I’m happy to announce that TYPO3 has been accepted as a mentoring organization in Google Summer of Code 2013. This is the 4th year we participate. Congrats to all accepted organizations, and a big thanks to everyone who helped to make this happen for TYPO3!
Students. Now that you have a list of accepted organizations, it’s time to start working on your proposal. The TYPO3 community maintains an<link http: wiki.typo3.org gsoc2013 ideas> ideas page which is an excellent starting point, and we also created <link http: wiki.typo3.org gsoc2013 application_template>a student application template.
You can come up with your own idea or base your proposal on something from the ideas page, but either way it’s very important that you get feedback from the team you wish to work with well before the submissions deadline. If you have general questions about getting involved with TYPO3 as a Google Summer of Code student you’re welcome to ask on our IRC channel #typo3-gsoc on Freenode, or join our <link http: forum.typo3.org index.php f>GSoC forum on forum.typo3.org. For questions about a specific idea please contact the relevant team (subproject) directly.
Keep an eye on the<link http: www.google-melange.com gsoc events google gsoc2013> official Google Summer of Code timeline. Time passes quickly.
Mentors. Now that we know that TYPO3 has been accepted, it’s time to get ready to mentor some students. If you wish to be a mentor your next steps should be:
For questions you can reach the admin team in #typo3-gsoc-mentors on Freenode or at <link>gsoc@typo3.org.
And most importantly, in the following weeks you’ll be contacted by prospective students with questions and feedback requests for their proposals. It might take a bit of time and you might get questions with very obvious answers. Please be patient and keep an eye on the timeline.
On behalf of the GSoC2013 admin team, Tobias Liebig, Christian Müller and Ben van 't Ende
