Google Summer of Code 2016 is starting.
If you are a student please be patient. Your time will come soon, at which point we’ll be able to answer all your questions. In this initial phase the audience is project mentors. Note that you do not need to be a Gentoo developer to be a mentor.
While we are finalizing the application, we need all of you to submit your project ideas before the end of next week (February 19th). To do so you should go to this year’s idea page and follow the instructions in the “Ideas” section. If you proposed an idea last year and would like to propose it again for this year, you can look it up and add it. Or you can just tell us and we will do it for you. Don’t hesitate to add an idea even it isn’t totally fleshed out; we will help you fill in the blanks. A project represents 3 months of full-time work for a student. A good rule of thumb is that it should take you between 2 and 4 weeks to complete depending on how expert you are in the field. You can also have a look at last year’s idea page for examples.
If you would like to be a mentor for this year please tell us sooner rather than later. You can be a mentor following up with students while they’re working on their project, or you can be an expert-mentor in a specific field who will be called in to advise on an as-needed basis (or maybe never). We will also need people to help us review project proposals. In case you can help in any capacity don’t hesitate to contact us. GSoC is seriously fun!
If you want to reach us or have any questions about any of the above, the easiest way is to ping Calchan or rafaelmartins in the #gentoo-soc channel on Freenode.