Google will be running this year the 10th edition of Summer of Code.
Mozilla has had the pleasure of participating every year so far, and we
are hoping to participate again this year. In the next 3 weeks, we need
to prepare a list of suitable projects to support our application.
Can you think of a 3-month coding project you would love to guide a student through? This is your chance to get a student
focusing on it for 3 months! Summer of Code is a great opportunity to introduce new people to
your team and have them work on
projects you care about but that aren't on the critical path to shipping your next release.
Here are the conditions for the projects:
- completing the project should take roughly 3 months of effort;
- any part of the Mozilla project (Firefox, Firefox OS, Thunderbird, Instantbird, SeaMonkey, Bugzilla, L10n, NSS, IT, and many more) can submit ideas, as long as they require coding work;
- there is a clearly identified mentor who can guide the student through the project.
If
you have an idea, please put it on the Brainstorming page, which is our
idea development scratchpad. Please read the instructions at the top –
following them vastly increases your chances of your idea getting added
to the formal Ideas page.
The deadline to submit project ideas and help us be selected by Google is February 14th.
Please feel free to discuss with me any Summer of Code question you may have.