GSOC 2017

Welcome to Google Summer of Code 2017

This page will aim to be a general informational page for students, mentors and others interested in Joomla's Google Summer of Code Program.

Joomla GSoC Admins 2017: Puneet Kala (Lead), Sandra Decoux, Yves Hoppe

GSoC 2017 is over. Go to GSoC 2018 for news!

What is GSoC?

Google Summer of Code is a program run by Google for college students interested in getting a stipend to contribute to FOSS projects. They will spend there summer with improving and writing new features for the project. Visit the Google Summer of Code site to learn more.

Last years projects:

Google Summer of Code for Joomla! Project 2016

Information For Students

CMS or Framework?

Joomla developers are currently working on multiple projects: the Joomla CMS (Version 3.7 (Q2 2017), Version 3.8 (2017) and Version 4 (2017-2018). Additionally there are many side projects related to testing, Docker, core extensions and other projects.

The CMS is the very popular and well known FOSS content management system. The Framework existed within the CMS as a tightly coupled set of utility packages and classes. Eventually developers decided they wanted to work with just those utilities and write new applications not coupled to the CMS. The Joomla Issue Tracker is the first Application built on top of the new Joomla Framework and is currently nearing it's first stable release.

The project supports all of these initiatives, as does Google Summer of Code. On our ideas list you will find projects related.

Project Timeline

GSoC 2017 Timeline is available on the GSoC Site, we suggest you to go through it GSoC-17 Timelines

Project Proposal

Please check the GSoC Student Application Template to understand what we are expecting from your proposal.

Information for Mentors

Want to be a mentor? Please check the GSoC Mentor Guidelines.
GSoC 2017 Mentors Selection Criteria