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Welcome to Joomla Google Summer of Code 2018

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 2018: Puneet Kala (Lead), Sandra Decoux, Yves Hoppe

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.

• Google Summer of Code Timeline
• Github Work Flow for GSoC Students and Mentors
• GSoC Team on Joomla Volunteers Portal

Last years projects:

• Google Summer of Code for Joomla! Project 2016

Information For Students

• Joomla's project idea list
• GSoC Student Selection Criteria
• GSoC Student Application Template
• Joomla GSoC Mailing List
• General Joomla CMS Developer Mailing List
• Joomla Framework Mailing List

Information For Mentors and Proposals

• GSoC 2018 Idea submission form
• GSOC Ideas Selection Criteria

General information

• Github Work Flow for GSoC Students and Mentors

CMS or Framework?

Joomla developers are currently working on multiple projects: the Joomla CMS 3.x Version and 4.0.0 (2018-2019). 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 powering currently 3.2% of the internet. 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 2018 time line is available on the GSoC Site, we suggest you to go through it GSoC-18 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 Mentors Selection Criteria
  

Related Articles

Google Summer of Code 2017:

• Joomla GSoC 2017 students blog articles.

Google Summer of Code 2016:

• GSoC: Every Story Has An Ending. Every Ending Is A New Beginning.
• The brains behind the Joomla! GSoC projects
• Interview with one of the 2016 students Ruchiranga Wickramasinghe
• Joomla's Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is Proud to Announce Team Lead: Puneet Kala
• Joomla! has been selected as a Google Summer of Code 2016 mentor organization
• Joomla! is going to the 2016 Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit
• Articles on Joomla Community Magazine