29 February: 1900 UTC

List of accepted mentoring organizations published on the Google Summer of Code 2016 site.

Interim Period:

Would-be students discuss project ideas with potential mentoring organizations.

14 March - 25 March

Student application period

Interim Period:

Mentoring organizations review and rank student proposals; where necessary, mentoring organizations may request further proposal detail from the student applicant.

15 April:

Slot allocations published to mentoring organizations

18 April:

1. All mentors must be signed up and all student proposals matched with a mentor

2. Student acceptance choice deadline.

22 April: 1600 UTC

Accepted student proposals announced on the Google Summer of Code 2016 site.

Community Bonding Period:

Students get to know mentors, read documentation, get up to speed to begin working on their projects.

23 May:

Students begin coding for their Google Summer of Code projects

27 June: 1900 UTC

Mid-term evaluations deadline

17 August:

Suggested 'pencils down' date. Take a week to scrub code, write tests, improve documentation, etc.

15 August - 23 August: 1900 UTC

Students tidy code, write tests, improve documentation and submit their code sample. Students also submit their final mentor evaluation.

29 August: 1900 UTC

Mentors submit final student evaluations.

30 August:

Final results of Google Summer of Code 2015 announced

Late October

Mentor Summit at Google: