27 February: 1600 UTC

List of accepted mentoring organizations published on the Google Summer of Code 2017 site.

Interim Period:

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

20 March - 03 April

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.

Slot allocations published to mentoring organizations

May 4: 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.

30 May:

Students begin coding for their Google Summer of Code projects

30 June: 1600 UTC

Phase 1 Evaluation deadline; Google begins issuing student payments

17 August:

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

21 August - 29 August: 1600 UTC

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

29 August - September 5: 1600 UTC

Mentors submit final student evaluations.

6 September

Final results of Google Summer of Code 2015 announced

Late October

Mentor Summit at Google: