The Mifos Initiative was accepted as a mentoring org for the 2024 Google Summer of Code. We are continuing to update and refine our list of ideas and assigned mentors. Attend our AMA on March 7 at 1500GMT. Applications open up on March 18.

2024 Summer of Code Timeline

Please see Google Summer of Code website for the full program timeline. Here are a few key dates and their current status:

Date	Event	Status
06 February: 1800 UTC	Mentoring organization application deadline	ACCEPTED AS MENTORING ORG
21 February: 1800 UTC	List of accepted mentoring organizations published on the Google Summer of Code site.
Interim Period: 22 February - 18 March	Potential GSoC contributors discuss application ideas with mentoring organizations
18 Mar - 2 Apr 1800 UTC	GSoC contributor application period
2 April: 1800 UTC	GSoC contributor application deadline
Application Review Period: 4 Apr - 24 Apr	Mentoring organizations review and rank proposals; GSoC contributor proposal rankings due from Org Admins
1 May: 1800 UTC	Accepted proposals announced on the Google Summer of Code site.
Community Bonding Period: 1 May - 26 May	Community Bonding Period \| GSoC contributors get to know mentors, read documentation, get up to speed to begin working on their projects
27 May	Coding officially begins
12 July 1800 UTC	Midterm evaluation deadline (standard coding period)
Work Period: 12 July - 19 August	GSoC contributors work on their project with guidance from Mentors
19 Aug - 26 Aug: 1800 UTC	Final Week: GSoC contributors submit their final work product and their final mentor evaluation (standard coding period)
26 Aug - 02 Sept: 1800 UTC	Mentors submit final GSoC contributor evaluations (standard coding period)
3 Sept	Initial results of Google Summer of Code 2023 announced
3 Sept - 04 Nov:	GSoC contributors with extended timelines continue coding
04 Nov: 1800 UTC	Final date for all GSoC contributors to submit their final work product
11 Nov: 1800 UTC	Final date for mentors to submit evaluations for GSoC contributor projects with extended deadlines

2024 Interns

Student	Mentor	Location	Time Zone

Parth Kaushal	Victor Romero / Nasser Kaze	India	IST (GMT +5:30)

Recaps from Past GSOC

We documented their incredible summer in several posts to our blog:

2020 GSOC Intro: https://mifos.org/blog/gsoc-2020/
2019 GSOC Wrap-up: https://mifos.org/blog/2019-gsoc-wrap-up/
2019 GSOC Intro Part 1: https://mifos.org/blog/gsoc-2019/
2019 GSOC Intro Part 2: https://mifos.org/blog/fun-facts-about-our-google-summer-of-code-interns-2019/
2018 GSOC Wrap-Up: https://mifos.org/blog/2018-google-summer-of-code-wrap-up/
2018 GSOC Reflections: https://mifos.org/blog/2018-google-summer-of-code-reflections/
2018 GSOC Intro Part 1: https://mifos.org/blog/meet-the-2018-gsoc-interns/
2018 GSOC Intro Part 2: https://mifos.org/blog/fun-facts-google-summer-code-interns/

Some posts from previous years as well and all our GSOC/GCI posts:

2017 GSOC Wrap-Up - http://mifos.org/blog/2017-google-summer-of-code-wrap-up/
2017 GSOC Reflections - http://mifos.org/blog/2017-mifos-gsoc-reflections/
2017 Mentor Summit - http://mifos.org/blog/2017-gsoc-mentor-summit/
2017 Intro Part 1 - http://mifos.org/blog/2017-mifos-gsoc-welcome/
2017 Intro Part 2 - http://mifos.org/blog/fun-facts-gsoc-2017/
2016 GSOC Wrap-Up: http://mifos.org/blog/2016-google-summer-code-wrap/
Fun Facts about our 2016 interns: http://mifos.org/blog/fun-fact-gsoc/
Intro Post for 2016 GSOC interns: http://mifos.org/blog/2016-mifos-google-summer-of-code/