Date
Event
Status
12 February:
List of accepted mentoring organizations published on the Google Summer of Code 2018 site.
Interim Period: February 12 - March 12
Would-be students discuss project ideas with potential mentoring organizations.
12 March - 27 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.
Slot allocations published to mentoring organizations
April 23: 1600 UTC
Accepted student proposals announced on the Google Summer of Code 2016 site.
Students get to know mentors, read documentation, get up to speed to begin working on their projects.
14 May:
Students begin coding for their Google Summer of Code projects
15 June: 1600 UTC
Phase 1 Evaluation deadline; Google begins issuing student payments
6 August - 14 August: 1600 UTC
Final week: Students submit their final work product and their final mentor evaluation
14 August - 21 August: 1600 UTC
Mentors submit final student evaluations.
22 August
Final results of Google Summer of Code 2018 announced
October