As the last blog post of the year, this article summarize the main events that happened during the past twelve months inside of the XWiki project. ...

XWiki has been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2016. Since its inception in 2005, the program has brought together over 10,900 successful student participants from over 103 countries worldwide and over 500 open source organizations, all for the love of code. This is our 9th time participating in the program and we are pretty excited about it. We value the participation in the program since it allows us to meet and discuss ideas with smart students from around the world. ...

XWiki has been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2013.

Google Summer of Code is a global program that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source software projects. We work with many open source, free software, and technology-related groups to identify and fund projects over a three month period. Since its inception in 2005, the program has brought together nearly 6,000 successful student participants and over 3000 mentors from over 100 countries worldwide, all for the love of code. 

This is our 8th year participating in the program and we are pretty excited about it. We value the participation in the program since it allows us to meet and discuss ideas with smart students from around the world. The past years brought great results, such as the WebDAV and RESTful remote access APIs, the Office importer, and the whole XEclipse project, just to name a few.

This year we're proposing a lot of interesting projects, from Live Notifications to XCLAMS Federated Servers, beside our regular mentors also having the support of mentors from the XCLAMS community.

The student application period will last from April 22 until May 3, 19:00 UTC. Students interested in applying for a project with XWiki should:

• read the Google Summer of Code FAQ;
• read the XWiki specific guideline;
• look at the list of suggested projects and pick one or more favorite projects, or come up with a new project idea;
• start interacting with the community on the IRC channel;
• introduce themselves and their view of the selected project on the developers mailing list;
• apply as a student on the GSoC official site.

Let's work together with the community to make this a great Summer of Code!

This summer, Google organizes the seventh edition of the Google Summer of Code program:

 Google Summer of Code is a global program that offers students stipends to write code for open source projects. We have worked with the open source community to identify and fund exciting projects for the upcoming summer.

A participant in GSoC since the first edition in 2005, XWiki was left out of the program last year to make way for newer and smaller open source projects, but is back as a mentoring organization this year, and we're ready to give a few lucky students a chance to learn how real world, open source development works in the middle of our wonderful community.

With five years of experience as a GSoC organization, our developers are seasoned mentors, ready to guide students through the entire process. Some students are already mixing in with the developers on our IRC channel, or introducing themselves and their project proposals on the mailing lists. We're very happy to meet and discuss ideas with these interesting students, and we can't wait to see what these collaborations can lead to, since every year we've had great results, such as the WebDAV and RESTful remote access APIs, the Office importer, and the whole XEclipse project, just to name a few.

This year we're proposing a lot of interesting projects, from hard core java to clientside javascript projects, and from mobile devices to the cloud. Of course, the poster child of our GSoC experiences, XEclipse, is ready to receive further improvements, and application development on top of XWiki is also present in this year's proposals.

The student application period just started and lasts until April 8th, 19:00 UTC. Students interested in applying for a project with XWiki should:

• read the Google Summer of Code FAQ
• read the XWiki specific guideline
• look at the list of suggested projects and pick one or more favorite projects, or come up with a new project idea
• start interacting with the community on the IRC channel
• introduce themselves and their view of the selected project on the developers mailing list
• apply as a student on the GSoC official site

Let's work together to make this a great Summer of Code!

The XWiki project has been accepted as a Google Summer of Code 2009 organization. This is the fifth time in a row we're accepted (we've been participating since the beginning) and we're proud of it.

We've started gathering project ideas on the XWiki GSOC page. If you have project ideas or are interested to participate feel free to send us an email on the XWiki Mailing list. ...

We're delighted that Google has given us 10 slots for GSOC 2008 and we're delighted to have received so many students proposals (all of very good quality - the selection process was hard this year). ...

Google decided to extend the student registration period in order to allow more students to apply, since most organizations reported (on the private mentors mailing list and on the program's IRC channel) that the number of applications is generally smaller than previous years. At the same time, the quality of the proposals seems to have improved for most organizations.

How do things look for XWiki? ...

GSoC 2007 selection is now done. Google has kindly allocated us 7 slots. The following students have been selected ...

Good news, XWiki has been accepted by Google as a participating organization for GSoC 2007!

So far we have 17 projects we're proposing to students. Now the next step is to find bright students interested in implementing them. The idea is that Google will pay these students to get to learn how Open Source works by paticipating to some real Open Source projects. ...