<div dir="ltr">Forwarding a message from Google ...<br><br><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><span id="m_5074865152024687997docs-internal-guid-71b2d9c8-ba1b-0045-2b7b-ec4ba34c31a5"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hello Mentors and Org Admins,</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We are pleased to announce </span><a href="http://g.co/gsoc" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Google Summer of Code 2018</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, the 14th consecutive  year of the program.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We have <a href="https://opensource.googleblog.com/2017/09/announcing-google-summer-of-code-2018.html" target="_blank">announced</a> the main dates (org apps open, etc.) on the program </span><a href="https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">timeline</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. Additional dates will be added into the timeline later in 2017 after some conversations at the Mentor Summit with mentors and incorporating their feedback.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Organizations -- If you would like to apply for the 2018 program please start thinking about the projects you would like students to work on and also reach out to your community members to ask if they would like to be mentors for the program. Having a thorough and well thought out list of Project Ideas is the most important part of your application. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please note that Org applications will open on January 4th. This is earlier than in previous years as it allows for a longer time between the orgs announced date (February 12th)  and the opening of student applications (March 12th). This was a request we received from a significant number of students and mentors this year. We hope the additional time will allow students to better communicate with the orgs they are interested in and will help orgs find the best student matches for their organizations for the summer. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We are looking forward to another exciting year of GSoC!</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Last week we also announced the </span><a href="http://g.co/gci" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Google Code-in 2017</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (GCI) contest for 13-17 year old students. GCI is open for past GSoC mentoring organizations to apply to be a part of this exciting contest from October 9th - October 24th. We are also giving GCI orgs over a month to enter their tasks into the webapp, hopefully this will help them prepare for the busy winter contest. GCI opens for student participants on November 28th! You can read more about the program on our </span><a href="https://opensource.googleblog.com/2017/09/announcing-google-code-in-2017.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">blog</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For any questions about the programs please email us at <a href="mailto:gsoc-support@google.com" target="_blank">gsoc-support@google.com</a></span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wra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