Hi, On Sun, Jan 19, 2025 at 11:13 AM Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > It is that time of year. GSoC Org Applications for 2025 are open now[1]. > They are due before Tuesday, February 11 at 1800 UTC. It's good to see > that few contributors have already started working on microprojects this > year :-) > > I could help as an Org Admin like previous years. I prefer not to > volunteer as a mentor this time owing to other commitments, though. Thanks for volunteering as an Org Admin and for this message! > There are no noticeable changes to the program this year. > > The GSoC contributor application period is March 24 - April 8, so > (co-)mentors and org admins are already welcome to volunteer. I am happy to mentor and to be Org Admin this year again. > As usual, > we also need project ideas to refresh our idea page from last year > (https://git.github.io/SoC-2024-Ideas/). Feel free to share your > thoughts and discuss. It would be great if we could come up with a good > mix of small, medium and large projects. It might be nice if we could refresh our microproject idea list too. Maybe we could add ideas related to removing the_repository or compiling with -Wsign-compare? > Do feel free to ask if there's anything that needs to be clarified. > > Just like previous year, there will be a GSoC Meetup in Brussels during > FOSDEM weekend on Saturday, February 1st in the evening. If you are > around, interested and haven't received the link to register directly > from Google, let me know so I can send it to you. Yeah, there might also be a GSoC Meetup in Madrid, Spain on Wednesday, January 29th. People interested should let us know so we can send them a link to an interest form they would have to complete. Best, Christian.
