Hi,
the Linux Foundation will apply again as mentoring organization in this year's
Google Summer of Code.
Note that in the GSoC 2025 security-related projects and projects about AI/ML
are especially welcomed by the organizers at Google.
All the rest is as last year, especially allowance of open source newcomers and
not only students and flexibility with the end of the coding period and the 3
project sizes, large (350h), medium (175h), and small (90h).
On January 27, 2025 (in 12 days) the application period for mentoring
organizations for the Google Summer of Code 2025 will start.
To be successful, we need a rich project idea list so that we will get selected
by Google.
I have set up a page for project ideas for the Linux Foundation's participation
in the Google Summer of Code 2025:
https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/gsoc/google-summer-code-2025
Please add your ideas to the sub-page of your work group. Also remove project
ideas which are already done in one of the previous years or not needed any more
and make sure that all contact info is up-to-date and all links are working.
At each idea please tell for which project size (Large (350h), Medium (175h),
Small (90h)) it is intended, the level of difficulty (Easy, Intermediate, Hard),
and mark clearly your security-related and AI/ML-related project ideas (with
something like "**SECURITY**", "**AI**", "**ML**").
Having security and AI/ML project ideas and also a not only large-sized projects
raises our chances to get accepted.
Make sure to not talk about "students", but about "contributors" instead. I
have, at least partially, taken care of this when I have copied your sub-group
pages from last year.
Also make sure to remove the "**TO BE UPDATED**" phrase after having updated
your project ideas.
If you have problems mail me with your project ideas and other editing wishes.
The ideas list is in the Linux Foundation Wiki. If you want to edit and did not
have the edit rights already from previous years, please tell me and I give you
edit rights. I need your name and e-mail address for that. If you have an
account at the Linux Foundation, use preferably that e-mail address, but having
an account at the Linux Foundation is not required.
Please also take into account that the deadline for our application as mentoring
organization is Feb 11 and after that Google will evaluate the applications. So
have your ideas (at least most of them, ideas can be posted up to the
contributor application deadline) in by then to raise our chances to get accepted.
Please also tell us if you do not want to participate any more with your
workgroup, so that we can remove your sub-page.
Till
