Google Summer of Code 2023

I took part in GSoC in 2007, it change my whole life. Coming from Eastern Europe and with very little English it exposed me to experienced engineers from Silicon Valley that I would never think to contact. That lead to an internship at NASA a year after, and those references lead to a Ph.D. from Ivy League and a career in AI. That short acceptance letter turned to my life upside down and I can't be more grateful that Google is still doing it for another generation of engineers.

I was a Summer of Code student back in 2009, and it defined my career in software engineering, and completely changed the way I looked at building real world software.<p>Not directly, but being a GSoC student led to some interesting international travel and freelancing opportunities. I met many senior engineers who&#x27;d spent decades more than me (at that point) and was able to sit in on their discussions and meetings. I wasn&#x27;t even directly involved or responsible for anything, I was still a student... but just by osmosis, it shaped so many of my thoughts and opinions.

GSoC basically changed my entire career. I&#x27;m glad that Google keeps this running, especially given that they got rid of other cool competitions like Codejam. Hopefully, they can continue finding the budget for these extremely valuable contributions to open-source.

GSoC is awesome and I&#x27;m happy to see it&#x27;s still running.<p>The experience I got as a student in 2012 was invaluable for my career in tech ~ more so since I did not formally study CS. It introduced me to so much: a lot of the programming itself, collaborating with fellow developers.<p>I spent one year preparing for it, and man seeing my proposal accepted was one of the best feelings I have ever experienced (much better than when I graduated, even). A close second is knowing that I actually was helping people with my code (I still keep the emails where people sent me questions about the library API I was developing).<p>I hope this year&#x27;s (and future) batches of students get to experience the same (if not more) highs :).

Mixxx &lt;3<p>I don&#x27;t use it myself. But it&#x27;s good to see an open source solution in the DJ ecosystem. More and more DJ software go the monthly subscription route.<p>Oh BTW, if someone is bored: I think this library needs some RUST dev help: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Holzhaus&#x2F;rekordcrate&#x2F;pull&#x2F;71">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Holzhaus&#x2F;rekordcrate&#x2F;pull&#x2F;71</a> In theory, this library would allow open source project to write &quot;Pioneer rekordbox usb keys&quot; Pioneer hardware are used in a lot of clubs around the world and effectively need music files exported by Rekordbox. Would be cool to have 3rd party apps do this.

Looking for a student to add OpenWRT packages to OpenSuSE build Service (OBS), so that you can host your own packages:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;projects.freifunk.net&#x2F;#&#x2F;projects?project=openwrt_ppa_part_2&amp;lang=en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;projects.freifunk.net&#x2F;#&#x2F;projects?project=openwrt_ppa...</a>

GSoC is a remnant of the old Google. Glad to see it is still there.

Yay FreeBSD is there this year as well <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;summerofcode.withgoogle.com&#x2F;programs&#x2F;2023&#x2F;organizations&#x2F;the-freebsd-project" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;summerofcode.withgoogle.com&#x2F;programs&#x2F;2023&#x2F;organizati...</a>

Dumb question: is this only meant for students&#x2F;non-professionals?<p>It seems like a fun thing to do in retirement :)

Can I still take part in Summer of Code even though I have graduated college? When I graduated in December 2020 I did a bit of Help Desk work and then moved on to be a Systems Analyst, but I have been thinking pretty heavily on switching over to being a software engineer. Having this on my resume would absolutely help my prospects

It will be the forth year I will be mentoring projects \o&#x2F;. If someone is interested in contributing to KDE, we have a list of ideas here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;community.kde.org&#x2F;GSoC&#x2F;2023&#x2F;Ideas" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;community.kde.org&#x2F;GSoC&#x2F;2023&#x2F;Ideas</a>

Glad to see this is still going. I was sad to see CodeJam being shut down recently. We need more programs like GSoC and CJ as they encourage students to take a part of something great and contribute to the open source community.<p>My GSoC year was 2010 and it was definitely an amazing experience -- not just getting to meet and work alongside amazing community, but also to sharpen my software engineering skills, improve communication and have fun along the way.<p>If you&#x27;re a student, please find something interesting you&#x27;d like to work on and apply! Find where the folks hang out and reach out to them! They&#x27;ll be happy to help you get started! Back in the day we used irc.freenode.net as our communication hub for pretty much all OSS talk, but I am sure there are Slack or Discord servers now available for most projects.<p>Have fun!

I&#x27;m no longer student at a university (working) -- can I apply? are there any age restrictions?

I really wanted to do GSoC last year. However, I am in the Southern Hemisphere, and in contrast to the long Northern Hemisphere summer holiday, during this time we have a short winter holiday of only a few weeks. This year I still want to do it, but I have the same problem — April to August is simply not a workable time period for me.<p>Thus: does anyone know if there are similar initiatives to connect students with mentors, but with more flexible timing?<p>(Or, y’know, I guess I could just contact the people listed on the GSoC page informally… but it would be nice if there were something more organised!)

The first Summer of Code without Chris DiBona.

Some advices for a first timer? I&#x27;m considering sending a proposal to strace but I&#x27;m reading some part of the source code, (git-blaming around) but I don&#x27;t think I understand it enough to modify it ...

Summer of MediaPipe ;)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mediapipe.dev&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mediapipe.dev&#x2F;</a>

We should have more programs where large companies teach, mentor and tutor students while letting them work on something useful and tangible.

I participated in Google Summer of Code last year and had an amazing experience. I was able to work on an awesome project (ML for replacing heuristics in LLVM), met a ton of amazing people that I otherwise wouldn&#x27;t have come across, and gained a ton of SE experience, all while getting paid for it (something that might not have been an option outside of GSoC for someone fresh out of high school).<p>I now have an internship lined up for the summer due to the connections that I made and am working in a pretty exciting area of research. GSoC might have completely changed what I&#x27;ll be doing in the future and definitely was an amazing opportunity. I&#x27;m signed up as a mentor this year, so hopefully I can help provide some of that experience to someone else.

GSOC brings up so many emotions in me. 2 years of rejection at the proposal stage made my heart shrivel and weep as much as any ex-lover. The yearly ritual of going through the orgs and projects felt like ruffling through presents under a Christmas tree. My first acceptance in 2015 gave me joy, fame, glory among peers and immeasurable confidence. If only real world jobs could be as joyful.

Unrelated, but the navigation on this site is very confusing. How have we moved from standard top heads with links to a mystery meat navigation button in the top left that hides everything, with the header vertically oriented. So weird.

This looks awesome, wish I had a mentorship program like this while learning. I feel like I would still gain a lot of value from this but it seems like a full time commitment which I can&#x27;t do alongside work

I&#x27;m currently a cs masters student and write my thesis this summer (dont have a project yet). I wonder if I will be able to find a project in GSoC and write a thesis with a mentor ?

Is it socially acceptable to post comments in code review as a non-participant? There are some really cool projects listed for the org that I worked for last year.

How does it work? Can you partake in it even if you&#x27;re not a student?

OMG, I can&#x27;t believe Plone is still kicking. God, please, nobody work on that. It doesn&#x27;t need to exist any longer.

u have to start from earlier with jumping in between likely not gonna get, open there dev chat already 50 people for 4 position 8 will be mentor. They not gonna prefer outsider, from december stick around a lot then have best proposal likely gonna get.

I wonder how long it will last, especially considering that Google has killed its algorithm puzzle contests and replaced them with AI contests.<p>I imagine Google, like many tech companies, still depends on many Open Source projects and appreciates cheap labor, so it may be worth it to keep GSoC running for a while.

I loved summer of code and participated every year. Then one year they changed the system and all of a sudden it was no longer possible to submit in any language.<p>Like everything else by Google they had become boring. The best part of summer of code was always the interesting solutions in all kinds of languages.<p>I usually used Common Lisp for these problems, and even though I believe it&#x27;s supported, it&#x27;s just not fun anymore.