Google Summer of Code at 52°North

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Google Summer of Code, shorter but informally also called GSoC, is a program that offers student developers stipends to write code for open source projects. 52°North participates in the program as a mentoring organisation with project ideas from all communities to connect with prospective developers of our Open Source software from all over the world and to advance promising software products with new features.

GSoC Website:

• Current Google GSoC Website
• Archived Google GSoC pages (2009 - 2015)

Project Ideas

The lists of project ideas:

• GSoC2021ProjectIdeas (internal only at the moment)
• GSoC2020ProjectIdeas

52°North participation in GSoC

• GSoC 2020 - successful participation.
• GSoC 2019 - successful participation.
• GSoC 2018 - successful participation.
• GSoC 2017 - successful participation.
• GSoC 2016 - successful participation.
• GSoC 2015 - successful participation.
• GSoC 2014 - successful participation.
• GSoC 2013 - successful participation.
• GSoC 2012 - successful participation.
• GSoC 2008 - applied but not accepted.

Projects

All projects conducted within the Google Summer of Code program:

• GSoC2020Projects
• GSoC2019Projects
• GSoC2018Projects
• GSoC2017Projects
• GSoC2016Projects
• GSoC2015Projects
• GSoC2014Projects
• GSoC2013Projects
• GSoC2012Projects

Information for Mentors, Students, 52°North community members, partner organisations, ...

• Guidelines for students and mentors during GSoC: GSoCGuidelines
• GSoC for 52°North Partners and Communities
• GSoC at 52°North for Mentors
• GSoC at 52°North for Students
• GSoC at 52°North for Org Admins
• GSoC at 52°North - internal

Contact

Mailing list: [[http://list.52north.org/mailman/listinfo/gsoc][gsoc-52n@52north.org]

Discussion of topics, contact to potential mentors > community mailing lists: http://52north.org/resources/mailing-list-and-forums/

Chat: irc://chat.freenode.net/52north ( What is IRC?) (Update 2020-02-27, IRC is not our first choice of communication, as we are often occupied otherwise during the day. Email is the safest way to get a response)

Calendar: https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=hsfctb5fienjeinu71id6pcfpg%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=Europe/Berlin (contact the org admins to get write access)

The 52°North organization administrators for GSoC are Arne de Wall (a.dewall@52north.org) and Benjamin Pross (b.pross@52north.org). Please feel free to contact them with any questions and give them feedback on how the program works from your point of view.