Re: Git in GSoC 2025

From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 20, 2025, 08:19 UTC
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD3PkyaQBLYPryePk=e54VtsQwjbyvvTsKEBFJnns_jZyg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <8c8e8797-8de9-4684-94a0-f6c17a592dc5@gmail.com>

Hi,

On Sun, Jan 19, 2025 at 11:13 AM Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com> wrote:

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> 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.

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> 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?

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> 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.