GSoC 2022 accepted Contributors announced!

May is here and we’re pleased to announce the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) Contributors for 2022. Our 196 mentoring organizations have spent the last few weeks making the difficult decisions on which applicants they will be mentoring this year as GSoC Contributors.

Some notable results from this year’s application period:

• Over 4,000 applicants from 96 countries
• 5,155 proposals submitted
• 1,209 GSoC contributors accepted from 62 countries
• 1,882 mentors and organization administrators

For the next few weeks our GSoC 2022 Contributors will be actively engaging with their new open source community and learning the ins and outs of how their new community works. Mentors will help guide them through the documentation and processes the community uses as well as helping the GSoC Contributors with planning their milestones and projects for the summer. This Community Bonding period helps familiarize the GSoC Contributors with the languages and tools they will need to successfully complete their projects. Coding begins June 13th and for most folks will wrap up September 5th, however this year GSoC Contributors can request a longer coding period wrapping up their projects by mid November.

Thank you to all the applicants who reached out to our mentoring organizations to learn more about the work they do and for the time they spent crafting their project proposals. We hope you all learned more about open source and maybe even found a community you want to contribute to even outside of GSoC. Staying connected with the community or reaching out to other organizations is a great way to set the stage for future opportunities. Open source communities are always looking for new, excited contributors to bring fresh perspectives and ideas to the table. We hope you connect with an open source community or apply to a future GSoC.

There are many changes to this 18th year of GSoC and we are excited to see how our GSoC Contributors and mentoring organizations take advantage of these adjustments. A big thank you to all our mentors and organization administrators who make this program so special.

GSoC Contributors—have fun this summer and keep learning! Your mentors and community members have dozens and in some cases, hundreds of years of experience, let them share their knowledge with you and help you become awesome open source contributors!

By Stephanie Taylor, Google Open Source

Google Summer of Code 2022 is open for mentor organization applications!

We are excited to announce that open source projects and organizations can now apply to participate as mentoring organizations in the 2022 Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program. Applications for organizations will close Monday, February 21 at 10am PT.

As 2022 begins, so does our 18th edition of Google Summer of Code! With our new updates to the program, we look forward to welcoming not just students, but new and beginner open source contributors over 18 years old into our GSoC community. With increased flexibility in the length of the projects—now offering 175 and 350-hour projects—and the ability to extend the program from the standard 12 weeks to 22 weeks, we hope to spur the interest of more potential GSoC contributors.

Does your open source project want to learn more about becoming a mentor organization? Visit the program site and read the mentor guide to learn what it means to be a mentoring organization and how to prepare your community (hint: have plenty of excited mentors and well thought out project ideas!).

We welcome all types of organizations and are very eager to involve first-timers with a 2022 goal of welcoming 30+ new orgs into GSoC. We encourage new organizations to get a referral from experienced organizations that think they would be a good fit to participate in GSoC.

The open source projects that participate in GSoC as mentor organizations do all kinds of interesting work in security, cloud, development tools, science, medicine, data, and media for example. Projects can be relatively new (about 2 years old) to well established projects that started over 20 years ago. We welcome open source projects big and small and everything in between.

One thing to remember is that open source projects wishing to apply need to have a solid community. While you don’t have to have 50+ community members, the project also can’t have as few as 3 people; the goal of GSoC is to bring new contributors into communities and there should be an established community for them to join.

You can apply to be a mentor organization for GSoC starting today on the program site. The deadline to apply is February 21st at 10am PT. We will publicly announce the organizations chosen for GSoC 2022 on March 7th.

Please visit the program site for more information on how to apply and review the detailed timeline for important deadlines. We also encourage you to check out the Mentor Guide and our short video on why open source projects are excited to be a part of the GSoC program.

Good luck to all open source mentoring organization applicants!

By Stephanie Taylor, Google Open Source

A milestone to celebrate: 10 years of GCI!

 

This year we celebrated the best of program milestones—10 years of bringing together 13-17 year old students from around the world into open source software development with our Google Code-in (GCI) contest. The contest wrapped up in January with our largest numbers ever; 3,566 students from 76 countries completed an impressive 20,840 tasks during the 7-week contest!

Students spent their time working online with mentors from 29 open source organizations that provided help to answer questions and guide students throughout the contest. The students wrote code, edited and created documentation, designed UI elements and logos, and conducted research. Additionally, they developed videos to teach others about open source software and found (and fixed!) hundreds of bugs.

Overview

• 2,605 students completed three or more tasks (earning a Google Code-in 2019 t-shirt)
• 18.5% of students were girls
• 79.8% of students were first time participants in GCI (same percentage as in 2018- weird!)
• We saw very large increases in the number of students from Japan, Mongolia, Sri Lanka, and Taiwan.

Student Age

Participating Schools

School Name	Number of Student Participants	Country
Dunman High School	138	Singapore
Liceul Teoretic ''Aurel Vlaicu''	47	Romania
Indus E.M High School	46	India
Sacred Heart Convent Senior Secondary School	34	India
Ananda College	29	Sri Lanka

Students from 1,900 schools (yes, exactly 1,900!) competed in this year’s contest; plus, 273 students were homeschooled. Many students learn about GCI from their friends or teachers and continue to spread the word to their classmates. This year the top five schools that had the most students with completed tasks were:

Countries

The chart below displays the top 10 countries with students who completed at least 1 task.

We are thrilled that Google Code-in was so popular this year!

Thank you again to the people who make this program possible: the 895 mentors—from 59 countries—that guided students through the program and welcomed them into their open source communities.

By Stephanie Taylor, Google Open Source