Dear XMPP Community,
Google has announced their stipend program for 2026.
https://opensource.googleblog.com/2025/12/shape-future-with-google-summer-o…
In this regard, the XSF is considering to apply as umbrella organisation
again. To do so, we would expect the community and its projects to come
up with good and interesting ideas.
Hence, if you are interested to participate and until we come with more
details, please start thinking about your potential participation and
also communicating in your community to find also potential candidates
that contribute.
A good start is to read Google's resources:
https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/resources/
You can also join our GSoC XMPP chat: https://xmpp.org/chat?gsoc
Kind regards,
Eddie
GSoC Org Administrator
Dear all,
the XSF will planning to apply this year again for the GSoC 2025.
If we will be accepted as an umbrella organisation, that acts as supervising/reference organisation for your XMPP projects we recommend to act quickly and start preparing your project if you want to participate with your project. This means usually:
- Read the guidelines: https://google.github.io/gsocguides/student/
- Read the setup and what you need to provide for last year: https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Google_Summer_of_Code_2024
- Collect feasible ideas for newcomers (!) (they unlikely will implement A/V or MUC, not even close)
- Promote and search for potential contributors (even if you are not participating you can help)
Remember that this is not just a great opportunity for your project and project community. It's also a good chance for XMPP as a whole network, ecosystem as well as inspiring people around open-source development.
If you want to help me organising and promoting for this you are also very welcome!
I'm general, reach out to me by next week if you have interest and can think of ideas. The earlier the better.
If I don't hear back, I will not consider to apply this year.
(Remember that the XSF has not yet been approved to participate in GSoC 2025.)
Kind regards,
Eddie
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XSF Org Admin, GSoC 2025
Hi all,
The XSF infrastructure team is planning to move our mailman installation
from a dedicated machine to a cloud service. When doing so, we also plan
to delete some lists that are no longer in use or that could be replaced
with chatrooms. Do we feel the need to keep this list for GSoC-related
coordination, or could we use a chatroom instead?
Peter
Hi everyone,
I really want to do google summer of code with xmpp and i was planning to
work on my application the previous week. (I already discussed with link
mauve the possibility of him being my mentor), but I got sick and have been
in the hospital since the 21.
I'm better now but I wanted to know if i could still apply today.?
All the best,
Akiapo Thierry Errol
