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
Dear all,
the XMPP Standards Foundation once again plans to apply for the Google
Summer of Code 2024!
https://opensource.googleblog.com/2023/11/google-summer-of-code-2024-celebr…
Hereby, I call everyone interested to reach out and start planning their
participation. If you are interested please review:
- Read the mentoring guide or at least watch their Youtube videos:
https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/faq
- The time you can really spent as mentor:
https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline
- Your project runs under a OSI approved license:
https://opensource.org/licenses/
- You will require to register to Google's organization platform with an
Google account. However, you don't need a Google mail, just carefully
follow the steps.
- Communicate and reach out in your OWN community too.
- You and your students need to be available continuously through XMPP.
In the recent years I had the experience people being offline and were
not able to reach through their XMPP accounts sufficiently.
Regarding the latter, the stipend also has interest for community
bonding, also to XMPP in general. You shouldn't expect students to solve
difficult implementation unless you know them and their capabilities.
Application starts at Monday, 22nd January 2024, please have potential
ideas ready by then.
Changes to GSoC to this year for your interest:
- "Starting in 2024 we will have small (~90 hour projects), medium (~175
hr projects) and large (~350 hour) projects available to GSoC
contributors. Orgs should have medium and large projects available in
their Project Ideas lists. Small project ideas are not required for
orgs, but if the smaller size project works for your org they should be
included in your Organization’s Ideas List."
Find our wikipage for organization here:
https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Google_Summer_of_Code_2024
To edit the page, reach out to an XSF member to enter your input or
you’ll need a wiki account, which we’ll happily provide for you. Reach
out in the XSF public chatroom:
https://xmpp.org/chat#converse/room?jid=xsf@muc.xmpp.org
I am happy to hear from a backup org admin to help me here and there or
if I cannot make it due to other appointments. Basic organization skills
should be sufficient.
Let me know if you have further questions. Please join:
Cheers,
Eddie
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GSoC Administrator at XSF
