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 ___________________________ XSF Org Admin, GSoC 2025