Hi ComDev Team, I'm Ram, a CS student from Bangalore. I'm planning to apply for GSoC 2026 and am targeting *Apache Beam* and *Apache DataFusion-Python*.
I have already started contributing to the ecosystem: - *Kafka:* Merged PR [https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/20778], Unmerged PR [https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/21355] - *DataFusion:* Merged PR [https://github.com/apache/datafusion/pull/18427] - *Beam:* Raised 3 issues [https://github.com/apache/beam/issues/37575 https://github.com/apache/beam/issues/3757 https://github.com/apache/beam/issues/3756] Brian Proffitt suggested I reach out here for guidance on the 2026 coordination. Are there specific mentors or project ideas I should look into for Beam/DataFusion-Python that align with the 2026 focus? Thank you, Ram
