Hi, +1 for participating in GSOC.
With the refinement of the IoTDB core and the enrichment of its interfaces, there will be a lot of upstream and downstream ecosystems to build, such as data collection, data visualization, and data migration tools. Jialin Qiao Pengcheng Zheng <[email protected]> 于2026年1月23日周五 21:10写道： > > Hi IoTDB community, > > I would like to propose that Apache IoTDB participate in Google Summer of > Code (GSoC) 2026 under the Apache Software Foundation. > > GSoC is a long-running program sponsored by Google that aims to bring new > contributors into open-source communities through mentored summer projects. > The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is registered as a mentoring > organization for GSoC, and Apache projects can participate by proposing > project ideas and providing mentors, following the ASF GSoC process [1]. > > From the IoTDB perspective, participating in GSoC could be a good > opportunity to: > - Attract and mentor new contributors, especially students and early-career > developers > - Improve parts of the IoTDB ecosystem that are suitable for well-scoped, > mentored projects > - Increase IoTDB’s visibility within the broader open-source and academic > communities > > According to the ASF GSoC guidelines, project participation involves > identifying mentors, preparing an ideas list, and coordinating with ASF > ComDev using the shared GSoC infrastructure: > - Guide to being a mentor [2] > - Using the ComDev GSoC issue tracker [3] > > At this stage, I would like to gather feedback from the community on this > proposal. If there is consensus to proceed, the next steps would be to > identify potential mentors, prepare a small set of project ideas, and > formally coordinate with ASF ComDev. > > I would appreciate comments and feedback from the community, especially > from PMC members and committers. > > > [1] https://community.apache.org/gsoc/ > [2] https://community.apache.org/gsoc/guide-to-being-a-mentor.html > [3] > https://community.apache.org/gsoc/use-the-comdev-gsoc-issue-tracker-for-gsoc-tasks.html > > > Best regards, > Pengcheng
