Hello, Google Summer of Code (aka GSoC) 2020 yesterday started accepting Organization Applications. I believe the last year was very successful and so think that we want to take part again this year again. I'll be happy to volunteer to be the main Org Admin for GCC again (so let me know if you think I shouldn't or that someone else should, but otherwise I'll assume that I probably will). The deadline to apply is February 5th, so in the next three weeks we need to work on our project ideas and have a list of willing mentors.
Therefore, first and foremost, I would like to ask all (moderately) seasoned GCC contributors to consider mentoring a student this year and ideally also come up with a project that they would like to lead. I'm collecting proposal on our wiki page https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/SummerOfCode - feel free to add yours to the top list there. Or, if you are unsure, post your offer and project idea as a reply here to the mailing list. Eventually each developed project should have a) a project title/description b) more detailed description of the project (2-5 sentences) c) expected outcomes d) skills required/preferred and e) possible mentors [1]. Project ideas that come without an offer to also mentor them are always fun to discuss, by all means feel free to reply to this email with yours and I will attempt to find a mentor, but please be aware that we can only use the suggestion it if we actually find one. Everybody in the GCC community is invited to go over https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/SummerOfCode and remove any outdated or otherwise bad project suggestions and help improve viable ones which are not yet viable. I would especially want to ask GFortran and libstdc++ people to do so. Finally, please continue helping (prospective) students figure stuff out about GCC like you always do. So far I think all of them enjoyed working with us, even if many sometimes struggled with GCC's complexity. More information together with GSoC 2020 time line is available at https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com Thank you, let's hope we attract some good young talent again this year. Martin [1] https://google.github.io/gsocguides/mentor/defining-a-project-ideas-list