On what grounds can a GSoC contributor from last year be considered for a mentoring position this year?
On Thursday, 22 January 2026 at 23:18:27 UTC+5:30 [email protected] wrote: > Organization applications are open for GSoC. > > We need to update the ideas page. > https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/GSoC-Ideas. Feel free to delete > old ideas that are no longer relevant or add new ones. > > We also need a rough count of mentors. If you are able to mentor > please add your name to the potential mentors list, and if you can no > longer mentor please remove it. I encourage anyone who was a > contributor last year to consider mentoring this year. > https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/GSoC-Ideas#potential-mentors > > Finally, Google has issued some guidance about using AI for > applications. Basically, different orgs feel differently about it so > we need to have an explicit policy. > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jglptdn_DovOxjwuhzORn3QhYoeBcToS7ymk3IIWHKY/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.ib59d98mnz6q > . > We should then update the template > https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/GSoC-Application-Template. My > suggestion would be to have a policy that LLMs are not allowed to be > used when writing the application, except for use for > translation/cleaning up the grammar of the text. > > Aaron Meurer > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/69459b99-5892-41f5-8271-2334729b8518n%40googlegroups.com.
