Anyone who is an active contributor to SymPy can be a GSoC mentor. If you were a successful GSoC contributor in the past, that is enough to be a mentor.
Aaron Meurer On Thu, Jan 22, 2026 at 10:51 AM Rushabh Mehta <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. -- 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/CAKgW%3D6JJ4q4rkvqQT6BaSsLprN_MECVwhYQAQ8EK12S9YbhKdQ%40mail.gmail.com.
