2022 Google Summer of Code

[brianwarner]

We received an email a few days ago that the GSoC application period for open source projects will be Feb 7 - Feb 21.

If this is something we want to participate in as the OpenJS Foundation, we'll need to assemble the following:

• A list of ideas
• Mentors matched to the ideas
• Answers to the short answer questions on the application

This year projects can be for 175 hours or 350 hours. This corresponds roughly to five or nine weeks, plus a three week bonding period between student acceptance and the beginning of the work.

I'd like to recommend the following process. Please add any ideas or indicate willingness to be a mentor in comments on this thread prior to February 7. If we have enough ideas (per Google, at least four) and paired mentors on February 7th to form a viable application, I will assemble the suggestions into an ideas page and submit the application prior to the program deadline.

Here are some reference documents regarding GSoC:

• Mentor guide
• How to define an ideas list
• What makes a good mentor?

Finally, I know some projects apply to GSoC directly. This is of course wonderful and encouraged, especially if you have an internal process for matching ideas with mentors. The intent of this particular thread is to organize interest from any projects that don't plan to apply on their own and would like to use Foundation resources to help coordinate this process.

Ideas

If you have a project idea, here's a template with the questions we'll need to answer on the application:

### Project title/description

### More detailed description of the project (2-5 sentences)

### Expected outcomes

### Skills required/preferred

### Possible mentors 

### Expected size of project (175 or 350 hour)

### Difficulty (easy, medium, hard)

Mentoring

If you're willing to be a lead mentor or co-mentor for an idea someone else proposed, please add a comment to this thread and link to the idea you'd like to help with.

If you do volunteer, please ensure you can provide whatever level of mentorship you've offered should the idea be funded. This is to ensure we can meet our commitments to the students and to the program.

If you have any questions, please ask!

[brianwarner]

The application and decision period has passed for 2022, so I'll close this for now. Thank you!