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Overview

Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a global, online program focused on bringing new contributors into open source software development. GSoC Contributors work with an open source organization on a 12+ week programming project under the guidance of mentors. Gradle has participated in GSoC since 2023.

GSoC 2024#

Gradle participated in GSoC 2024 under the umbrellas of the Kotlin Foundation and the Eclipse Foundation. We started with 3 projects, but two of them didn't pass the midterm evaluation.

Completed projects:

Aborted projects:

Communication channels#

Project channels:

Coordination:

Mid-Term Project Demos#

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For Contributors/Mentees#

See the project descriptions for references to particular newcomer-friendly issues or learning scenarios. If nothing is available there, it is recommended to start learning Gradle basics, if you aren't already familiar with them. Then, we recommend looking into some of the newcomer-friendly issues in the target project or in Gradle as whole. Prior track of contributions during the application phase is important during the project proposal reviews, because it helps us to build impression about the candidate.

To get started:

  1. Join the #gsoc channel on the Gradle community Slack. If there are such channels in the foundations, please join them too
  2. Explore the Getting Started with Gradle and the relevant topic-specific Gradle Guides
  3. Check out the contributing guidelines, try addressing some of the newcomer friendly issues
  4. Discuss the project ideas with your mentors on the public channels

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For Mentors#

We invite Gradle community members, if they are interested in mentoring, to submit their project ideas.

Mentoring requires a time commitment of several hours a week. It is a great opportunity to have someone prototyping your idea that it is not on the short term roadmap but remains interesting to you and valuable to the Gradle community.

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Archive#

Previous Years#