GSoC 2026 participation and mentorship

[Homeier, Derek]

Hi all,

it’s been some years since Astropy has last hosted a project in the Google Summer of Code
(https://openastronomy.org/gsoc/gsoc2021/#/projects), but there has been regular interest
in Astropy-related topics in the OpenAstronomy matrix and sometimes in our Slack.
The deadline for 2025 proposals has already passed, but we would like to probe interest in
mentoring projects for 2026. See also
https://github.com/OpenAstronomy/openastronomy.github.io/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed
for more recent examples of applications.

Another potential source of ideas could be Open Science Labs https://opensciencelabs.org/opportunities/gsoc/

who have partnered with pyOpenSci.
If you think you may have a project in mind that you could mentor over a time of 3-3½ months

during ~ May-August 2026, please 

– reply on the list or

– per comment or simple reaction to
   https://github.com/astropy/astropy-project/issues/430#issuecomment-2678603371

so we may put this on the agenda for the Coordination Meeting.

For the CoCo

Derek