Google Summer of Code and Go

[Sparsh]

  Hey gophers,

Recently, I've had a few enquiries about Google Summer of Code 2025 and the Go project.

If you're not familiar with GSoc: https://developers.google.com/open-source/soc/

In previous years we have abstained from participating because none of the Go team at Google have had the spare the time to mentor a student.

However, it's been suggested that perhaps some members of Go community might like to mentor a GSoC student. These people should be familiar with the Go core's codebase and conventions. For example, anyone with the commit bit is definitely a good mentor candidate.

If you are interested in mentoring, please reply here. Please note that it is a considerable time commitment.

Once we have mentors, we need to think about projects. A good GSoC project is something that may be started and finished within the three month period. Potential work areas include libraries (either in the core or for sub-repos), tools (vet?), documentation, and - for the particularly clever students - runtime or compiler work.

If you have any project suggestions, please reply here.

Any questions you might have about GSoC may be answered by their FAQs: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2013/help_page