Can I be a mentor this year and a contributor in later years?

[Kishan Ved]

Hello all,

I have successfully contributed to GSoC 2024. For GSoC 2025, I wish to be a mentor of the project that I contributed to. However, I would also like to be a contributor for future GSoC programs (from 2026 ... ), as an individual is allowed to participate in GSoC twice. Hence, I wanted to know if I can be a mentor this year and a contributor later.

Thanks,
Kishan Ved,

GSoC 2024, NumFOCUS

[Stephanie]

I have successfully contributed to GSoC 2024. For GSoC 2025, I wish to be a mentor of the project that I contributed to. However, I would also like to be a contributor for future GSoC programs (from 2026 ... ), as an individual is allowed to participate in GSoC twice. Hence, I wanted to know if I can be a mentor this year and a contributor later.

Generally no. You must be a student or a beginner in open source to be part of GSOC. Once you become a mentor you generally won't be considered a beginner. So if you were still a student after being a mentor you could in theory do GSoC but you would not be eligible to be a contributor with the same org you were a mentor with.\

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[Kishan Ved]

Hi, 

Just to clarify, I want to become a mentor for the NumFOCUS org in 2025 and I want to contribute to another org's project in 2026 (where I will be a beginner). Is that allowed? 

Thanks,

Kishan

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[Stephanie Taylor]

Hello,

Just to clarify, I want to become a mentor for the NumFOCUS org in 2025 and I want to contribute to another org's project in 2026 (where I will be a beginner). Is that allowed? 

You would not be a beginner in 2026 in open source if you are a mentor in 2025. It doesn't matter if you would be a beginner to that org, it's about being a beginner to open source for the eligibility. 

 

Thanks,

Kishan

On Sun, 19 Jan, 2025, 3:14 am 'Stephanie' via Google Summer of Code Discuss, <google-summer-...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

I have successfully contributed to GSoC 2024. For GSoC 2025, I wish to be a mentor of the project that I contributed to. However, I would also like to be a contributor for future GSoC programs (from 2026 ... ), as an individual is allowed to participate in GSoC twice. Hence, I wanted to know if I can be a mentor this year and a contributor later.

Generally no. You must be a student or a beginner in open source to be part of GSOC. Once you become a mentor you generally won't be considered a beginner. So if you were still a student after being a mentor you could in theory do GSoC but you would not be eligible to be a contributor with the same org you were a mentor with.\

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[Jeandre Kruger]

On Sunday, January 19, 2025 at 6:54:48 PM UTC+13 Stephanie Taylor wrote:

Hello,

Just to clarify, I want to become a mentor for the NumFOCUS org in 2025 and I want to contribute to another org's project in 2026 (where I will be a beginner). Is that allowed? 

You would not be a beginner in 2026 in open source if you are a mentor in 2025. It doesn't matter if you would be a beginner to that org, it's about being a beginner to open source for the eligibility.

So for Kishan, that would be yes to contributing to another org in 2026 if and only if Kishan is still a student in 2026, due to no longer being a beginner?

[Stephanie Taylor]

Just to clarify, I want to become a mentor for the NumFOCUS org in 2025 and I want to contribute to another org's project in 2026 (where I will be a beginner). Is that allowed? 

You would not be a beginner in 2026 in open source if you are a mentor in 2025. It doesn't matter if you would be a beginner to that org, it's about being a beginner to open source for the eligibility.

So for Kishan, that would be yes to contributing to another org in 2026 if and only if Kishan is still a student in 2026, due to no longer being a beginner?

 

Correct.