GSoC 26: Application Period Closing Soon, Next Steps

[Federico Capoano]

Hi Everyone!

I am forwarding this message from the OpenWISP GSoC List, you can follow that list for more updates on the participation of OpenWISP in the Google Summer of Code 2026.

Thanks for your participation and patience!
We've been avalanched with pull requests and applications to review and it's hard to keep up with everyone.

Github Discussions

I took some time to reply to questions in the Github Discussion Forum.
If you have doubts, I encourage you to ask more questions there.

Submit Your Application ASAP

Edit Before Deadline: You can edit your proposal as many times as you wish before the application deadline.
Submit Early for Feedback: It is strongly recommended to submit a draft early. Mentors can view the submitted proposal, provide feedback, and allow you to make it stronger before the final deadline.
Replacement Proposals: If you need to make major changes, you can submit a new proposal, which will replace the previous one up until the deadline.
After the Deadline: Once the application deadline passes, you generally cannot make changes to the proposal, as it is locked for review by organizations.

Support the Community: GitHub Stars & Participation

I have insisted a lot with this in the dev chat.

Applying to GSoC without interacting with the rest of the community and supporting the project shows that the applicant hasn't understood the spirit of this program and the spirit of open source communities.

The spirit of Open Source is to share our work and help one another whenever possible.

OpenWISP needs active community members, people that will help us propel the project forward and mentor new contributors in the future.

Starring our pinned repositories on Github is a free way to support OpenWISP. If you haven't done this, it suggests you are either not reading these communications or actively ignoring them, which doesn't look good.

Interacting with other participants and offering help whenever possible is also encouraged because mentors and maintainers cannot always respond to every chat message, issue comment, GitHub discussion, email, or pull request. We have almost 300 open pull requests, reviewing and testing each one takes hours.

Having fellow community members who can lend a helping hand can really make a difference.

I hope this helps, let's follow up via the dev chat.

Best regards

Federico Capoano

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