ARC ❤ Google Summer of Code

Google Summer of Code (GSoC) accepted organisations were announced yesterday, and many of us in ARC and friends from other departments are involved in this year’s edition.

Google has been running this programme for 20 years, making this one its 21st. GSoC focuses on helping Open Source projects get new contributors so they can learn about open source while getting paid a good stipend over the summer. We encourage everyone to participate as a contributor or mentor in this amazing programme; after all, the work carried out as part of the programme is very gratifying.

The organisations where ARC or friends are involved are the following:

• The Neuroinformatics Unit with Sofía Miñano, Adam Tyson, Alessandro Felder, Niko Sirmpilatze, Joe Ziminski and Igor Tatarnikov  – This is their NIU ideas page.
• CERN-HSF umbrella with Chris Gutschow – HSF ideas page
• NumFOCUS with Saransh Chopra – NumFOCUS ideas page
• OpenAstronomy with David Pérez-Suárez, Mosè Giordano and David Stansby are or have been involved in the past – OpenAstronomy ideas page

Besides these teams and groups, we are also aware of other people in UCL involved with GSoC like:

• The International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility with people from Neuro, Physiology & Pharmacology for the Open Source Brain like Padraig Gleeson and Ankur Sinha with NeuroML, PyNN and Open Source Brain

Are you also participating in GSoC at UCL, and we don’t know about you? Let us know so we can add you to the list!

Would you like to know more about GSoC, or even participate on it? Join us on our GSoC info event that we will be running in two weeks (either in-person or online).