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Call for project ideas and mentors for GSoC 2025

15 January 2025

INCF will apply to be a mentor organization in Google Summer of Code for the 15th time running. Want to join us?

We are now calling for open source software development project ideas with some sort of neuro connection - fixes or extensions to big/broadly applicable or small/niche tools used by neuroscience researchers, efforts and initiatives in the broad field of computational neuroscience. If your project supports security and AI/ML, we especially encourage you to apply!

Please note that there have been some changes to the program in recent years.

These are the conditions for the 2025 program:

  • Flexibility in project lengths: a project can run for a duration of 10-22 weeks. The standard length is 12 weeks, but projects can be planned for a longer duration at the start, and they can be extended (by the org admin) on request during the program

  • Choice of project time commitment: a project can be one of two sizes, either large (350 h) or medium (175 h). We welcome a mix of large and medium project sizes. To give us a good chance of achieving a good mix, everyone submitting at least two project ideas are asked to include both half-time and full-time projects (or at least one flexible project where the duration can be either large or medium, to be decided by mentor and contributor).

  • Contributions are open to students AND to beginners in open source software development

Important: Interested mentors need to contact us at gsoc@incf.org as early as possible with a declaration of interest and a short summary of the intended project. The deadline for expressions of interest is 24 January 2025. Full project descriptions need to be submitted by 7 February 2025.

Please note: Project ideas will be posted on the forum Neurostars.org after the Ideas list goes live, and prospective mentors are expected to join the forum and be available for questions from students during the run up to the announcement of mentor organizations (late February) and the student interactions period (late February - late March). This can be handled mostly by email, if you prefer, once you have set your NeuroStars account up.

Resources: Project idea submission template (can be downloaded in many formats)

For examples of previous projects, see the INCF Ideas lists for 2022 & 2021!