INCF marks its 15th year anniversary as a Google Summer of Code mentor organization

We are happy to announce that INCF has been accepted to serve as a mentor organization in Google Summer of Code 2025 (GSoC) for the 15th year running!

INCF has participated as a GSoC mentoring organization since 2011, identifying and recruiting mentors from our community who volunteer to mentor one or more GSoC contributors in open source software development over the summer. Many core INCF community tools have been improved, extended, and made more interoperable as a result of GSoC (such as LORIS, The Virtual Brain, Open Source Brain, the Brian simulator and the Active Segmentation plugin for ImageJ - see more here). 

For GSoC 2025, tool developers in the INCF community have proposed 33 possible projects, covering a wide-array of neuroscience subdomains, that they would like to use to mentor GSoC contributors. Tell your friends and colleagues!

Info for GSoC applicants

All interested GSoC applicants are recommended to use our forum Neurostars to make their initial contact with project mentors. All project ideas are available in the GSoC category under the tag “gsoc2025”. Each project idea is a separate post. Please use the project posts to contact the mentors, and make sure to notify them in your comment by mentioning the username listed in the post. If you have questions, please contact @mathew (org admin) or @arnab1896 (co-org admin).

We have a Neurostars group for interested GSoC contributors - please apply to join it: GSoC_Contributors. We also recommend you to read Google’s helpful and informative GSoC Contributor guide.

Important links:

Project ideas list
Google Summer of Code 2025 Timeline
GSoC discussion forum on Neurostars
Google Summer of Code FAQ
Recommendations for GSoC contributors
Google Summer of Code guides for mentors and students