Google Summer of Code Application 2025

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Application Status

Accepted as Mentor Org (Updated Feb 27, 2025)

On-going (OSGeo's application submitted on February 10, 2025)

Timeline: https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline

Old applications

Profile

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The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to foster global adoption of open geospatial technology by being an inclusive software foundation devoted to an open philosophy and participatory community-driven development.<br/><br/>

OSGeo serves as an umbrella organization for the Open Source Geospatial community in general and several code projects in particular:<br/>
* <b>Web Mapping</b>: deegree, geomajas, GeoMOOSE, GeoServer, Mapbender, MapFish, MapGuide Open Source, MapServer, OpenLayers.<br/>
* <b>Desktop Applications</b>: GRASS GIS, gvSIG, Marble, QGIS.<br/>
* <b>Geospatial Libraries</b>: FDO, GDAL/OGR, GEOS, GeoTools, OSSIM, PostGIS.<br/>
* <b>Metadata Catalogues</b>: GeoNetwork, pycsw.<br/>
* <b>Content Management Systems</b>: GeoNode.<br/>
* <b>Community Projects</b>: pgRouting, istSOS, MetaCRS, Opticks, Orfeo ToolBox (OTB), PyWPS, Team Engine, ZOO-Project.<br/>
* <b>Other (non-code) Projects</b>: GeoForAll (Education and Curriculum), OSGeoLive DVD, Public Geospatial Data.<br/><br/>

We host regional and international FOSS4G conferences with typical attendance of 500-1100+ geospatial developers, industry and government leaders, and researchers. Our mailing lists collectively go out to ~ 30,000 unique subscribers.

Questionnaire

  • Why does your org want to participate in Google Summer of Code?: The OSGeo is now a veteran GSoC organization (2025 would be our 19th year participating), and it has been a tremendous journey. The previous editions of GSoC for OSGeo have motivated new great developers, as well as GSoC mentors (we have graduated 230+ developers in total through the GSoC program) to contribute towards the development of open-source geospatial projects. Three of the previous GSoC students with OSGeo are currently serving as the GSoC Org Admins for OSGeo and one of them is serving on the Board of Directors.

In the past years, the majority of the accepted projects successfully completed their objectives, and continuing this spirit, the OSGeo community is excited to take this forward in 2025 by supporting new developers in their summer projects. OSGeo, acting as an umbrella organization has also tightened the connection with guest software projects (Open Source projects involved with making maps and geospatial data processing but are not yet officially part of OSGeo). We are highly enthusiastic about our participation in GSoC 2025 and definitely look forward to another geospatial GSoC!

  • What would your org consider to be a successful GSoC program?: The OSGeo foundation believes in encouraging contributors to enhance their acumen for working in a team environment, managing different time schedules, understanding community interactions, presenting their work in conferences (In 2021 and 2022, all the selected GSoC developers presented their work in a special session of the global FOSS4G 2021 conference - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjgghz_EzWQ), and primarily contributing to leading geospatial tools.

So, a successful GSoC program with OSGeo would comprise new feature development along with guiding the developers to be future leaders of the open-source geospatial community and open source world, in general.

  • How will you keep mentors engaged with their students?: The Mentors for OSGeo GSoC projects have significant prior experience of GSoC, either as a past contributor, as a mentor, or an experienced member of the project community. In order to maintain consistency and availability, 3 mentors (2 primary & a backup) are required for every project. Usually, the mentors are regular (code) contributors and/or experts in their field, and are enthusiastic to inspire the students in becoming open source geospatial developers. The weekly report submitted by the students is evaluated by the mentors and the Org Admins regularly. An efficient communication channel exists between students, mentors, and the admins, and all the details are frequently summarised in the openly accessible wiki page (https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_Administrative) throughout the GSoC timeline.
  • How will you keep your GSoC contributors on schedule to complete their projects?: We have created a student application template for the interested students in participating at the GSoC with OSGeo and it is available at https://github.com/OSGeo/gsoc/blob/master/proposal_template.md. The student application template puts a strong emphasis on the timeline of the project and the expected weekly commitment (in hours) of the contributor. In order to stick to this timeline, it is important for the students to have a clear picture of the project and divide it into smaller and achievable tasks. After mentors evaluation of the projects based on the timeline mentioned, the Org Admins keep track of the project's progress by evaluating the weekly reports. Based on this, the contributors can adjust the timeline and their weekly commitment with the help of their mentors. We have published a Google Summer of Code Recommendations wiki for Students and is available online at https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_Recommendations_for_Students
  • How will you get your GSoC Contributors involved in your community during GSoC?: Over the years, the OSGeo foundation has developed into a great community and the contributors joining the community for GSoC become an inherent part of it. Every participating contributor is encouraged to share the proposal with the relevant software developer communities for getting feedback and comments about the same. The contributors are required to send weekly reports to the project developer mailing lists along with the GSoC mailing list for necessary feedback. Prior to the commencement of the Coding period, the Community Bonding period plays a significant role in comforting the contributor with the development environment and helping them with the work culture of the project community. We aim to foster closer communication by engaging all our contributors, developers, and community mentors through an accessible osgeo-gsoc channel. Through this we hope to expose students to collaborative problem solving, sharing experiences, and encouraging different perspectives within the open-source geospatial community.
  • Anything else we should know? (Optional): The OSGeo foundation is very appreciative of the GSoC, to help give students an introduction to the sharing, fun, and passion throughout Open Source communities. We proudly talk about the GSoC program at our various FOSS4G events and international conferences.

From the last couple of years, all the selected GSoC developers presented their work in a special session of the global FOSS4G conference. Also, the OSGeo Org Admins Team highlighted the journey of GSoC with OSGeo. As a part of our appreciation to the efforts of Google Open Source and the Google GSoC Team, we are sharing the links to the sessions.

Link 1 (Contributor presentations): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjgghz_EzWQ Link 2 (Org Admins presentation): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Flr1tcrcAvE

We participated in the inaugural GSoD 2019 and also in the Google Code-in which successfully helped in inspiring the young students to craft them as the future leaders of the geospatial industry. And most of all: it's super fun!

  • Is your organization part of any government: No
  • Has your org been accepted as a mentoring org in Google Summer of Code before? yes
  • Which years did your org participate in GSoC?: from 2007 onwards
  • What is your success/fail rate per year?

Year: pass/total 

 2024: 7/7
 2023: 7/7
 2022: 6/7
 2021: 12/12
 2020: 10/10
 2019: 7/7
 2018: 10/13
 2017: 13/15
 2016: 20/22
 2015: 13/13
 2014: 22/23
 2013: 21/22 
 2012: 20/22 
 2011: 19/21 
 2010: 7/10 
 2009: 17/20 
 2008: 15/19 
 2007: 13/19

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