TLDR: GSoC 2025 has kicked off, and the OSRF is once again hosting projects. If you have a project and want to mentor someone, please get in touch by emailing gsoc@openrobotics.org!
The Open Source Robotics Foundation is planning on participating in Google Summer of Code 2025. We are now putting out a call for mentors. We need people to volunteer to mentor one or more projects and participants throughout the GSoC period.
By being a GSoC mentor, you will be contributing to a large technical contribution to one of the OSRF’s projects, but more importantly you will be contributing to the growth in expertise and experience of a new engineer! Being a mentor is very rewarding work, and we have seen many of our previous GSoC participants go on to be important long-term members of the community and long-term contributors.
Information on what it takes to be a mentor can be found on the GSoC website:
If you are interested in mentoring a GSoC participant this year, then please get in touch by emailing us at gsoc@openrobotics.org! Please describe why you want to mentor with the OSRF, what qualifies you to be a mentor, and what projects you wish to offer. For each project, please include the following information, in this bullet-list format.
- List of prerequisites
- Description of necessary programming skills
- Difficulty level
- List of potential mentors
- Expected size
- Expected outcome
- Detailed description
For examples of projects that the OSRF has hosted in previous years, take a look at this page.
We are open to mentors until February 9th, 2025 at 18:00 UTC.