Google Summer of Code - Call for Mentors

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.

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