Anyone interested in participating in GSoC as an XSF student can join the MUC room, where various mentors will be available to answer questions and generally help. As such, there's two tiers involved - the XSF itself, which is responsible for catherding mentors to submit ideas, choosing students etc., and the software projects themselves that then mentor students. The XSF is (for GSoC) an umbrella organisation for various XMPP-related projects. ![]() It's what Google Talk uses, Whatsapp uses an XMPP-derivative protocol, Google Hangouts uses some aspects of XMPP internally, and as well as end-users it's used extensively by enterprises and governments. XMPP is an Internet protocol used in many fields, such as the Internet of Things, chat applications, voice and video calls, etc. ![]() The various dates for the programme can be found on the GSoC page Overview We will not know whether we're accepted until later in the year. The XSF is applying as a mentoring organisation for Google Summer of Code 2016.
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