Hi Evan, Thanks again for the openness. For reference, Apache participates in GSoC through the ASF umbrella program:
- ASF GSoC page: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/COMDEV/GSoC - Google GSoC program overview: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/ <https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/?utm_source=chatgpt.com> Thanks as well to Yuvraj for sharing the mentor guide details. At a high level: - The ASF applies as an umbrella organization. - Individual projects list scoped ideas and identify mentors. - If selected, a student works for ~12 weeks. - Mentor involvement is typically periodic guidance and PR reviews (often a few hours per week). - The student is responsible for implementation, documentation, and evaluations. Best, Yousuf On Sat, 21 Feb 2026 at 00:33, Yuvraj <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Evan, > Google SoC is a very good programme to invite new contributors to an open > source project, it allows incentives for the mentee to learn and provides a > structure for the organization/project managers to dedicatedly mentor or > guide interested contributors to become full time members of the projects. > > This is an extract from the mentor guide: > ``` > Staying in touch > <https://community.apache.org/gsoc/guide-to-being-a-mentor.html#staying-in-touch> > > All mentors/prospective mentors *must* subscribe to > [email protected], our list for coordinating mentor > activities. This is where mentor specific issues are dealt with, and where > announcements will be made. > > We only accept subscriptions to mentors@ from addresses known to belong > to ASF committers, so please use your @apache.org address to subscribe if > possible, or at least an address that we can match to your @apache.org > address via the ASF’s private/committers/info or > private/committers/MailAlias.txt data. > > Once the ASF is confirmed as a mentoring organisation mentors must > register with the GSoC webapp, and request to become a mentor for the ASF > organization. Make sure that the email address you use for that (it’s often > your @gmail.com address by default) is ‘‘‘registered as a mail alias for > your Apache account at (https://id.apache.org)’’’ so that we can match it > to your ASF account. > > If you are interested in mentor programme administration please also > subscribe to [email protected]. > > If you are planning on mentoring as part of the GSoC programme you also > need to register with Google. See our GSoC > <https://community.apache.org/gsoc/> page for more information. > > How much effort is involved with being a mentor? > <https://community.apache.org/gsoc/guide-to-being-a-mentor.html#how-much-effort-is-involved-with-being-a-mentor> > > Most mentors spend between three and five hours per week with their > students. Most of this time is spent encouraging them. > > Within the ASF we like to think that the whole project community will help > the student, just as they would any other community member. If your project > is supportive in this way, you may be able to get away with spending less > time yourself. However, as mentor *you* are responsible for evaluating > the student and helping them deliver on their commitments. > > The GSoC Mentoring Guide > <https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/resources/guide#mentor_guide> > has plenty of useful materials for mentors. > > ``` > > You can learn more about it here: > https://community.apache.org/gsoc/guide-to-being-a-mentor.html > > Here is also the list of projects under apache that have submitted their > project ideas for GSoC 2026: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/COMDEV/GSoC+2026+Ideas+list > > > It does require a lot of effort from the maintainer side, but the process > can yield positive results for the project if the mentee continues to > contribute after the programme. > > Like Yousuf, I have also understood certain parts of the codebase well and > feel that I can work dedicatedly on improving that part. > > I would recommend that you see the requirements as outlined by Apache and > check the availability of mentors for GSoC, as it's not a small undertaking > and requires their time to review the mentee's work. > > > Sincerely, > > Yuvraj Singh Chauhan > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2026 at 11:48 PM Evan Rusackas <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Yusuf! >> >> Personally, I'm not really familiar with Google SoC. If the ASF is >> officially participating, and there's a "template" of how projects >> participate, I'd be curious to learn more. I'm also not sure what the >> obligations/benefits/expectations would be for the Superset maintainers to >> properly support it. In other words, if it's low overhead for us, brings >> more contributions/contribtors, and helps everyone, I'd love to learn more >> about it. >> >> Let us know all the relevant details (maybe they're part of your >> proposal?) >> and we can go from there! >> >> Thanks, >> >> Evan >> >> On Fri, Feb 20, 2026, 9:37 AM Yousuf Ansari <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > Hello Superset community, >> > >> > I have been contributing to Superset frontend recently, including work >> on >> > ECharts, deck.gl, and mixed-timeseries related fixes and improvements. >> I >> > am >> > interested in taking on a larger, structured frontend enhancement >> project. >> > >> > I wanted to check whether Apache Superset is planning to participate in >> > Google Summer of Code 2026 under the ASF umbrella. If there are any >> > discussions around this, if Superset plans to participate, I would be >> happy >> > to draft a proposal aligned ongoing frontend priorities. >> > >> > Thank you for your time. >> > >> > Best regards, >> > Yousuf Ansari >> > >> >
