Dear OSGeo GSoC 2026 Contributors,
We hope you are having a great time interacting with your project community and getting to know about the projects!
Thanks for following the instructions [1] and introducing yourselves here. We see that many of you have also created your project wiki page and updated the GSoC 2026 Accepted Contributor’s wiki page with your details [2].
Please make sure that the wiki page URL directs to the wiki for your own project and that the repository is correctly linked to the repository where you will be working. The idea is that clicking on the wiki page URL in the future should lead to the page containing a summary of your project, pull request(s), and your week-by-week progress during the GSoC 2026 program. You can create your project wiki page on either the OSGeo wiki or GitHub wiki, with the former being recommended.
If you have not done any of this yet, please do it as early as possible. It is a key task of the Community Bonding period and could lead to discontinuation of the project, if not completed. Additionally, don’t forget to hyperlink your OSGeo User Profile in the “Contributor” column of the Accepted Proposals wiki page.
The Community Bonding period concludes on May 25, and it is expected from all of you to send the community bonding report before May 28 end-of-the-day. It would be good to send it ASAP and not wait until the last moment — sending it before the coding period starts would be the best. We understand that this is short notice, hence we are giving an additional three days buffer to send the report.
The Coding Period officially begins next week. Please note that every week, Sunday is the deadline for sharing your weekly reports on the Google Summer of Code discourse category [3], and it is important to send them on time rather than wait for results and send them with delay. The report should be sent to this category and updated on your Project Wiki page even if you did not perform any coding.
To ensure timely submission, we encourage you to prepare your report in advance, have it reviewed by your mentors, and share it on the Discourse category promptly. If applicable, you may also send it to your project’s mailing list or discourse (for example, [4]). For more details on what to include in your weekly reports, please refer to [5]. For sample Community Bonding Report and
Weekly Report, you can refer [6] and [7].
Happy Coding!
Thanks & Best wishes,
OSGeo GSoC Administration Team
[2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2026_Accepted
[3] https://discourse.osgeo.org/c/initiatives/gsoc
[4] https://discourse.osgeo.org/c/pgrouting/pgrouting-dev/
[6] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/soc/2021-June/004681.html
[7] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/soc/2021-June/004690.html