# GSOC 2017: NumFOCUS will be an umbrella organization

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/gsoc-2017-numfocus-will-be-an-umbrella-organization/1518
**Category:** Community
**Created:** [January 16, 2017, 3:15pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/gsoc-2017-numfocus-will-be-an-umbrella-organization/1518 "2017-01-16T15:15:39Z")
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### Author: ![kain88-de](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/kain88-de/32/473_2.png) [@kain88-de](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kain88-de)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2017, 3:15pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/gsoc-2017-numfocus-will-be-an-umbrella-organization/1518/1 "2017-01-16T15:15:39Z")

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Hi

Organizations can start submitting applications for Google Summer of Code  
2017 on January 19 (and the deadline is February 9)

> **[Google Summer of Code 2023 Timeline  |  Google for Developers](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline?hl=en)**

NumFOCUS will be applying again this year. If you want to work with us  
please let me know and if you apply as an organization yourself or under a  
different umbrella organization please tell me as well. If you participate  
with us it would be great if you start to add possible projects to the  
ideas page on github soon. We some general information for mentors on  
github.

> <https://github.com/numfocus/gsoc/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING-mentors.md>

We also have a template for ideas that might help. It lists the things  
Google likes to see.

> <https://github.com/numfocus/gsoc/blob/master/2017/ideas-list-skeleton.md>

In case you participated in earlier years with NumFOCUS there are some  
small changes this year. Raniere won’t be the admin this year. Instead I’m  
going to be the admin. We are also planning to include two explicit rules  
when a student should be failed, they have to communicate regularly and  
commit code into your development branch at the end of the summer.

best, Max

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### Author: ![ChrisRackauckas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/chrisrackauckas/32/77_2.png) [@ChrisRackauckas](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ChrisRackauckas)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2017, 5:34pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/gsoc-2017-numfocus-will-be-an-umbrella-organization/1518/2 "2017-01-16T17:34:17Z")

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I can’t find out how to register as a mentor. Is the link on the GSoC homepage still there? (It seems some of the materials may be out of date!)

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### Author: ![kain88-de](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/kain88-de/32/473_2.png) [@kain88-de](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kain88-de)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2017, 7:57pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/gsoc-2017-numfocus-will-be-an-umbrella-organization/1518/3 "2017-01-16T19:57:08Z")

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You can’t register as a mentor currently. Organizations apply from the 19 of January. Mentors can register after the accepted organizations have been announced.

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### Author: ![MikeInnes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mikeinnes/32/3656_2.png) [@MikeInnes](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/MikeInnes)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2017, 11:47am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/gsoc-2017-numfocus-will-be-an-umbrella-organization/1518/4 "2017-01-20T11:47:37Z")

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Hi Max, great to hear that NumFocus will be umbrella-ing this year. Julia will apply as a separate project as we have in previous years. Thanks for the useful links also – perhaps it’s a good idea to have templates of some sort for our own projects.

Is there anything we should do in this case, with regard to NumFocus?

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### Author: ![kain88-de](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/kain88-de/32/473_2.png) [@kain88-de](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kain88-de)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2017, 11:55am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/gsoc-2017-numfocus-will-be-an-umbrella-organization/1518/5 "2017-01-20T11:55:26Z")

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Just one thing. Please tell me where your project ideas are so that I  
can also link to them on our website. That would be great so people  
interesting in NumFOCUS projects know how to apply to all of them.

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### Author: ![ChrisRackauckas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/chrisrackauckas/32/77_2.png) [@ChrisRackauckas](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ChrisRackauckas)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2017, 11:56am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/gsoc-2017-numfocus-will-be-an-umbrella-organization/1518/6 "2017-01-20T11:56:26Z")

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> [@kain88-de](#):
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> Please tell me where your project ideas are so that I can also link to them on our website.

[http://julialang.org/soc/ideas-page](http://julialang.org/soc/ideas-page)