Seeking mentors and project ideas for Google Summer of Code 2025!

[armanbilge]

tl;dr

• we're applying for Google Summer of Code 2025 🎉 due Feb 11
• if you would like to be involved with mentoring contributors (even if only a little), please let me know!
• if you have project ideas for Typelevel org or affiliate projects (or even an inkling of an idea), let's talk!

I want our application to reflect that Typelevel is vibrant with a culture of teaching and learning together. If you are active on GitHub and/or Discord, then you are already a de facto mentor in our community :) so please consider adding your name to our application ❤️

Ideally each of our projects will have a couple primary mentors and some number of additional supporting mentors.

• Primary mentors have good knowledge of the project and are available to contributors for 2–3 hours a week over the coding period June–August e.g. pair-programming, PR review, chat.
• Supporting mentors are interested in the project and want to help out when and where they can :)

We have an Ideas page that you can contribute to.

Further reading:

• Official Mentoring Guide from Google
• Typelevel Blog Post by our 2024 contributor @Chingles2404, reflecting on her experience

Why mentor?

1. It is rewarding to help grow the diversity of our open source community. The results of the 2023 Scala Survey suggest we currently skew heavily towards advanced, long-time Scala developers. Let's change that together :)

2. GSoC contributors Get Shit Done. Check out the past projects, which made sophisticated and impactful contributions to the Typelevel ecosystem.

3. Make friendships with other Typelevel developers. Helping to mentor a contributor is also wonderful opportunity to hang out with and get to know better your fellow mentors! In addition, last year we organized two virtual meetups to welcome our contributors and give them the opportunity to share their work with the community.

4. Raise money for Typelevel. Google will pay Typelevel a small stipend for every contributor that we mentor.