gsoc

The Kotlin Foundation has been accepted as a mentor organization for Google Summer of Code 2024! 

GSoC is a global online program focused on bringing new contributors into open-source software development. Contributors work on a 12-week programming project under the guidance of Kotlin Foundation mentors from Google, Gradle, and JetBrains.

What does this mean for you? 

As a potential contributor, this is your chance to explore open-source development with Kotlin. If you are a student or a beginner, GSoC offers an opportunity to work on meaningful projects, gain hands-on experience, and connect with mentors from the Kotlin community.

Why participate? 

By joining us for GSoC 2024, you’ll have the chance to:

• Gain real-world development experience and enhance technical skills.
• Contribute to a real Kotlin project with a global impact and play a part in expanding the Kotlin ecosystem.
• Learn from experienced mentors and connect with the Kotlin community.
• Receive a stipend and build your resume.

How do I get started?

• Explore the exciting projects we have lined up and check out our GSoC guidelines.
• Find a project that interests you and send questions to the potential mentors in Slack to prepare your application.
• Between March 18 and April 2, apply via the GSoC website. Don’t forget to include a code sample and tell us why you’re passionate about Kotlin!

Resources

• Check out the program announcement and GSoC FAQ.
• Get to know the Kotlin open-source community and explore the general Kotlin contribution guidelines.
• Refer to the GSoC contributor guidelines.
• Join the Kotlinlang #gsoc Slack channel.

Project ideas

Here’s a sneak peek at the projects we have in store this year:

• Incremental compilation for the Kotlin-to-WebAssembly compiler
• Compose Multiplatform with Node.js native bindings for Skia
• Compose Multiplatform component gallery generator
• Kotlin DSL improvements for declarative Gradle
• Kotlin DSL documentation samples test framework
• Gradle build server – support for Android projects
• Implement memory usage profiling for Kotlin/Native benchmarks
• Support Android target in kotlinx-benchmark
• Enabling click-to-run for kotlinx-benchmark benchmarks in IntelliJ IDEA

Read more about the projects

Thank you for your interest in Google Summer of Code with Kotlin. Let’s make this summer a memorable one for Kotlin!

2023 marked Kotlin’s first-ever participation in Google Summer of Code (GSoC), a global online program focused on bringing new contributors into open-source development. Contributors worked on 12-week programming projects with the Kotlin Foundation under the guidance of mentors from JetBrains, Google, and Gradle, and gained experience on real-world projects. We would like to share the results achieved during GSoC 2023.

We kicked off the program in March with a lineup of diverse projects, which reflected the versatility of Kotlin’s applications, and a call for proposals:

• Kotlin Multiplatform protobufs
• Kotlin Compiler error messages
• Groovy to Kotlin Gradle DSL converter
• Eclipse Gradle KTS editing
• Improve support for parameter forwarding in the Kotlin plugin for IntelliJ IDEA
• Enhance the kotlinx-benchmark library API and user experience
• Parallel stacks for Kotlin Coroutines in the debugger

We received 65 high-quality proposals from potential contributors.

After careful evaluation, mentors and organization admins selected the top 5 contributors to work on projects that promised to make a significant impact on the Kotlin community. Halfway through the program, one of the selected contributors withdrew from the “Improve support for parameter forwarding in the Kotlin plugin for IntelliJ IDEA” project, so the final list shrank to 4 projects.

Here is the final list of projects that we worked on last summer, along with reviews from mentors and contributors:

Kotlin Multiplatform library version of Flogger

Enhance the kotlinx-benchmark library API and user experience

Eclipse Gradle KTS editing

Parallel stacks for Kotlin coroutines in the debugger

We’re grateful to everyone who participated in Google Summer of Code with the Kotlin Foundation. We are determined to make participating in GSoC a tradition.

Thank you for being a part of this journey with us!