Google Summer of Code 2025 Mentor Summit
52°North has been participating in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) for many years now. This year we mentored two projects, one in the context of KomMonitor and the other in the context of our Weather Routing Tool.
Each GSoC season traditionally concludes with the GSoC Mentor Summit. This year it took place from October 23rd to 25th at the Munich Marriott Hotel, Germany. As a first-time mentor, I was eager to meet many mentors and org admins from open-source projects around the world and experience an “unconference” meeting. It was impressive to see the wide range of organizations participating in the summit (133 in total).
Apart from opening sessions and lightning talks, the schedule consisted mainly of sessions thath the participants could suggest and lead by themselves. Topics could be pinned as sticky notes on the session boards (see pictures). If you are interested in the discussions, you can find the session notes online.
Almost as old as GSoC itself is the chocolate table, which was a complete chocolate room this year. We followed the food prints on the floor to find it!
Overall, the Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit was a great experience, and I hope to participate again in the upcoming years. A big “thank you” goes out to the entire Google Summer of Code team for making this inspiring event possible!
