[Debian-salsa-ci] Salsa CI allotted two GSoC students for summer 2025

[Ahmed Siam]

On Thu, May 8, 2025 at 11:30 PM Otto Kekäläinen <otto at debian.org> wrote:
>
> Hi all!
>
> Great news! We had two excellent GSoC candidates who many of you have
> already seen in Salsa CI issues and elsewhere, and we managed to
> showcase their work and proposals well enough to Google that these
> were announced today as selected:
>
> Aayush: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2025/projects/YTXVewUk
> Aquila: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2025/projects/mmwLagR0
>

Great \o/

I don't think that Google program admins really read the proposals based
on my understanding of this article[1] but I guess the accuracy of this
information isn't important now.

> I will be spending part of my Debian time this summer to mentor them,
> and Emmanuel is also helping. In case you missed it, I am trying out
> for a while doing Debian stuff full-time
> (https://optimizedbyotto.com/post/full-time-open-source-developer/).
> Nice to see all starts aligned for a great Salsa CI summer!

Good Luck!

> All 9 accepted Debian GSoC students are listed at
> https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2025/organizations/debian
>
> - Otto
>
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[1] https://google.github.io/gsocguides/mentor/selecting-students-and-mentors

- Ahmed