I’m happy to announce that mnemosyne systems will help with mentorship in Google Summer of Code 2026 under the PostgreSQL umbrella.
What is Google Summer of Code ?
Google Summer of Code is basically a mentorship program for the selected Open Source projects.
You will get to work on a specific task where you can use your mentor to get feedback on your work.
In the end, you have developed a feature or an enhancement that will be in the next version of the project.
What will you learn ?
Google Summer of Code will teach you navigate in an Open Source community and make contributions that will be a new feature or an enhancement to an existing one.
Furthermore, you will learn
- How to communicate in the community
- Improve your code quality
- Create test cases and documentation to cover your work
- Come up with ideas
- Get deeper and deeper into the code
- Help others with their work
and finally, find like-minded people and mentors.
The PostgreSQL projects are described here
Conclusion
Google Summer of Code 2026 has started.
However, keep in mind that not all projects will be approved in the end. And, there will be multiple applications for each project.
But, the spirit of Google Summer of Code is about mentorship.
You may not get a slot in Google Summer of Code, but by contributing to an Open Source community will make you a part of it. You will share your ideas, code, help others and be proud of your work.
Find a community where you feel accepted and your code is valued.
Thanks for your time !