Did you know Drupal was accepted into Google Summer of Code 2017 and that Drupal selected 8 projects? In other words, Google is funding 8 people to contribute to Drupal for 10 weeks worth ~$40,000 USD (thank you Google!). Congratulations to selected students who collectively became one of the top 20 contributing organizations on drupal.org (list @ https://www.drupal.org/organizations). Proud to note that all GSoC 2017 students have already become core contributors!

Majority of projects are focused on work related to Drupal 8 contributed modules. Drupal's students are all from Indian except one student from the UK, we currently have 15 mentors from 10 countries with over 100 years of experience on drupal.org. As always, we're excited about this summer and we hope community members will provide an extra helping hand if you see students in issue queues. GSoC runs from May 30th through August 21st 2017. Learn more about our projects below.

Project: A Module for client-side File encryption to implement a zero-knowledge systemStudent: Tameesh Biswas “tameeshb” (India)Mentors: Colan Schwartz “colan” (Canada), Adam Bergstein “nerdstein” (USA), Talha Paracha “talhaparacha” (Pakistan)

Project: Adding support for Theleague oauth and new implementers for social auth and social postStudent: Himanshu Dixit “himanshu-dixit” (India)Mentors: Getulio Sánchez “gvso” (Paraguay), Daniel Harris “dahacouk” (UK)

Project: Client-side public-key encryption module for Drupal 8Student: Marcin Czarnecki “marncz” (UK)Mentors: Colan Schwartz “colan” (Canada), Adam Bergstein “nerdstein” (USA), Talha Paracha “talhaparacha” (Pakistan)

Project: Complete porting of Examples for Developers Sub-modules to D8Student: Abhishek Lal “AbhishekLal” (India)Mentors:  Navneet Singh “navneet0693” (India), Vaibhav Jain “vaibhavjain” (India)

Project: Creating a great geospatial experience in Drupal 8 by porting and enhancing the Search_Api_Location moduleStudent: Dibyajyoti Panda “dbjpanda” (India)Mentors: Nick Veenhof “Nick_vh” (Belgium), Thomas Seidl “drunken monkey” (Austria), Joris Vercamen “borisson_” (Belgium)

Project: Port "Vote up/down" module to Drupal 8Student: Sudhanshu Gautam “sudhanshug” (India)Mentors: Marco Villegas “marvil07” (Peru), Palash Vijay “palashvijay4O” (India)

Project: Integrate Google Cloud Machine Learning Engine to Drupal 8Student: boby aloysius johnson “boaloysius” (India)Mentors: Jingsheng Wang “skyredwang” (China), Naveen Valecha “naveenvalecha” (India)

Project: Port Uc wishlist module to Drupal 8Student: Chiranjeeb Mahanta “chiranjeeb2410” (India)Mentors: Naveen Valecha “naveenvalecha” (India)

Find us on IRC in #drupal-google to join the fun. Interested in mentoring or have questions about this initiative? Contact Drupal's Organization Admin "Slurpee" (USA) with any questions.