# Twitter Space | Navigating Google Summer of Code organizations

- Date: March 13, 2022
- Time: 8 PM - 10 PM
- Link: https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1vOxwyYmEBLGB
- Hosts:
- Harsh Mishra
- Gagandeep Singh
- Abhinav Raj
- Speakers:
- Confirmed
- Harsh Mishra (MetaCall)
- Meet Patel (Percona)
- Gagandeep Singh (Sympy & Lfortran)
- Abhinav Raj (FOSSASIA)
- Oleg (Jenkins, Keptn)
- ThinkX (PostgreSQL)
- Meet (Percona)
- Gagandeep (NUMFOCUS)
- Shivay (CNCF, Tensorflow)

- Action Items
- [ ] What is Google Summer of Code?
- [ ] GSoC timeline
- [ ] Introduction of speakers (5-10 mins each)
- [ ] A high level GSoC related experience sharing
- [ ] Stats of organisations selected this year
- [ ] No of organisations selected - 350 applied, 203 selected
- [ ] No of new organisations selected - 32
- [ ] Interesting facts
- [ ] Organisations like Mozilla, Percona not selected this year
- [ ] Pre-requisties of participating
- [ ] How to select an organisation
- [ ] What are ways to get started with GSoC application?
- Speakers can recount their experiences
- Tips specific to specific organizations
- How much prior contributions are necessary?
- [ ] Making a proposal for GSoC
- [ ] Mentors can talk about their specific organisation
- [ ] People can ask their doubts to mentors
- [ ] Q&A