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 [transifex]: https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/translating.html#testing-translations
 [z-org]: https://github.com/zulip/zulip.github.io
 
+## Google Summer of Code
+
+We participated in
+[GSoC](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/) last year and
+hope to do so again in 2017.  For guidance, please read
+[our GSoC instructions and ideas page](https://github.com/zulip/zulip.github.io/blob/master/gsoc-ideas.md)
+and feel free to email
+[our GSoC mailing list](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/zulip-gsoc).
+
 ## How to get involved with contributing to Zulip
 
 First, subscribe to the Zulip [development discussion mailing