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## Outreach programs
Zulip participates in [Google Summer of Code
(GSoC)](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/) every year.
In the past, we've also participated in
[Outreachy](https://www.outreachy.org/), [Google
Code-In](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gci/), and hosted
summer interns from Harvard, MIT, and Stanford.
Zulip regularly participates in [Google Summer of Code
(GSoC)](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/) and
[Outreachy](https://www.outreachy.org/). We have been a GSoC mentoring
organization since 2016, and we accept 15-20 GSoC participants each summer. In
the past, we’ve also participated in [Google
Code-In](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gci/), and hosted summer
interns from Harvard, MIT, and Stanford.
While each third-party program has its own rules and requirements, the
Zulip community's approaches all of these programs with these ideas in
mind:
- We try to make the application process as valuable for the applicant as
possible. Expect high-quality code reviews, a supportive community, and
publicly viewable patches you can link to from your resume, regardless of
whether you are selected.
- To apply, you'll have to submit at least one pull request to a Zulip
repository. Most students accepted to one of our programs have
several merged pull requests (including at least one larger PR) by
the time of the application deadline.
- The main criteria we use is quality of your best contributions, and
the bullets listed at
[What makes a great Zulip contributor](#what-makes-a-great-zulip-contributor).
Because we focus on evaluating your best work, it doesn't hurt your
application to makes mistakes in your first few PRs as long as your
work improves.
Most of our outreach program participants end up sticking around the
project long-term, and many have become core team members, maintaining
important parts of the project. We hope you apply!
### Google Summer of Code
The largest outreach program Zulip participates in is GSoC (14
students in 2017; 11 in 2018; 17 in 2019; 18 in 2020; 18 in 2021). While we
don't control how
many slots Google allocates to Zulip, we hope to mentor a similar
number of students in future summers. Check out our [blog
post](https://blog.zulip.com/2021/09/30/google-summer-of-code-2021/) to learn
about the GSoC 2021 experience and our participants' accomplishments.
If you're reading this well before the application deadline and want
to make your application strong, we recommend getting involved in the
community and fixing issues in Zulip now. Having good contributions
and building a reputation for doing good work is the best way to have
a strong application.
Our [GSoC program page][gsoc-guide] has lots more details on how
Zulip does GSoC, as well as project ideas. Note, however, that the project idea
list is maintained only during the GSoC application period, so if
you're looking at some other time of year, the project list is likely
out-of-date.
In some years, we have also run a Zulip Summer of Code (ZSoC)
program for students who we wanted to accept into GSoC but did not have an
official slot for. Student expectations are the
same as with GSoC, and ZSoC has no separate application process; your
GSoC application is your ZSoC application. If we'd like to select you
for ZSoC, we'll contact you when the GSoC results are announced.
[gsoc-guide]: https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/contributing/gsoc.html
[gsoc-faq]: https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/faq
Check out our [outreach programs
overview](https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/outreach/overview.md) to learn
more about participating in an outreach program with Zulip. Most of our program
participants end up sticking around the project long-term, and many have become
core team members, maintaining important parts of the project. We hope you
apply!
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