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+Google Summer of Code
+=====================
+
+Read the Docs is hoping to participate in the Google Summer of Code in 2018.
+This page will contain all the information for students and anyone else interested in helping.
+
+Required Skills
+---------------
+
+Incoming students will need the following skills:
+
+* Intermediate Python & Django programming
+* Familiarity with Markdown, reStructuredText, or some other plain text markup language
+* Familiarity with git, or some other source control
+* Ability to set up your own development environment for Read the Docs
+* Basic understanding of web technologies (HTML/CSS/JS)
+* An interest in documentation and improving open source documentation tools would be great too!
+
+We're happy to help you get up to speed,
+but the more you are able to demonstrate ability in advance,
+the more likely we are to choose your application! 
+
+Getting Started
+---------------
+
+The :doc:`/install` doc is probably the best place to get going.
+It will walk you through getting a basic environment for Read the Docs setup. 
+
+Then you can look through our :doc:`contribute` doc for information on how to get started contributing to RTD.
+
+People who has a history of submitting issues and pull requests will be prioritized in our Summer of Code selection process,
+so don't be shy!
+
+Want to get involved?
+---------------------
+
+If you're interested in participating in GSoC as a student, you can also post an `issue <https://github.com/rtfd/readthedocs.org/issues>`_ on GitHub to let us know. We will be happy to help direct you or answer any questions you may have there.
+
+You can also reach out to folks on IRC at `#readthedocs` on Freenode.
+
+Project Ideas
+-------------
+
+We have written our some loose ideas for projects to work on here.
+We are also open to any other ideas that students might have. 
+
+Collections of Projects
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+This project involves building a user interface for groups of projects in Read the Docs (`Collections`).
+Users would be allowed to create, publish, and search a `Collection` of projects that they care about.
+We would also allow for automatic creation of `Collections` based on a project's ``setup.py`` or ``requirements.txt``.
+
+Once a user has a `Collection`,
+we would allow them to do a few sets of actions on them:
+
+* Search across all the projects in the `Collection` with one search dialog
+* Download all the project's documentation (PDF, HTMLZip, Epub) for offline viewing
+* Build a landing page for the collection that lists out all the projects, and could even have a user-editable description, similar to our project listing page.
+
+There is likely other ideas that could be done with `Collections` over time.
+
+Support for additional build steps for linting, testing, and other useful things
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Currently we only build documentation on Read the Docs,
+but we'd also like to add additional build steps that lets users perform more actions.
+This would likely take the form of wraping some of the existing `Sphinx builders <http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/builders.html>`_,
+and giving folks a nice way to use them inside Read the Docs.
+
+It would be great to have wrappers for the following as a start:
+
+* Link Check (http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/builders.html#sphinx.builders.linkcheck.CheckExternalLinksBuilder)
+* Spell Check (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/sphinxcontrib-spelling/)
+* Doctest (http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/ext/doctest.html#module-sphinx.ext.doctest)
+* Coverage (http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/ext/coverage.html#module-sphinx.ext.coverage)
+
+The goal would also be to make it quite easy for users to contribute third party build steps for Read the Docs,
+so that other useful parts of the Sphinx ecosystem could be tightly integrated with Read the Docs.
+
+Additional Ideas
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+We have some medium sized projects sketched out in our issue tracker with the tag *Feature Overview*.
+Looking through `these issues`_ is a good place to start.
+You can also look through any additional open issue to get ideas or what to work on.
+
+.. _these issues: https://github.com/rtfd/readthedocs.org/issues?direction=desc&labels=Feature+Overview&page=1&sort=updated&state=open
+
+Possible Mentors
+----------------
+
+Anyone listed in Development Team on our :doc:`/team` page would be a great person to chat with about mentoring!
+
+Thanks
+------
+
+This page was heavily inspired by Mailman's similar `GSOC page`_.
+Thanks for the inspiration.
+
+.. _GSOC page: http://wiki.list.org/display/DEV/Google+Summer+of+Code+2014