ESA Summer of code in Space
ESA Summer of Code in Space was a program run by the European Space Agency. It aims at offering student developers stipends to write code for various space-related open source software projects. Through SOCIS, accepted student applicants are paired with a mentor or mentors from the participating projects, thus gaining exposure to real-world software development scenarios. In turn, the participating projects are able to more easily identify and bring in new developers.
SunPy has participated in the last seven editions (2011 - 2017). During these editions SunPy has obtained a big push in the development and gained new members that have stuck to the core of SunPy. Don't doubt to find a project you would like to do and apply for it (some time soon!).
For those who want to apply, you need to follow the Google-Summer-of-Code rules, so please read over these pages and pay particular attention to GSoC: Advice for Students. In summary, this means communicating with the SunPy community and project mentors, with a (ideally recent) pull request made to the SunPy organisation.
There is an extra requirement. The application on the SOCIC website is quite small and as such we require a formal application to be added to our wiki to be even considered for a SOCIS position.
