feat(blog): GSoC 2025 call for mentors

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+title: "Google Summer of Code 2025: Volunteers Needed to Mentor Future Jenkins Contributors"
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+- gsoc2025
+- contribute
+- community
+author: alyssat
+description: "Recruiting mentors for GSoC 2025"
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+image:/images/post-images/2023/12/gsoc-call-for-mentors.png[Google Summer of Code call for mentors., role=center, float=center]
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+=== TL,DR:
+Jenkins is preparing to participate in its ninth (9th) year in Google Summer of Code (GSoC). We are seeking volunteers to be Jenkins mentors in the program: 
+
+- Mentoring takes about 5 to 8 hours of work per week for a 10-22 weeks program.
+- Mentors provide guidance, coaching, review proposals, pull-requests, and contributor presentations.
+- Sign up to mentor link:https://www.jenkins.io/projects/gsoc/2025/project-ideas/[one of these project ideas] or propose your own.
+
+Don’t have time to read? link:https://youtu.be/02Ygo5RAcu4[Watch this video.]
+
+== What is Google Summer of Code?
+
+link:https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/[Google Summer of Code] (GSoC) is a global, online mentoring program focused on introducing new contributors to open-source software development.
+GSoC contributors work on a 10-22 weeks-long programming project with the guidance of mentors from their respective open source organizations.
+During GSoC, accepted contributors are paired with mentors from participating open-source organizations of their choice, gaining exposure to real-world software development techniques.
+These GSoC contributors will get to learn from experienced open-source developers while writing code for real-world projects!
+A small stipend is provided as an incentive to support their open-source contributions.
+Refer to the link:https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/get-started[GSoC contributor eligibility] documentation for more details.
+
+== Why might you consider being a Jenkins in GSoC mentor? 
+
+Mentor interaction is a vital part of GSoC.
+Mentoring is a great opportunity to improve your management and people (or general “soft”) skills while giving back to the community.
+In return for mentoring, a GSoC contributor works on your project full-time for 10-22 weeks.
+Think about the projects that you've always wanted to do but never had the time to complete.
+GSoC is a fantastic program and the Jenkins project is looking forward to participating in it again in 2025, potentially with your participation!
+
+== What does mentoring involve?
+
+Potential mentors are invited to read the link:https://www.jenkins.io/projects/gsoc/mentors[information for mentors].
+Note that being a GSoC mentor does not require expert knowledge of Jenkins.
+Mentors do not work alone.
+We make sure that every project has at least two mentors.
+GSoC org admins will be there to help to find technical advisers, so you can study together with your GSoC contributor.
+Mentoring takes about 5 to 8 hours of work per week (more at the start, less at the end).
+Mentors provide guidance, coaching, and sometimes a bit of cheerleading.
+They review GSoC contributor proposals, pull-requests, and contributor presentations at the evaluation phase.
+They fill in the Google-provided final evaluations at the end of the coding period.
+
+== So you want to be a mentor but don’t have a project idea? We can help with that!
+
+GSoC project ideas are coding projects that potential GSoC contributors are expected to accomplish in about 10-22 weeks.
+The coding projects can be new features, plugins, test frameworks, infrastructure, graphical interface, etc.
+If you don't have a specific project idea, please consider being a mentor for one of link:https://www.jenkins.io/projects/gsoc/2025/project-ideas/[these project ideas]. 
+If you have a specific project in mind, please send us your project ideas before the beginning of February, so they can get a proper review by the GSoC committee and by the community.
+Of course, we would love it if you were the mentor for your project idea.
+
+== How to submit a project idea
+
+Create a pull request with your idea in a .adoc file in the link:https://github.com/jenkins-infra/jenkins.io/tree/master/content/projects/gsoc/2025/project-ideas[project ideas].
+It is not necessary to submit a Google Doc, but it will still work if you want to do that.
+Refer to the link:https://www.jenkins.io/projects/gsoc/proposing-project-ideas/[instructions] on submitting ideas which include an .adoc template and some examples.
+
+== Need more inspiration?
+
+Case in point, the link:https://www.jenkins.io/blog/2023/10/25/what-is-the-plugin-health-score/[Plugin Health Score].
+A GSoC project idea that started in the summer of 2022, and was implemented in the summer of 2023 for millions of Jenkins users to benefit from!
+
+We look forward to welcoming new mentors for GSoC 2025!
+
+For any questions, you can find the GSoC Org Admins, mentors and participants on the link:https://app.gitter.im/#/room/#jenkinsci_gsoc-sig:gitter.im[GSoC SIG Gitter] chat.
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