The Creative Commons (CC) technology team regrets to announce we will not be

participating in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2025. While the program remains

excellent, we do not have the resources to participate this year and meet our

core responsibilities.

We are grateful to Google for the program and have found incredible value in

participating in past years. We look forward to participating in future years.

We are thankful for the work and time of contributors. This is not an exciting

announcement, but we will be better equipped to engage with work programs in

the future.

Preparing to re-engage

In addition to revamping our CC Open Source website during the first quarter of

this year, we will also be refreshing our structured community involvement, and

improving our project lead resources.

Our CC Open Source website is in the process of being updated to be less

technologically complex and to leverage the current Vocabulary design system

(creativecommons/vocabulary).

Our structured community involvement has languished since the technology team

was downsized due to the COVID pandemic (202-12-07 Upcoming Changes to the CC

Open Source Community — Creative Commons Open Source). We will be

simplifying community involvement so that we can be more responsive with

increased visibility.

The most resource intensive period of a work program is the application phase.

During this time there is a deluge of activity that has often exceeded our

capacity. Developing our project lead resources will allow us to better set

expectations, ease communications, and better point applicants on productive

trajectories.

Past participation

For information on the excellent work completed during past participations,

please see: Open Source Work Programs: History — Creative Commons Open

Source.