GSoC clarification as November 18, 2025
1- Google has announced the program and the calendar:
(Times in CET, always check Google's post for the final calendar)
January 19, 2026 7:00 Org Applications Open
February 03, 2026 7:00 Org Application Deadline
February 18, 2026 7:00 Org Notification Date
February 19, 2026 7:00 Accepted Orgs Announced
March 16, 2026 7:00 Contributor Proposals Open
March 31, 2026 8:00 Proposal Deadline
April 21, 2026 8:00 Proposal Ranking Deadline
April 29, 2026 2:00 Slot Allocation Deadline
April 29, 2026 8:00 Projects Announced to Orgs
April 30, 2026 8:00 Accepted Projects Announced
November 11, 2026 7:00 Program End Date
2- No organization has been selected for GSoC 2026.
3- But most organizations, like the Liquid Galaxy project, start earlier with the different activities and the pre-selection of GSoC interns.
Where to start with the Liquid Galaxy
Take a look at the Community activities for the 2025-2026 season post of our GSoC and community autumn-related activities.
Join the Discord server
Join the Google Developers Event Platform, and join GDG Lleida group, Liquid Galaxy base. You'll stay informed of all the events we'll do for the activities,
Browse the documentation
Take a look at our hundreds of videos
Get a general overview of the LG project and GSoC at our community, looking at contributor Lucia's 2025 projects documentation.
Install your own virtual Liquid Galaxy and try some apps
(We recommend the 2025 ones, as all of them are focused on smartphones, not tablets)
And always COMMUNICATE with us, email for personal matters to the project, and Discord for general enquiries.
It's training season at the Liquid Galaxy project community
And you know, we do work hard for you to succeed and learn, so here's the preliminary training session developed together with our great mentor team, including many Google Developer Experts.
Links to the Google Developers Event platform for you to register are live.
Expect dates change!
And remember, attending our streamings and training raises your LG Score... what's the LG Score?
Say hello to our new 3D intro to LG streamings for 25-26 season:
made by Liquid Galaxy LAB students and contributors.
Nov 18, 2025
Here are the news most of you were waiting for, the new changes in yearly community activities and
GSoC 2026 pre-requirements
All prospective contributors will need to complete pre-requisite tasks to be considered, as we must ensure you are familiar with our tech stack and your coding capabilities, alongside your soft skills.
Please read these instructions carefully, and if you have any questions, contact us via our Gmail account. liquidgalaxylab@gmail.com
Note: You can create the tasks in the order you want, but for us to approve every task, we need them in order. Send every task as noted, and wait for approval to send the next one. We'll not consider contributors not follow the rules.
For every task, we need a video and the GitHub code link, if any, as proof, so first create in your own Google Drive a folder with read permissions for everyone, with your name and GSoC 2025, and create subfolders for every task. - We do not allow acceleration of the voice to keep the video on time -edited for clarity- .
Do not delete this till Sept 2026.
Send us your first task, sending your drive's main GSoC folder with read permissions to anyone.
The videos have to be 3 minutes maximum, recorded horizontally in full HD, showing your face talking and the screen recorded.
Please always name all files with the task name, your name, and GSOC year (2026), like
"Yashraj-task1-gsoc2026"
Drop a line in our Discord too, saying the yask has been sent, and possibly it will be published here.
AI clarification
AI clarification
We at the Liquid Galaxy project have been using AI since forever... some of our mentors are 40 years in the IT market, and believe us, we're in a big jump, but the AI thing is old.
The allowed use of AI depends on each organization (some do NOT allow it at any time).
It makes sense to use them in two moments: in the preparation of the proposal and in the development of the code, if you are selected.
This past 2025, the GSoC program doubled the number of proposals worldwide, from the normal 12,000 annually to 24,000. The reason?: ChatGPT...
And sadly, most of those 100% increases were spam, pure copy-paste of the organizations' proposal into any development AI and pasting it back...
Many organizations were saturated with work and burned out... According to a statistic we performed anonymously this past summer, 60% of the Liquid Galaxy project contributors developed part of their project with AI. It is a pure reflection of the state of the industry; the reality was probably larger: 99%. They use AI for both the creation of the proposal and the development of the project.
So what's the Liquid Galaxy approach to AI use ? Simple:
- We allow the use of any AI tool you want, at any moment of the project, preliminary tasks, selection proposal, and code development.
- But for your professional future and the stability of the project, you MUST understand how the AI generated code works, and what it gives back to you. Simply a copy paste will be fast detected by our mentors, and in this case, you will be exposed to being discarded from the program at any moment.
In any case, our project requires many different coding abilities and the knowledge of several technologies, things that the AI, in most cases, will not be a good performer. This also applies to the proposal creation, where you'll have to focus on graphic elements, not on code, as we did last year. We'll explain more later if our organization is selected for GSoC 2026.(But if you're curious, just browse the unique post for 2025 ...)
Also, as important as the need for something more than code, we'll never select a contributor just for sending a good proposal. We have a very tight pre-selection process, which includes the delivery of several tests and having personal meets with the mentors (where they'll question you about your coding abilities, without AI help :), attending community meets, collaborating publicly in helping others at our Discord server, and more activities.
DATELINES clarification
Contributors have to try to give us the task on time, due that we need time to evaluate your abilities, both technical and soft skills.
Contributors who arrive late to the party, nothing bad there, just simply have to hurry up.
All pre-required tasks are needed for our evaluation of contributors and have to be presented maximum before the proposal date, but as you can imagine, dates will be so tight that we can not guarantee your work to be reviewed. So starting early wherever possible is a good idea.
- Task 1: Install a virtual LG Due January 11, 2026
Build your own Liquid Galaxy with 3 virtual machines; be careful with the RAM requirements to run such a system.
We do not support MAC OS on this, as they have problems running the virtual machines.
The rig has to be 3 machines, and the control has to be a smartphone running on the emulator.
To test your rig, use the simple Data Spaces app from contributor Marc on 2025 GSoC, which works great on a smartphone 6.x inches vertically. You must use a pixel phone emulator such as 6a, 7a or any available models. Please don't resize the screen to mimic smartphones as that isn't right. Remember, the video cannot be longer than 3 minutes.
Documentation is available on the GSoC 2024 updated LG installation manuals
Older versions as this English and Spanish, the nice tutorial on setup a LG virtual by contributor Soham Jaiswal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLdUuDHo6lU, and the one from Yash Raj, actual senior mentor of the project, at https://youtu.be/wzv-CiN6VeA?si=swVIiwIU3R3RR4sA are also OK.
To see how we want the video take a look too at the many GSoC 2025 and 2024 contributors' task 1 videos,
To see how we want the video take a look too at the many GSoC 2025 and 2024 contributors' task 1 videos,
https://youtu.be/gdYbBEdzGLc?si=lJcVKP9sd9eSnPxM
- T2: Create a basic Flutter app Due January 28 2026
You have to create a basic LG app, where the user can select from a simple window:
to the 2023 with 50 !!! installations
- T2: Create a basic Flutter app Due January 28 2026
You have to create a basic LG app, where the user can select from a simple window:
- To put the lg logo on the LG (left screen of a 3 screens rig)
- To send 2 different kmls, selectable one by one.
- To send 2 different kmls, selectable one by one.
- An option to clean the logos
- And option to clean the kmls
Send proof of task following rules, including a video explaining your code (5 mins max) and the kml that you have created. If the kml is not created by you, please mention the source where you took it from.
Also do make a released build of your apk when showcasing the functionality of the app.
Send us the videos, the kml files and the released build apk, always in you GSoC drive folder, on the right subfolder.
Send us the videos, the kml files and the released build apk, always in you GSoC drive folder, on the right subfolder.
- T3: Creating and delivering technical presentations
For our Liquid Galaxy streaming series, to train the community and show up both your technical and soft skills, we require you to record a minimum of three 20’’ minimum, and a maximum of 45 technical presentations.
Those can be about any of our tech stack topics, technologies we use, or related questions.
Before recording, send an email to liquidgalaxylab@gmail.com with your 3 proposals for presentations, next with a schedule for when you plan to have those ready, as we're starting to populate the Google events platform.
We do not want people to do presentations about the same thing again and again, so we'll answer you on your proposed presentations.
Also, when ready, share a Google Slides deck with your presentation OPEN FOR COMMENTS before recording, just to take a look.
All the files you send us, have to have the same naming structure: and for presentations add in the front the exact name of presentation : name-task name-yourname-GSOC2026
Make a copy, rename, and use this template for your slides https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jE5hgubsCGg3TnaBUngxh8gh84nijDClnwXXth8tN-w/edit?usp=sharing
The community can ask questions in our Discord server, channel #community-chat, at any moment after the publishing of the video to the creator, and it's a must to answer those, showing up your soft skills such as community communication.
For the other contributors, remember that attending presentations and interacting will help your LG Score, giving you more opportunities to be selected for GSoC 2025.
Due date is since today, 18.11.2025, and is due before GSoC contributors announcement.
As samples, and to get train you can watch the great presentations contributors did in the past, such as:
Integrating Google Maps in Flutter for Liquid Galaxy apps, by Saumya Bhattacharya
https://www.youtube.com/live/Rkt1TtyrD54?si=drN96E7UdqHw-Ktg
- T4: Creating at least 3 entries for our Liquid Galaxy WIKI
Due date before GSoC contributors announcement.
Created in 2024 by contributor Dev Gadani with the help of Sidharth and mentor Vedant, our WIKI
is a searchable repository of LG knowledge.
As proof of your knowledge of our tech stack, we require every contributor to be considered for GSoC to create 3 new entries for the wiki, all related to the new tech stack situations.
All good entries will be published and credited in our lg.eu Wiki.
You should send us a previous email with the 3 contents you want to create for the wiki, as many other contributors may have chosen the same. And always browse our already nicely populated wiki before sending your proposals for wiki entries.
Please write with clarity for others to understand, and quote code in the right way.
Avoid heavy AI use; if we notice that you're simply using any LLM to create the entries, yours will not be considered, and maybe you'll be out of the GSoC race at our project.
All the entries have to be on the same Google Doc; we’ll not accept PDFs or .docx, and please name the doc with your name and GSoC2026.
Each entry has to be a minimum of half a page, as you have to explain the aforementioned parts and the code or instructions involved.
You’ll be credited if the entry is published, and you can also be invited to write other ones if the ones you choose have already been written many times.
Send proof of the task following the guidelines.
You can take a look at the WIKI presentation video with instructions and technical explanations.
- T5: Proposal Mockup creation
(This is not a must to do pre requirement! but very important for you to succeed)
This year, we want to advance the proposal creation task.
It usually happens that contributors are a bit lost and on a tight agenda when Google opens the proposal window. For this reason, we want contributors to perform a preliminary task, creating a proposal.
Our organization will provide for next Christmas the preliminary ideas list., and next to this, the proposal template. You'll have to select one of those ideas, or even better, think your own project idea for the Liquid Galaxy and start creating the proposal.
While this proposal can be the base for the real one, we're just making an assay, as till the end of February, usually Google will not be announcing the selected organizations for the year's GSoC.
- T5: Proposal Mockup creation
(This is not a must to do pre requirement! but very important for you to succeed)
This year, we want to advance the proposal creation task.
It usually happens that contributors are a bit lost and on a tight agenda when Google opens the proposal window. For this reason, we want contributors to perform a preliminary task, creating a proposal.
Our organization will provide for next Christmas the preliminary ideas list., and next to this, the proposal template. You'll have to select one of those ideas, or even better, think your own project idea for the Liquid Galaxy and start creating the proposal.
While this proposal can be the base for the real one, we're just making an assay, as till the end of February, usually Google will not be announcing the selected organizations for the year's GSoC.
There are plenty of good resources to see in the meantime, such as our many videos talking about this:
GSoC 2025 proposals Final preparation .Q&A session live from the Liquid Galaxy LAB Lleida, Spain.
More tips and analysis for your GSoC 2025 proposals.Liquid Galaxy project. Q&A session.
Also see the streamings we have been talking about common errors contributors make when writing their proposal:
Liquid Galaxy project Community 7th MEET AI proposals errors and other issues
And a final tip: we'll be not making big changes to last year GSoC proposal procedsure, so
More tips and analysis for your GSoC 2025 proposals.Liquid Galaxy project. Q&A session.
Also see the streamings we have been talking about common errors contributors make when writing their proposal:
Liquid Galaxy project Community 7th MEET AI proposals errors and other issues
And a final tip: we'll be not making big changes to last year GSoC proposal procedsure, so
browse our GSoC 2025 unique post and read all about proposal making, and get too last year proposal template :))
EDITED for clarity:
Do not start sending us proposal and expect those to be reviewed ASAP, as we need to see your coding abilities first, take this as an extra optional requirement, that has to go in parallel with the other tasks.
Due date is since January 12, 2025 and due by the end of February, 2026
Liquid Galaxy contests
We'll be back soon with a couple of contests to motivate contributors to learn about our tech stack and create nice applications.
Expect again contest like:
- A Laser Slides app developed in Flutter
- A Gemini or Gemma, Google's AI models, Kiss app contest.
- A Kiss LG controller app contest
(If curious, search this website for older info)
We'll publish those in December 2025.
