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+# Gradle Community Events
+
+In Gradle, we organize multiple online events,
+and also often attend Java and open source community conferences
+like Devoxx or FOSDEM.
+We are happy to meet at those events.
+
+![Gradle team at Jfokus 2024](./conferences/gallery/2024-jfokus.jpg)
+
+## Gradle Events Calendar
+
+> Coming soon!
+
+## Mentorship Programs
+
+In Gradle, we want to participate in the mentorship programs
+and look for potential mentors and mentees.
+For example, in 2023 we participated in
+Google Summer of Code and sponsored interns in the Major League Hacking program
+(see the [2023 Lunar Year in Review](https://blog.gradle.org/2023-lunar-new-year) post)
+
+To learn more about the programs:
+
+- [Google Summer of Code](./gsoc/README.md)

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+# Gradle in Google Summer of Code (GSoC)
+
+## GSoC 2024
+
+Many organizations, including the Kotlin Foundation and the Eclipse Foundation, are planning Google Summer of Code in 2024.
+In Gradle, we plan to join one of the existing organizations.
+Let us know in the `#gsoc` channel on the community Slack if you're potentially interested!
+
+### Project Ideas
+
+So far we have submitted the relevant project ideas as a part of two foundations:
+
+- [Kotlin DSL improvements for Declarative Gradle](https://kotlinlang.org/docs/gsoc-2024.html#kotlin-dsl-improvements-for-declarative-gradle-medium-175-hrs) -
+  Kotlin Foundation, Medium difficulty, 175 hrs
+- [Gradle build server – support for Android projects](https://kotlinlang.org/docs/gsoc-2024.html#gradle-build-server-support-for-android-projects-medium-or-hard-175-hrs-or-350-hrs) -
+  Kotlin Foundation, Medium or Hard difficulty, 175 hrs or 350 hrs
+- [Kotlin DSL documentation samples test framework](https://kotlinlang.org/docs/gsoc-2024.html#kotlin-dsl-documentation-samples-test-framework-easy-or-medium-90-hrs-or-175-hrs) -
+  Kotlin Foundation, Easy or Medium difficulty, 90 hrs or 175 hrs
+- [Improve Buildship project and classpath generation](https://gitlab.eclipse.org/eclipsefdn/emo-team/gsoc-at-the-ef/-/issues/7) -
+  Eclipse Foundation, Easy difficulty, 175 hrs or 350 hrs
+- [Make Buildship independent from the Eclipse Gradle plugin](https://gitlab.eclipse.org/eclipsefdn/emo-team/gsoc-at-the-ef/-/issues/6) -
+  Eclipse Foundation, Medium or Hard difficulty, 175 hrs or 350 hrs
+- [Eclipse and Gradle Build Server](https://gitlab.eclipse.org/eclipsefdn/emo-team/gsoc-at-the-ef/-/issues/5) -
+  Eclipse Foundation, Medium or Hard difficulty, 175 hrs or 350 hrs
+
+### For Mentors
+
+We invite Gradle community members, if they are interested in mentoring, to submit their project ideas.
+
+Mentoring requires a time commitment of several hours a week.
+It is a great opportunity to have someone prototyping your idea
+that it is not on the short term roadmap
+but remains interesting to you and valuable to the Gradle community.
+
+References:
+
+- [Jenkins mentor guide](https://www.jenkins.io/projects/gsoc/mentors/)-
+  Realistic expectations from mentors which we maintain in the Jenkins project
+- [Mentorship Programs. Growing new community leaders](https://speakerdeck.com/onenashev/mentorship-programs-growing-new-team-and-community-leaders) -
+  a presentation by Oleg Nenashev on mentorship programs
+
+## GSoC 2023
+
+In the summer of 2023, The Kotlin Foundation sponsored four projects for the Google Summer of Code 2023.
+The Gradle Kotlin Script Support for Eclipse and BuildShip project by [Nikolai Vladimirov](https://www.linkedin.com/in/vladimir0v/) was one of them!
+Gradle, a Kotlin Foundation member, and [Donát Csikós](https://github.com/donat) provided mentoring support for this project.
+
+The project's initial goal was to improve user interaction with Gradle Kotlin scripts inside the Eclipse IDE.
+The project aimed to implement several key functionalities, including syntax highlighting for Kotlin scripts, content assistance, go-to-definition, accurate diagnostics for syntax errors, signature help, and hovering.
+Nikolai successfully delivered these features by implementing support for Kotlin scripts based on the existing [kotlin-language-server](https://github.com/fwcd/kotlin-language-server) project,
+creating a new system to separate compilation environments for each build script.
+[Read more](https://kotlinfoundation.org/news/gsoc-2023-eclipse-gradle-kotlin/) about this project by Nikolai and the team.
+
+![Syntax highlighting for .kts scripts in Eclipse IDE](./2023/buildship-syntax-demo.png "Syntax highlighting for .kts scripts in Eclipse IDE")

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     - Developer Tools:
       - Gradle Profiler: gradle-profiler/README.md
       - Gradle Doctor: gradle-doctor/docs/index.md
+  - Events:
+      - Events Overview: events/README.md
+      - Google Summer of Code: events/gsoc/README.md
   - Resources:
     - Resources: resources/README.md
     - Code of Conduct: dotgithub/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md