Is GSoC Worth It? We Got In and Here's the Truth | GSoC 2026

These students made it to Google Summer of Code 2026. Kartik Yadav, Manshu Saini, Kartikey Gupta, Agnik Misra, and Tarunya Kesharwani are students of Newton School of Technology, Rishihood University, who got selected for one of the world’s most competitive open-source programs. Google Summer of Code gives students the opportunity to contribute to real-world software projects under international open-source organizations and mentors. In this video, the students talk about how they got started with open source, writing proposals for GSoC, contributing pull requests to real projects, collaborating with global maintainers, and working on scalable systems, dashboards, MRI research tooling, and more. From merging dozens of pull requests to contributing to projects connected with organizations like OWASP and VLC, this is a glimpse into what modern software engineering and open-source contribution actually looks like during college. #GoogleSummerOfCode #GSoC2026 #OpenSource #SoftwareEngineering #Coding #Programming #ComputerScience #GitHub #Developers #JEE2026 #JEEAspirants #Class12Results #EngineeringStudents #BTech #TechCareers #ComputerScienceEngineering #AIEngineering #NST #NewtonSchoolOfTechnology #RishihoodUniversity 00:00 Why GSoC Is Such a Big Deal 00:19 Meet the Students Who Made it to GSoC 2026 00:36 Why Open Source Matters 01:10 Mentorship, PRs & The GSoC Journey 02:03 From OWASP Experiments to Selection Mail 02:53 VLC, MRI Research & Real-World Projects 04:26 How GSoC Changes Careers & Builds Open Source Culture