# GSoC 2026 - Contributer Introduction

**URL:** <https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/gsoc-2026-contributer-introduction/44332>\
**Category:** Google Season of Code\
**Created:** [February 28, 2026, 10:23am UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/gsoc-2026-contributer-introduction/44332 "2026-02-28T10:23:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![DE41H](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/de41h/32/31713_2.png) [@DE41H](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/DE41H)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2026, 10:23am UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/gsoc-2026-contributer-introduction/44332/1 "2026-02-28T10:23:19Z")

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Hello Mentors,

I’m Sreyash Satpathy, a first-year engineering student from BITS Pilani, India. I’ve been working with Django/DRF and Docker as part of my commitment to my university’s technical team (SUTT), and I’m looking forward to contributing to Django for GSoC 2026.

I’ve already got the local dev environment working and am now looking for good issues to work on. I’m particularly fascinated by the ORM of Django and would like to make my contributions catered towards it.

Excited to deepen my knowledge of the django, python, open-source!

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**Author:** ![KenWhitesell](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/kenwhitesell/32/280_2.png) [@KenWhitesell](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/KenWhitesell)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2026, 1:10am UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/gsoc-2026-contributer-introduction/44332/2 "2026-03-01T01:10:32Z")

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Welcome @DE41H !

We recommend that everyone gets started by reading:

- [Looking to get involved? Start here!](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/looking-to-get-involved-start-here/18014)
- For more information about GSoC, See [SummerOfCode2026 – Django](https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/SummerOfCode2026)
- Also read the blog post at [Getting Started Contributing to Django · Better Simple](https://www.better-simple.com/django/2024/12/25/getting-started-contributing-django/) (Among all the other useful information, there’s specifically a section with resources on finding appropriate tickets.)

Feel free to ask questions here if there’s anything in those references that you don’t understand or if you get stuck.