Hi, thank you for your submission and the effort you put into your proposal. This year we received over 380 strong applications, and unfortunately we were not able to offer you a slot. This was a very competitive process, and many high quality proposals could not be selected. We truly encourage you to stay engaged and continue contributing to Wikimedia projects. Over the years, many contributors who were not selected for Google Summer of Code have gone on to make impactful contributions and become long term members of the community. Please do not see this as a failure, but as a step forward in your journey. We would love to stay in touch and support your continued involvement.

If you would like guidance on how to contribute to our projects outside GSoC, feel free to reach out to any of the mentors or org admins, they will be happy to help you get started.

You can get started or continue contributing here:

• New Developers Guide: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/New_Developers
• Developer Portal: https://developer.wikimedia.org/

We hope to see your contributions in our community soon.