First GSoC 2026 update

Author: terriko

ideas.html

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-                    <h2 class="content-head content-head">Ideas</h2>
+                    <h2 class="content-head content-head">Ideas for 2025 (NOT THIS YEAR DO NOT USE)</h2>
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-                            <p>Students: <a href="https://python-gsoc.org/index.html#gettingstarted">Instructions on getting started</a>.  Applications have closed, and we'll have further updates soon. The <a href="https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/" target="_blank">official GSoC website</a> has the most timely news.</p>
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                             <p>
-                                If you're a sub-org who wants to join, please
+                            <h2>You're early! GSoC 2026 pages will be ready in late January 2026.</h2>
+                            <p>Students: <a href="https://python-gsoc.org/index.html#gettingstarted">Instructions on getting started</a>.  This is last year's idea page, but the contact information for most orgs will not have changed if you want to go work on solving bugs while you wait.  Please note that not every organization that participated in 2025 will be back in 2026 -- contact them directly to ask.
+
+                                <p>If you're a sub-org who wants to join, please
                                 <a href="https://python-gsoc.org/mentors.html#sub-orgs">read the information for sub-orgs</a>.
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index.html

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-                            <p>Python has been accepted to GSoC 2025!</p>
+                            <p>GSoC 2026 has been announced!</p>
+                            <p><h2>Python is hoping to apply to GSoC 2026, but right now we don't know anything!  We will not have a list of sub-orgs until late January 2026 and there is no guarantee we iwill be accepted as a mentoring org.</h2></p>
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-				Contributors: Please start with the <a href="https://python-gsoc.org/#gettingstarted">Python GSoC getting started guide</a>.
-				The <a href="ideas.html">Ideas</a> page has a list of active organizations taking part in this year's Summer of Code; you should
-                                read their materials and if they're of interest, contact them on their forums or chat about applying! Applications will open in late March,
-                                so now's a good time to get familiar with the projects and their needs.
+				Contributors: Please start with the <a href="https://python-gsoc.org/#gettingstarted">Python GSoC getting started guide</a>.  
+				Last year's <a href="ideas.html">Ideas</a> page has a list of organizations that took part, but we already know several that will not be returning in 2026.  Please talk to the organizations directly.
+                                Now's a good time to get familiar with the projects and their needs.
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-                            <p>Mentors and sub-orgs who have been accepted, we'll be in touch; if you help run an organization that would like to be involved even now,
-                               please <a href="#contact">contact the org admins</a> if you want to be part of GSoC 2025.</p>
+                            <p>Mentors and sub-orgs:
+                               Please <a href="#contact">contact the org admins</a> if you want to be part of GSoC 2026.</p>
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