You got selected for GSoC 2026, now what?

So your inbox lit up yesterday with the email. The proposal worked, the interviews worked, the late-night drafts worked. Take a moment, breathe, tell your family, post the screenshot. You earned it 🎉 Now, the actual fun part begins. GSoC is, at its core, a few months of getting paid to learn from people who have spent years figuring out how to build software that thousands (sometimes millions) of strangers depend on. Think of it as an internship, but instead of a single company, your "office" i