December of previous year - advertise for Mentors / start the ball rolling - choose a coordinator 

https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline (GSOC timelines) 

January second week - Generate and finalize a list of ideas for development 

January third week - align the ideas and inform the GSOC coordinators at the ASF 

Feb first week - The ASF finalizes application to GSOC 

March second week - Applications open for contributors 

April  - Applicants evaluated and selected by the project / approved by GSOC 

May third or fourth week  Start of projects 

June/July/Aug - mentoring 

Late August-  projects completed and shared  

see ==>  https://groups.google.com/g/google-summer-of-code-announce?pli=1

See https://community.apache.org/gsoc/guide-to-being-a-mentor.html 

 NOTE:   Mentors working with the Fineract GSOC coordinator create JIRA tickets in the Apache Fineract project with tags  GSOC and GSOC2026  . 

These will then show up in the ASF Jira and can be seen by the GSOC Coordinator at Community Development (CommDev) for submission to the GSOC application due in late January.