Thank you to all 11 contributorswho have made an entry on time. We hope you learn a lot from this experience, and hopefully, nobody knows till later on Feb 19, some of you get a GSoC.
Stats on preliminary tasks as Feb 7
More than 50 are working hard to do those on time and well,
Thank you for your time and efforts, and good luck for Feb 19th.
The Liquid Galaxy project has been presented to Google for Google Summer of Code 2026.
Now Google will select which organizations are in this year, and we all, contributors and organizations,
will know
on February 19.
So good luck for all, and don't stop working on your preliminary tasks.
Project Ideas
To keep it clear: all the documents have the same proposals, only the NotebookLM-powered ones have amazing graphics that catch the point about the spectacularity of a visualization from Liquid Galaxy has.
Anyway, we recommend you browse first the slides, and when you have an idea of the project (Google allows you to present a maximum of three), look at the plain definition of the same idea in the Google Sheet.
AI Clarification Policy note,but implementing a self-review code process, as the Artificial Intelligence wave makes us all to work harder to detect fake work and bad non-maintainable code. Always next the guidance and supervision of your mentor and admins.
Task 5, which can be done by anyone, at anytime, but with the rules already written in the post. If you have any doubt, as always, contact us on Discord if the question is open, or by email if it's private.
We're here to help you.
Get inspiration from the live streaming we have with Harsh, from VIT Pune, and mentors Yash, Vedant and andreu admin
about the opening of our new LAB in India, and activities with our project.
Spectacular session from mentor Victor Sanchez and Carreras about the AI coding possibilities that are appearing, a must-see.
AI created brief of GSoC 2026 at Liquid Galaxy
AI created ideas
(with time behind the curtains of the senior mentors of the Liquid Galaxy project)
Task I: Virtual Liquid Galaxy installations by contributors
Task I: Virtual Liquid Galaxy installations by contributors
1st dateline: JAN 11 2026, Task 1 statistics
YOU CAN STILL SEND US YOUR TASKS TILL MARCH 31
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in between every video will appear a Dash flying ( added when editing).
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You have to just send us an email with 00:00 (minutes and seconds) of the first second where a flying Dash appears (it's a chroma keyed animation that stays for around 10 seconds), so just XX:XX by email
Google Developers event platform, after we announce the videos availability, see all the videos, take note of the minute and second where the dash appears, and send us email to liquidgalaxylab gmail com with the times of all the videos (or some, as you wish)
Edited for clarity:
Addendun: the flying Dash is the one added to the video, not the one that appears on the intro (at second 9)... thanks to @Vinayak for the finding.
- Raffle will be after Google GSoC official orgs announcement
GSoC clarification as November 18, 2025
1- Google has announced the program and the calendar:
1- Google has announced the program and the calendar:
(Times in CET, always check Google's post for the final calendar)December 03, 2025 Program Announce Date
January 19, 2026 7:00 Org Applications Open
February 03, 2026 7:00 Org Application Deadline
February 18, 2026 7:00 Org Notification Date
February 19, 2026 7:00 Accepted Orgs Announced
March 16, 2026 7:00 Contributor Proposals Open
March 31, 2026 8:00 Proposal Deadline
April 21, 2026 8:00 Proposal Ranking Deadline
April 29, 2026 2:00 Slot Allocation Deadline
April 29, 2026 8:00 Projects Announced to Orgs
April 30, 2026 8:00 Accepted Projects Announced
November 11, 2026 7:00 Program End Date
2- No organization has been selected for GSoC 2026.
3- But most organizations, like the Liquid Galaxy project, start earlier with the different activities and the pre-selection of GSoC interns.
Where to start with the Liquid Galaxy
Take a look at the Community activities for the 2025-2026 season post of our GSoC and community autumn-related activities.
Discordserver
Google Developers Event Platform, and join GDG Lleida group, Liquid Galaxy base. You'll stay informed of all the events we'll do for the activities,
Lucia's 2025 projects documentation.
virtual Liquid Galaxyand try some apps
And always COMMUNICATE with us, email for personal matters to the project, and Discord for general enquiries.
Spoilers for the upcoming GSoC 2026 Project Ideas
*And remember, attending our streamings and training raises your LG Score... what's the LG Score?*Nov 18, 2025
Here are the news most of you were waiting for, the new changes in yearly community activities and
GSoC 2026 pre-requirements
All prospective contributors will need to complete pre-requisite tasks to be considered, as we must ensure you are familiar with our tech stack and your coding capabilities, alongside your soft skills.
Please read these instructions carefully, and if you have any questions, contact us via our Gmail account. liquidgalaxylab@gmail.com
Note: You can create the tasks in the order you want, but for us to approve every task, we need them in order. Send every task as noted, and wait for approval to send the next one. We'll not consider contributors not follow the rules.
For every task, we need a video and the GitHub code link, if any, as proof,** so first create in your own Google Drive a folder with read permissions for everyone, with your name, surname, and GSoC 2026, and create subfolders for every task.** - ** We do not allow acceleration of the voice to keep the video on time -edited for clarity- .**We do not allow overlays from third-party screen recorders or other tools - edited for clarity-
Do not delete this till Sept 2026.
Send us your first task, sending your drive's main GSoC folder with read permissions to anyone.
**The MP4 videos -edited for clarity- **have to be 3 minutes maximum, recorded horizontally in full HD, showing your face talking and the screen recorded.
Please always name all files with the task name, your name-surname, and GSOC year (2026), like
"Yashraj-task1-gsoc2026"
RSVP's clarification
AI clarification
So what's the Liquid Galaxy approach to AI use ? Simple:
you MUST understand how the AI generated code works, and what it gives back to you. Simply a copy paste will be fast detected by our mentors, and in this case, you will be exposed to being discarded from the program at any moment.
Also, as important as the need for something more than code, we'll never select a contributor just for sending a good proposal. We have a very tight pre-selection process, which includes the delivery of several tests and having personal meets with the mentors (
where they'll question you about your coding abilities, without AI help :)
, attending community meets, collaborating publicly in helping others at our Discord server, and more activities.
DATELINES clarification
Contributors have to try to give us the task on time, due that we need time to evaluate your abilities, both technical and soft skills.
Contributors who arrive late to the party, nothing bad there, just simply have to hurry up.
You can send us tasks till the very last day before Google closes its platform for proposals. -edited for clarity-
- Task 1:
Task 1: Install a virtual LG
Due January 11, 2026
**We do not support MAC OS on this,**as they have problems running the virtual machines.
Data Spacesapp from contributor Marc on 2025 GSoC, which works great on a smartphone 6.x inches vertically. Please fly to the 3 kinds of data the app has to demo your rig, including all submenus on the data. - Edited for clarity--
You must use a pixel phone emulator such as 6a, 7a or any available models. Please don't resize the screen to mimic smartphones as that isn't right. Remember, the video cannot be longer than 3 minutes.
GSoC 2024 updated LG installation manuals
Englishand
Spanish, the nice tutorial on setup a LG virtual by contributor Soham Jaiswal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLdUuDHo6lU, and the one from Yash Raj, actual senior mentor of the project, at
https://youtu.be/wzv-CiN6VeA?si=swVIiwIU3R3RR4sAor mentor Mahinour are too very good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz-QZi__10c
To see how we want the video take a look too at the many GSoC 2025 and 2024 contributors' task 1 videos,
https://youtu.be/gdYbBEdzGLc?si=lJcVKP9sd9eSnPxM
- T2:
T2: Create a basic Flutter app
Due January 28 2026NOTE: MOST OF THIS FUNCTIONALITIES needed here, and code, ARE CLEARLY EXPLAINED IN 2025 Lucia's project.
You have to create a basic LG app, where the user can select from a simple window with a button for each action -edited for clarity-, the following activities:
lg logoto the LG (left screen of a 3 screens rig), the logo has to be visible during all the demo.
Send proof of task following rules, including a video with your face and screen to avoid cheatting, explaining your code (5 mins max) and showing too , -edited for clarity- the kml that you have created.
Send us the videos, the kml files, the released build apk, always in you GSoC drive folder, on the right subfolder, and the Github link.
T3: Creating and delivering technical presentations
Before recording, send an email to liquidgalaxylab@gmail.com with your 3 proposals for presentations, next with a schedule for when you plan to have those ready, as we're starting to populate the Google events platform.
We do not want people to do presentations about the same thing again and again, so we'll answer you on your proposed presentations.
before recording, just to take a look.
presentationtitle-t3-yourname-GSOC2026-edited for clarity feb2-
Remember: as with all the files for GSoC, the videos have to be sent on your gsoc google drive, not Youtube on any other media. --edited for clarity
You have to overlay your face talking, and well synced, voice on the slides, as we do not want to be cheated :)
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Never add music to your videos, unless you have fully tested that has no copyright issues, as most of the videos will go to Youtube in the train the community series -edited 15.2-
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jE5hgubsCGg3TnaBUngxh8gh84nijDClnwXXth8tN-w/edit?usp=sharing
As samples, and to get train you can watch the great presentations contributors did in the past, such as:
Integrating Google Maps in Flutter for Liquid Galaxy apps, by Saumya Bhattacharya
https://www.youtube.com/live/Rkt1TtyrD54?si=drN96E7UdqHw-Ktg
T4: Creating at least 3 entries for our Liquid Galaxy WIKI
You should send us a previous email with the 3 contents you want to create for the wiki, as many other contributors may have chosen the same. And always browse our already nicely populated wiki before sending your proposals for wiki entries.
Please write with clarity for others to understand, and quote code in the right way.
Avoid heavy AI use; if we notice that you're simply using any LLM to create the entries, yours will not be considered, and maybe you'll be out of the GSoC race at our project.
All the entries have to be on the same Google Doc; we’ll not accept PDFs or .docx, and please name the doc with your name and GSoC2026. And you have to send only once, with all the entries ready to review. -edited for clarity-
Each entry has to be a minimum of half a page, as you have to explain the aforementioned parts and the code or instructions involved.
You’ll be credited if the entry is published, and you can also be invited to write other ones if the ones you choose have already been written many times.
Send proof of the task following the guidelines.
WIKI presentation videowith instructions and technical explanations.
T5: Proposal Mockup creation
(This is not a must to do pre requirement! but very important for you to succeed)
This year, we want to advance the proposal creation task.
It usually happens that contributors are a bit lost and on a tight agenda when Google opens the proposal window. For this reason, we want contributors to perform a preliminary task, creating a proposal.
Our organization will provide the preliminary ideas list around mid January, and next to this, the proposal template, this year with a little bit more design thanks to Nano Banana Pro :). You'll have to select one of those ideas, or even better, think your own project idea for the Liquid Galaxy and start creating the proposal.
While this proposal can be the base for the real one, we're just making an assay, as till the end of February, usually Google will not be announcing the selected organizations for the year's GSoC.
The art of writing good proposals and work logs for Google Summer of Code
GSoC 2025 proposals Final preparation
.Q&A session live from the Liquid Galaxy LAB Lleida, Spain.
More tips and analysis for your GSoC 2025 proposals.Liquid Galaxy project. Q&A session.
Also see the streamings we have been talking about common errors contributors make when writing their proposal:
Liquid Galaxy project Community 7th MEET AI proposals errors and other issues
And a final tip: we won't be making big changes to last year's GSoC proposal procedure, so
GSoC 2025 unique postand read all about proposal making.
T5: Proposal Mockup creation
Liquid Galaxy contests
Welcome to the new 2026 contest at the Liquid Galaxy project.
“Gemini Summer of Code, Agentic Programming contest for the Liquid Galaxy project”
Gemini Summer of Codecontest is closed.
Thank you to all 11 contributorswho have made an entry on time. We hope you learn a lot from this experience, and hopefully, nobody knows till later on Feb 19, some of you get a GSoC.
See the new explanatory videos for the
Gemini Summer of Code
Agentic Programming contest
for the Liquid Galaxy project
Created by VictorIA agentic system,
based on the idea and guidance of mentor and GDE Victor Sanchez