GSoC is a global fully online program whose aim is to bring new developers into open source software. It is a great opportunity to gain experience in real-world software development while helping the open source community. Additionally, GSoC contributors receive a stipend from Google. Initially focused on university students, since 2022 the program has expanded to welcome students and all beginner contributors to open source who are 18 years and older to participate.

NIU is a Research Software Engineering team based at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre and the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit dedicated to the development of high quality, accurate, robust, easy to use and maintainable open-source software for neuroscience and machine learning. They collaborate with researchers and other software engineers to advance research in the two research centres and make new algorithms and tools available to the global community.