Hi, NumFOCUS has promotes and supports the ongoing research and development of open-source computing tools including Matplotlib. This year NumFOCUS want to try be a Google Summer of Code "umbrella" mentoring organization, Umbrella organizations are mentoring organizations accepted into the Google Summer of Code program that have other open source organizations working "under" them. Sometime organizations that work very closely or have very similar goals or communities may get put together under an "umbrella." Google stills expects all organizations under the umbrella, whether accepted into the program under their title or not, to adhere to all the rules and regulations of the program. From https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2015/help_page#umbrella_organization To help promote and support Matplotlib. We encourage Matplotlib to apply to Google Summer of Code under your own title and will be very happy if you can also do with us. If you are interested, please check https://github.com/swcarpentry/gsoc2015 and https://github.com/swcarpentry/gsoc2015/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md. If you have any question, please email me directly. Thanks in advance, Raniere