incy 彡

20. @pointblank_club

[incy 彡 @IncyJ4]

i’m not grinding for medals/LinkedIn likes.
i’m doing it because there’s no tech success story around me.
my parents are unemployed, i’ve got a year left, and a younger brother who’ll need support soon.
i want them to depend on me; to rest, travel, and live freely for once.

[incy 彡 @IncyJ4]

@cneuralnetwork yes

[Point Blank @pointblank_club]

Point Blank congratulates Inchara on getting selected as a mentee for Kornia as part of #GSoC 2026 #pointblank

[incy 彡 @IncyJ4]

@glowontweet thank you for the wishes :)

[incy 彡 @IncyJ4]

i keep coming back to this.

[incy 彡 @IncyJ4]

i’m not grinding for medals/LinkedIn likes.
i’m doing it because there’s no tech success story around me.
my parents are unemployed, i’ve got a year left, and a younger brother who’ll need support soon.
i want them to depend on me; to rest, travel, and live freely for once.

[incy 彡 @IncyJ4]

@Adarsh2028 thanks, hopefully one day

[incy 彡 @IncyJ4]

@curlysaarthak not yet

[incy 彡 @IncyJ4]

@freshlimesofa nice

[incy 彡 @IncyJ4]

@vedantdotrpm in this case, whoever gets the internship first is a winner.

[incy 彡 @IncyJ4]

@kitarp29 thank you bhaiya! <3

[incy 彡 @IncyJ4]

finally!

#gsoc2026

[incy 彡 @IncyJ4]

@pointblank_club HELL YEAHHH

[incy 彡 @IncyJ4]

@SkySingh04 thank you bhaiya! all the wins are because of you and @pointblank_club

[incy 彡 @IncyJ4]

@autom8nerd bruh 😭

[incy 彡 @IncyJ4]

@Ashutosh_7x7 mail toh 30th apr ko aaya
aaj hi post Kiya hai sab jagah

[Point Blank @pointblank_club]

Congratulations to ??? on getting accepted for GSoC 2026 at ###

[Point Blank @pointblank_club]

100x school ka fees : 16,80,000

Our fees : Free daaru and occasional parties for all members

16 selections from Point Blank this year

[incy 彡 @IncyJ4]

Built different

[Point Blank @pointblank_club]

Team Point Blank has 16 members accepted as part of GSoC this year! This is not just some achievement, ladies and gentlemen, this is history being written right in front of you!
#WeArePointBlank

[Point Blank @pointblank_club]

Team Point Blank has 16 members accepted as part of GSoC this year! This is not just some achievement, ladies and gentlemen, this is history being written right in front of you!
#WeArePointBlank

[Ashutosh Pandey @ashpande18]

@pointblank_club has produced a double digit number of acceptances to #GSoC (Google Summer of Code) 2026. It’s a big number. It’s more than double of what we did last year. We’re worried about the JEE style discourse that this will create.

So I’m not here to talk about numbers.

Instead I want to talk a little bit about our process, and the difference between enthusiastically participating in GSoC versus crossing the line into unethical territory.

- Educating the participants is extremely important. Every year at Point Blank starts with a Primer on FOSS development. What is open source, how it came to be, the four freedoms of free software, the story of the Linux kernel and GNU, licensing and how it shapes the landscape. The idea of giving back via contributions and volunteering.

- Volunteering is important. You’ll find Point Blank members at various FOSS conferences around the city - IndiaFOSS, RustIndia, IICT and more. You’ll find them at the GSoC booth at FOSSASIA. They do everything from managing the recording equipment to taking out the trash. They interact with maintainers and learn about their challenges, and sensitise themselves to the challenges that maintainers face everyday.

- Every year, we have a sizeable number of mentors who contribute back to their communities long after having completed GSoC themselves.

- No tolerance for bad behaviour. We have suspended and removed people from the club over a single small incident of unethical conduct. Something as simple as assigning yourself an issue that was already taken. We have zero tolerance for sloppy work and bad behaviour. All juniors start by working on internal projects first to learn basic git workflows and etiquette.

- It takes time to build excellence. We have been doing this for 7 years now. We started with 1 GSoC contributor in 2020, then 2 in 2021, 4 in 2022 to 7 last year. We’ve had the fortune of meeting several org mentors and admins, and refine our strategy over the years.

That’s how we got the results we did. Just by sticking to the rules, giving it our best shot and contributing. Unfortunately this is not the case with many other institutions that use underhanded tactics to get selections, and we hope that we can serve as an example that sometimes to be the best all you need to do is do the right thing!

CC: @SkySingh04, @dhruvslashex