Stepping Back From GSoC – For Now (#51)

Author: ReimarBauer

docs/04_gsoc.md

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+:warning: **For the 2026 GSoC cycle, we've decided to take a break.** [See our recent blog post!](https://open-mss.github.io/gsoc/stepping/back/for/now/2025/11/26/gsoc-stepping-back-for-now.html)
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 # Contacting the MSS team
 If you want to contribute to Mission Support System, 
 You can talk to us on channel #mss by the [libera chat](https://web.libera.chat/?nick=Guest&#mss) 
@@ -30,28 +33,7 @@ We have labled small sized issues as "good first issue" on <https://github.com/O
 
 
 # Project Ideas
-... in progress for 2025
-
-## Difficulty level: Hard
- * [wms: Support Of Simple Trajectory Calculations](/develop/GSOC/support_of_simple_trajectory_calculations)
-
-## Difficulty level: Medium
- * [cli: Improve Tutorials](/develop/GSOC/improve_tutorials)
- * [cli: Use MSS Figure Objects](/develop/GSOC/figure_objects)
- * [wms: Plot Gallery integrated](/develop/GSOC/integrated_plot_gallery)
- * [wms: Implement and support color bars being served](/develop/GSOC/color_bars_served)
- * [msui: View Layout and Restoring](/develop/GSOC/view_restoring)
- * [msui/mswms/mscolab: Replace pyfilesystem2](/develop/GSOC/replace_pyfilesystem2)
- * [msui/mscolab: Improve User Managment](/develop/GSOC/improve_user_managment)
- * [tests/mscolab/mswms: Flask native configuration](/develop/GSOC/flask_native)
- * [tests: Replace Multiprocessing](/develop/GSOC/replace_multiprocessing)
-
-## Your own idea
-
-The above projects are just suggestions --- it is also very good to suggest a project idea of your own if you have
-something in mind that you want to do. Ask people on the 
-[mailing list](https://lists.fz-juelich.de/mailman/listinfo/mss-info) for suggestions in this case.
-
+For the 2026 GSoC cycle, we've decided to take a break. [See our recent blog post!](https://open-mss.github.io/gsoc/stepping/back/for/now/2025/11/26/gsoc-stepping-back-for-now.html)
 
 
 

docs/05_help.md

@@ -19,9 +19,8 @@ During GSOC 2021 the base for the MSS tutorials got created by [Hrithik Kumar Ve
 For further tutorials:
 <https://mss.readthedocs.io/en/stable/tutorial.html>
 
-## Contact US
+## Contact us
 
-IRC: <https://web.libera.chat/?nick=Guest&#mss-gsoc> (This channel is synced to our gsoc slack channel)  
 IRC: <https://web.libera.chat/?nick=Guest&#mss-general> (This channel is synced to our general slack channel)
 
 Slack: [https://mss-devel.slack.com](https://mss-devel.slack.com) (invitation on request by email)

docs/_includes/social.html

@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@
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   {%- if site.googleplus_username -%}<li><a href="https://plus.google.com/{{ site.googleplus_username| escape }}"><svg class="svg-icon"><use xlink:href="{{ '/assets/minima-social-icons.svg#googleplus' | relative_url }}"></use></svg> <span class="username">{{ site.googleplus_username| escape }}</span></a></li>{%- endif -%}
   {%- if site.rss -%}<li><a href="{{ 'feed.xml' | relative_url }}"><svg class="svg-icon"><use xlink:href="{{ '/assets/minima-social-icons.svg#rss' | relative_url }}"></use></svg> <span>{{ site.rss | escape }}</span></a></li>{%- endif -%}
-  <li><a href="https://web.libera.chat/?nick=Guest&#mss-gsoc"><span class="svg-icon">{% include irc.svg %}</span><span class="username">&nbsp;&nbsp;#mss-gsoc</span></a></li>
   <li><a href="https://web.libera.chat/?nick=Guest&#mss-general"><span class="svg-icon">{% include irc.svg %}</span><span class="username">&nbsp;&nbsp;#mss-general</span></a></li>
   <li><a href="https://mss.readthedocs.io/en/stable/"><span class="svg-icon">{% include rtfd.svg %}</span><span class="username">&nbsp;&nbsp;mss.rtfd.io</span></a></li>
 </ul>