Qdrant Summer of Code 24

Qdrant, having participated in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program last year with successful projects, is launching its own Qdrant Summer of Code program after not being accepted into the 2024 GSoC. This initiative will follow the timelines and rules of the official Google program and offers a stipend for contributors to work on various projects in Rust or Python. Project ideas include implementing a dimension reduction algorithm in Rust with WASM integration, developing efficient BM25 and Okapi BM25 algorithms in Rust with Python bindings, exporting ONNX cross-encoder models for efficient re-ranking, creating ranking fusion algorithms in Rust, and designing Jepsen tests for Qdrant’s distributed guarantees. Applications for the program open on March 18th, and Qdrant encourages contributions to celebrate and promote open-source collaboration.