We're planning to join Google Summer of Code with PySAL again this year. Though so far, it is not going well. We see a massive increase in people “wanting to get in touch and make a small contribution" before the student application window opens. PRs generated by LLMs, responses to our questions generated by LLMs (ffs!), demands to point them to easy issues, flooded Discord, private emails (ffs 2x!!). I've never seen this before. It is a DDoS on our maintenance capacity and I hate it all. #rant