The ECMWF Summer of Weather Code (ESoWC) has been engaging external coders to work on open-source developments for the last five years. Several of the software solutions developed have advanced our web services, visualisation or other services. It has been an exciting opportunity for mentors from many sections across ECMWF to work with motivated participants from around the world, who receive a stipend of €5,000 per selected project.

ESoWC has become well known in the community and is becoming a key driver of innovation at ECMWF. However, with Earth-science-related services which ECMWF runs for the EU becoming more and more involved in ESoWC, the name no longer fully reflects what ESoWC is about. Also, the community addressed by the event is expanding. We have therefore decided to continue the event in 2023 under a new name: ‘Code for Earth’.

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