GSoC 2018 - Your project ideas

[Mengu]

On Tuesday, 5 December 2017 at 18:20:40 UTC, Seb wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2018 is about to start soon [1] 
> (the application period for organizations is in January 2018).
> Hence, I would very happy about any project ideas you have or 
> projects which are important to you.
> And, of course, if you would be willing to mentor a student, 
> please don't forget to tell me.
> You can always reach me via mail (seb [at] wilzba [dot] ch) or 
> on Slack (dlang.slack.com). There's also a special #gsoc 
> channel.
>
> [...]

do i have to be an actual student in order to participate?