Catalogue of Google Summer of Code 2018

The organization page of official website of Google Summer of Code is hard to retrieve. This repo contains a copy of all organization information.

3DTK

The 3D Toolkit provides algorithms and methods to process 3D point clouds

Ideas List | Description

Category: science_and_medicine
Techonology: c/c++, cmake, opencv, ros, boost
Topics: 3d, point clouds, slam, robotics, mapping
Tags: show, cmake, scanio, project, architectural
Contact: johannes.schauer@uni-wuerzburg.de
Mailing List: https://sourceforge.net/p/slam6d/discussion/
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPL-3.0)

52° North Initiative for Geospatial Open Source Software GmbH

52°North is an open source initiative in the field of geoinformatics. Core topics of our activities are for example sensor web, web-based geoprocessing and earth observation.

Ideas List | Description

Category: science_and_medicine
Techonology: javascript, java, spring, r, big data
Topics: geoinformatics, geoprocessing, remote sensing, geostatistics, sensor web
Tags: sensor web, geoprocessing, wps, remote sensing, geostatistics, r
Contact: gsoc@52north.org
Mailing List: https://wiki.52north.org/Projects/GSoC#Contact
Twitter: https://twitter.com/fivetwon?lang=en
Blog: https://blog.52north.org/
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPL-2.0)

AerospaceResearch.net

Making Space Together!

Ideas List | Description

Category: science_and_medicine
Techonology: python, c/c++, vhdl, boinc, java
Topics: cubesats, space applications, software defined radio, distributed computing, simulations
Tags: digital signal processing, software defined radio, gnss, cubesats, navigation, distributed computing, citizen science, simulations, space, big data
Contact: gsoc2018with@aerospaceresearch.net
Mailing List: https://lists.shackspace.de/mailman/listinfo/constellation
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ARDNnews
Blog: http://aerospaceresearch.net
Primary Open Source License: MIT license (MIT)

aimacode

Code to accompany the textbook "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach"

Ideas List | Description

Category: languages
Techonology: python, java, javascript, ai, jupyter
Topics: artificial intelligence, machine learning, education
Tags: java, javascript, python, exercises
Contact: peter.norvig+gsoc@gmail.com
Primary Open Source License: MIT license (MIT)

Amahi

Amahi is a home media/storage server with a web interface. It comes with mobile apps for easy streaming of your media and data

Ideas List | Description

Category: operating_systems
Techonology: ruby on rails, golang, swift, javascript, android
Topics: media server, storage server, streaming, web apps, front-end
Tags: ruby on rails, containers, ios, swift, golang, plugins
Contact: gsoc@amahi.org
Mailing List: http://forums.amahi.org
Twitter: http://twitter.com/amahi
Blog: http://blog.amahi.org
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPL-3.0)

AOSSIE - Australian Open Source Software Innovation and Education

The Australian umbrella organization for open-source projects.

Ideas List | Description

Category: web
Techonology: scala, isabelle proof assistant, browser extension, javascript/html5/css3, android/ios
Topics: logic, electronic voting, philosophy, environment, natural language processing
Tags: carbonfootprint-web, carbonfootprint-mobile, mind-the-word, agora, crowd-alert, scavenger, philosophy, stardroid
Contact: http://gitter.im/GSoC-AOSSIE/
Mailing List: http://aossie.org/#contact
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPL-3.0)

Apache Software Foundation

The Apache Software Foundation provides organizational, legal, and financial support for a broad range of open source software projects.

Ideas List | Description

Apertium

Apertium is a free/open-source project that aims to create machine translation systems and other types of language technology for all the languages in the world.

Ideas List | Description

Category: other
Techonology: c++, python, xml, fsts
Topics: machine translation, language technology, grammar, natural language processing
Tags: new language pair, engine code, new module, end-user interface, other
Contact: apertium-contact@lists.sourceforge.net
Mailing List: http://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Mailing_list
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPL-3.0)

Apertus Association

Developing Open Technology for Professional Film Production

Ideas List | Description

Category: graphics
Techonology: fpga, embedded, linux, c/c++, vhdl
Topics: vision, camera, cinematography, digital imaging, photography
Tags: fpga, c/c++, scripting, opencine, misc, kernel
Contact: team@apertus.org
Mailing List: https://www.apertus.org/mailinglists
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ApertusOSCinema
Blog: https://www.apertus.org/
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPL-3.0)

appleseedhq

appleseed is a modern, open source, physically-based global illumination rendering engine primarily designed for animation and visual effects.

Ideas List | Description

Category: graphics
Techonology: c/c++, qt
Topics: graphics, rendering, physics, mathematics, high performance
Tags: appleseed, appleseed.studio, appleseed-max, tools, rendering, optimization, ui
Contact: hello@appleseedhq.net
Mailing List: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/appleseed-dev
Twitter: https://twitter.com/appleseedhq
Primary Open Source License: MIT license (MIT)

ArduPilot

ArduPilot is the most widely used and advanced open source autopilot software available. Fast and flexible, it supports multicopters, plane, cars, submarines and more!

Ideas List | Description

Category: end_user_applications
Techonology: drones, python, linux, c/c++, robotics
Topics: vision, robotics, embedded systems, real-time os, drones
Tags: navigation, sensors, telemetry, video transmision, simulation, iot integration, dev env and simulation, ground control stations, perception, drones
Contact: ardupilot.devel@gmail.com
Mailing List: https://discuss.ardupilot.org/c/google-summer-of-code
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArduPilotTeam
Blog: https://discuss.ardupilot.org/c/blog
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPL-3.0)

BeagleBoard.org Foundation

Open source community of experienced hackers, hobbyists and engineers enthusiastic about building powerful, systems completely programmable through your browser

Ideas List | Description

Category: languages
Techonology: linux, gcc, real-time, physical computing, iot
Topics: robotics, ros, audio, iot, interfaces
Tags: linux, bootloader, userspace, audio, interfaces
Contact: info@beagleboard.org
Mailing List: https://beagleboard.org/discuss
Twitter: https://twitter.com/beagleboardorg
Blog: https://beagleboard.org/newsletter
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPL-2.0)

Beam Community

The BEAM Community is a group of projects that run on the Erlang VM. Our goal is to host relevant projects in the Erlang and Elixir communities.

Ideas List | Description

Category: languages
Techonology: erlang, xmpp
Topics: distributed computing, real time, distributed databases, iot, instant messaging
Tags: xmpp, distributed-computing, erlang, elixir, database, iot
Contact: contact@process-one.net
Mailing List: https://groups.google.com/d/forum/beam-community
Primary Open Source License: Apache License 2.0 (Apache-2.0)

BeeWare Project

Want to write an app in Python for your laptop, phone, tablet, set top box, or watch? BeeWare has all the tools you'll need.

Ideas List | Description

Category: languages
Techonology: python, ios, android, javascript, java
Topics: mobile, cross desktop, app development
Tags: voc, batavia, ouroboros, toga, briefcase, ios, android, windows, linux, macos
Contact: contact@pybee.org
Twitter: https://twitter.com/pybeeware
Blog: http://pybee.org/news/
Primary Open Source License: BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License (BSD-3-Clause)

Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University

The Berkman Klein Center's mission is to explore & understand cyberspace; study its development, dynamics, norms, standards; to assess the need or lack thereof for laws & sanctions

Ideas List | Description

Category: other
Techonology: ruby on rails, meteor.js, elasticsearch, javascript, elk
Topics: web, research, education, internet freedom, internet censorship
Tags: lumen, question tool, internet monitor, dotplot, copyrightx, book-a-nook, curricle, clahub
Contact: gsoc@cyber.harvard.edu
Mailing List: https://cyber.harvard.edu/getinvolved
Twitter: https://twitter.com/bkcharvard
Blog: https://blogs.harvard.edu/geeks/
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPL-2.0)

Blender Foundation

Blender is the free/open source 3D creation software for everyone, providing individuals and small teams a complete pipeline for 3D graphics, modeling, animation and games.

Ideas List | Description

Category: graphics
Techonology: c, c++, python, opengl, opencl
Topics: animation, rendering, 3d, games, simulation
Tags: simulation, 3d, rendering, games, tools, architecture, usability, vfx, animation, film
Contact: foundation@blender.org
Mailing List: http://projects.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
Twitter: https://twitter.com/blender_org
Blog: https://code.blender.org
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPL-2.0)

Boost C++ Libraries

Boost provides free peerreviewed portable C++ source libraries. We emphasize libraries that work well with the C++ Standard Library.

Ideas List | Description

Category: languages
Techonology: c++11, c++14, c++, c++17
Topics: c++ development, c++ tools, c++ standardization, software engineering
Tags: [gsoc18]
Contact: http://www.boost.org/community/irc.html
Mailing List: http://www.boost.org/community/groups.html
Primary Open Source License: Boost Software License (BSL-1.0)

Boston University / XIA

Finding the successor of TCP/IP is the ultimate goal of our project. If you are a proficient C or Python programmer and our mission inspires you, join our quest.

Ideas List | Description

Category: cloud
Techonology: xia, linux kernel, c, advanced data structures, ddos
Topics: computer networking, future internet architecture, research
Tags: userland nwp, xip tool, u6id principal, gt-gk channel, xia mininet, gatekeeper blackholing, other
Contact: http://groups.google.com/group/linux-xia
Mailing List: http://groups.google.com/group/linux-xia
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPL-2.0)

BRL-CAD

BRL-CAD is partnered with several computer-aided technologies (CAx) including LibreCAD, OpenSCAD, STEPcode, LinuxCNC, FreeCAD, & Slic3r. We do graphics, geometry, CAD, & more.

Ideas List | Description

Category: graphics
Techonology: c/c++, qt, opengl, opencl, tcl/tk
Topics: cad, geometry, 3d, graphics user interface, software visualization
Tags: brl-cad, freecad, librecad, stepcode, openscad, linuxcnc, slic3r
Contact: devs@brlcad.org
Mailing List: http://brlcad.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists
Twitter: https://twitter.com/BRL_CAD
Blog: http://fb.me/brlcad
Primary Open Source License: Apache License 2.0 (Apache-2.0)

Canadian Centre for Computational Genomics

The Canadian Centre for Computational Genomics provides bioinformatics analysis and High Performance Computing services for the life science research community

Ideas List | Description

Category: science_and_medicine
Techonology: r, perl, awk, bash, python
Topics: bioinformatics, data science, next-generation sequencing, visualization, statistics
Tags: bioinformatics, pipeline development, science data, visualization, statistics, genomics, genetics, r-project
Contact: info@computationalgenomics.ca
Mailing List: https://groups.google.com/a/computationalgenomics.ca/forum/?hl=en#!forum/gsoc2018
Twitter: https://twitter.com/C3Genomics
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPL-3.0)

Catrobat

We want to enable especially teenagers to learn how to code and how to create their own games, animations or apps in a user-friendly framework by sticking together simple blocks.

Ideas List | Description

Category: languages
Techonology: java, android, ios, espresso
Topics: programming language, app development, education, scratch
Tags: testing, refactoring, new features, modularization
Contact: contact@catrobat.org
Mailing List: http://catrob.at/mailinglist
Twitter: http://twitter.com/Pocket_Code
Primary Open Source License: GNU Affero General Public License v3 (AGPL-3.0)

CCExtractor Development

We write the de-facto standard open source tool for subtitles

Ideas List | Description

Category: graphics
Techonology: c, python, arduino, node.js, c#
Topics: media, subtitles, video, accesibility, language
Tags: new feature, improvement, my own idea
Contact: gsoc@ccextractor.org
Mailing List: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ccextractor-dev
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPL-2.0)

Center for Research In Open Source Software (CROSS) at UC Santa Cruz

CROSS at UC Santa Cruz turns OSS prototypes into successful open source software projects. Our projects are mentored by experts chosen specifically to best ensure success.

Ideas List | Description

Category: other
Techonology: ceph, hadoop, c++, javascript, python
Topics: distributed networks, reproducibility, storage systems, big data, opendata
Tags: hadoop/spark, nimble, ceph, reproducibility, c++, database, hybrid systems, popper
Contact: slieggi@ucsc.edu
Mailing List: https://cross.ucsc.edu/about/contact/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/@cross_ucsc
Blog: http://programmability.us/
Primary Open Source License: GNU Library or "Lesser" General Public License version 2.1 (LGPL-2.1)

CERN-HSF

CERN-HEP Software Foundation, umbrella organization for particle physics in GSoC

Ideas List | Description

Category: science_and_medicine
Techonology: c/c++, python, data analysis, machine learning, parallelization
Topics: particle physics, high-energy physics, physics, big data, machine learning
Tags: root, tmva, cms, atlas, sixtrack, scikit-hep, go-hep, geant4, geantv, pythia
Contact: hep-software-foundation-google-summer-of-code@googlegroups.com
Mailing List: http://hepsoftwarefoundation.org/activities/gsoc.html
Primary Open Source License: GNU Library or "Lesser" General Public License version 2.1 (LGPL-2.1)

CGAL Project

CGAL is a software project that provides easy access to efficient and reliable geometric algorithms in the form of a C++ library.

Ideas List | Description

Category: science_and_medicine
Techonology: c++, github, git
Topics: computational geometry, geometry, mesh processing, arrangement, webhook
Tags: mesh processing, qt5, arrangement, barycentric coordinates, point set processing, geometry
Contact: gsoc-cgal@inria.fr
Mailing List: http://www.cgal.org/mailing_list.html
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPL-3.0)

CHAOSS: Community Health Analytics Open Source Software

CHAOSS is for exploring metrics to make the health and sustainability of open source projects visible

Ideas List | Description

Category: end_user_applications
Techonology: python 3, javascript
Topics: data visualization, visualization, machine learning
Tags: open source health and sustainability, oss health and sustainability metrics, oss health and sustainabilty analytics, oss health and sustainability reporting, deep learning
Contact: germonprez@gmail.com
Mailing List: https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/chaoss/metrics
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPL-2.0)

Checker Framework

We build tools for programmers, to prevent run-time errors at compile time. These aren't just bug-finding tools. Our tools give a guarantee, but are easy to use.

Ideas List | Description

Category: languages
Techonology: java
Topics: programmer productivity, software engineering, verification, bug finding
Tags: new type system, case study, supporting tool, ui or build system support, other
Contact: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/checker-framework-gsoc
Mailing List: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/checker-framework-gsoc
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPL-2.0)

CiviCRM LLC

Estabished in 2005, CiviCRM is the leading open source CRM for nonprofits worldwide

Ideas List | Description

Category: end_user_applications
Techonology: php, mysql, angularjs, d3.js
Topics: civil society, contacts&calendar sync
Tags: new feature, optimization, new extension, test improvements
Contact: info@civicrm.org
Mailing List: https://civicrm.org/update-my-mailing-preferences
Twitter: https://twitter.com/civicrm
Blog: https://civicrm.org/blog
Primary Open Source License: Affero GNU Public License

Classical Language Toolkit

The Classical Language Toolkit brings state-of-the-art natural language processing to the languages and literatures of the ancient world.

Ideas List | Description

Category: other
Techonology: python, javascript
Topics: natural language processing, web
Tags: new language
Contact: kyle@kyle-p-johnson.com
Mailing List: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/classical-language-toolkit
Twitter: https://twitter.com/diyclassics
Blog: http://cltk.org/blog/
Primary Open Source License: MIT license (MIT)

CLiPS, University of Antwerp

The Computational Linguistics & Psycholinguistics Research Group of the University of Antwerp develops automatic text analysis systems that are accurate, efficient and robust.

Ideas List | Description

Category: data_and_databases
Techonology: python, javascript, mongodb
Topics: natural language processing, machine learning, artificial intelligence, text analytics, text generation
Tags: sentiment analysis, privacy protection, context-free generation, pattern 3, profiling dashboard
Contact: clips.gsoc@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/clipsua
Primary Open Source License: BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License (BSD-3-Clause)

Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)

The CNCF promotes cloud native computing across the industry and sustains open source cloud native projects such as Kubernetes, Prometheus, gRPC, Envoy and more!

Ideas List | Description

Category: cloud
Techonology: kubernetes, prometheus, grpc, docker, golang
Topics: cloud, container, monitoring, logging
Tags: new feature, optimization, kubernetes, envoy, prometheus, grpc, opentracing, logging, service mesh, security
Contact: info@cncf.io
Mailing List:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CloudNativeFdn
Blog: https://www.cncf.io/newsroom/blog/
Primary Open Source License: Apache License 2.0 (Apache-2.0)

CloudCV

CloudCV is an open source platform to make AI research reproducible by making it easy for researchers to build, compare, and share state-of-the-art AI algorithms.

Ideas List | Description

Category: cloud
Techonology: machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, artificial intelligence, cloud
Topics: python, tensorflow, django, angularjs, react
Tags: evalai, fabrik, origami
Contact: team@cloudcv.org
Mailing List: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/cloudcv
Twitter: https://twitter.com/project_cloudcv
Primary Open Source License: BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License (BSD-3-Clause)

coala

Linting and Fixing Code for All Languages

Ideas List | Description

Category: languages
Techonology: python 3, angularjs, haskell, docker, java
Topics: code analysis, chatops, devops
Tags: gitmate, corobo, integration, linter, coala
Contact: http://coala.io/chat
Mailing List: https://github.com/coala/coala/wiki/Mailing-Lists
Twitter: http://twitter.com/coala_io
Blog: https://blog.coala.io/
Primary Open Source License: Affero GNU Public License

Computational Biology @ University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Our organization develops tools for bioinformatics and computational biology research. Our goal is to further knowledge in health through data visualization and analysis.

Ideas List | Description

Category: science_and_medicine
Techonology: javascript, webgl, reactjs, flask
Topics: biological networks, bioinformatics, network simulation, computational biology, omics data
Tags: new feature, optimization, ccnetviz
Contact: helikarlab@gmail.com
Mailing List: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/helikarlab-gsoc
Primary Open Source License: Apache License 2.0 (Apache-2.0)

Conversations.im

Conversations started out as an easy to use Jabber client for the Android platform but quickly became an umbrella project for all sorts of UX improvements to the XMPP ecosystem.

Ideas List | Description

Category: social_communications
Techonology: java, android, linux, jabber, xmpp
Topics: instant messaging, mobile
Tags: android client, desktop client, server, tooling, ecosystem improvement
Contact: gsoc@conversations.im
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPL-3.0)

Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative

CDLI is an international digital library offering in open access images, text and metadata of ancient Near Eastern artifacts inscribed with cuneiform.

Ideas List | Description

Category: data_and_databases
Techonology: python, mariadb, rdf, php, nltk
Topics: natural language processing, machine translation, information retrieval, linguistics, semantic web
Tags: experiment, open access, data processing, information extraction, computer vision, classification, enhancement, academic research, network analysis, linked open data
Contact: cdli@ucla.edu
Mailing List:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/cdli_news
Primary Open Source License: MIT license (MIT)

DBpedia

DBpedia is a crowd-sourced community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia and make this information available on the Web.

Ideas List | Description

Category: data_and_databases
Techonology: rdf, scala, sparql
Topics: knowledge graph, data extraction, data analytics
Tags: natural language processing, machine learning, data quality, optimization
Contact: dbpedia@infai.org
Mailing List: http://wiki.dbpedia.org/join/get-in-touch
Twitter: https://twitter.com/dbpedia
Blog: http://blog.dbpedia.org/
Primary Open Source License: Apache License 2.0 (Apache-2.0)

Debian Project

Debian is the free operating system, based on the GNU/Linux kernel. With tens of thousands of software packages available, Debian is a broad, robust, and extensible project.

Ideas List | Description

Category: operating_systems
Techonology: javascript, ruby, java, python, c/c++
Topics: operating system, packaging, applications, community, communications
Tags: fdroid, key management, gpg, virtual machines, sso
Contact: debian-outreach@lists.debian.org
Mailing List: https://lists.debian.org/debian-outreach/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/debian
Blog: https://planet.debian.org/
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPL-3.0)

Developers Italia

We are a community dedicated to the development of software to support digital services for citizens. Born in the Italian government, but of course: code has no borders.

Ideas List | Description

Category: other
Techonology: python, ruby, node.js, java, c/c++
Topics: government, open data, identity, data-science
Tags: daf, spid, 18app, design, security, pagopa, anpr, infrastructure
Contact: teamdigitale@governo.it
Mailing List:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ITdigitalteam
Blog: https://medium.com/team-per-la-trasformazione-digitale/english/home
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPL-3.0)

Digital Impact Alliance

The DIAL Open Source Center is a collaborative space for many different open source software projects serving the international development and humanitarian response sectors.

Ideas List | Description

Category: end_user_applications
Techonology: android, java, php, python, javascript
Topics: humanitarian, international, social good, charity, health
Tags: openlmis, hot, sumsarizer
Contact: gsoc@dial.community
Mailing List: https://forum.osc.dial.community/c/community/soc
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DIAL_Community
Blog: https://digitalimpactalliance.org/blog/
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPL-3.0)

Django Software Foundation

Django is a high-level Python Web framework originally designed to build high-performing, elegant Web applications quickly.

Ideas List | Description

Category: web
Techonology: python, django
Topics: web development, web, web applications
Tags: new feature, optimization
Contact: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/internals/contributing/new-contributors/
Mailing List: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/internals/mailing-lists/#django-developers
Twitter: https://twitter.com/djangoproject/
Blog: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/
Primary Open Source License: BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License (BSD-3-Clause)

Drupal

Drupal is an open source content mgmt platform powering millions of sites and app. It’s built, used, and supported by an active and diverse community of people around the world.

Ideas List | Description

Category: web
Techonology: web, web development, content management system, cms, object-oriented
Topics: php, symfony, sql, javascript, drupal 8
Tags: drupal 8 module port, new module, api integration, new features, migration
Contact: lechleider.matthew@gmail.com
Mailing List: https://groups.drupal.org/google-summer-code
Twitter: https://twitter.com/drupal
Blog: https://www.drupal.org/planet
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPL-2.0)

Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)

ESIP is a nonprofit that supports an open, networked community of science, data and information technology practitioners. ESIP is supported by NASA, NOAA, USGS and 110 member orgs.

Ideas List | Description

Category: data_and_databases
Techonology: kubernetes, dask, xarray, python, javascript
Topics: earth data, semantics, discovery, data visualization, earth science
Tags: nasa, noaa, open data, data discoverability, semantic technologies, data stewardship, cloud computing, interoperability, usability, data documentation
Contact: lab@esipfed.org
Mailing List: http://www.lists.esipfed.org/mailman/listinfo/esip-all
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ESIPfed
Blog: http://esipfed.org/news
Primary Open Source License: Apache License 2.0 (Apache-2.0)

Elastic

We are the creators of Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash — the Elastic Stack. Securely and reliably search, analyze, and visualize your data.

Ideas List | Description

Category: data_and_databases
Techonology: java, golang, node.js, react, jruby
Topics: data analytics, data visualization, monitoring, search, logging
Tags: elasticsearch, kibana, beats, logstash, client, feature, optimization, integration
Contact: community@elastic.co
Twitter: https://twitter.com/elastic
Blog: https://www.elastic.co/blog
Primary Open Source License: Apache License 2.0 (Apache-2.0)

Eta

Eta is a pure, lazy, strongly typed functional programming language on the JVM. It brings the mighty, JVM and Haskell ecosystems, together.

Ideas List | Description

Category: languages
Techonology: haskell, jvm, java
Topics: functional-programming, runtime systems, compilers, programming-tools
Tags: performance optimization, ide, libraries
Contact: etalanguage@gmail.com
Mailing List: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/eta-discuss
Twitter: https://twitter.com/eta_lang
Blog: https://blog.eta-lang.org/
Primary Open Source License: BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License (BSD-3-Clause)

Fedora Project

Advance Free/Open Source Software/Content. Fedora is more than just one technology or concept it is a larger collaborative community.

Ideas List | Description

Category: operating_systems
Techonology: linux, python, git, postgresql, ansible
Topics: linux distribution, desktop, community, web development, server
Tags: continuous integration/deployment (ci/cd), development:python, development:web / app development, metrics, web services, messaging, infrastructure:authentication/fas/krb5, development:general, community, propose your own idea
Contact: summer-coding@lists.fedoraproject.org
Mailing List: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/summer-coding@lists.fedoraproject.org
Twitter: https://twitter.com/fedora
Blog: https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org
Primary Open Source License: MIT license (MIT)

FFmpeg

FFmpeg is the complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video.

Ideas List | Description

Category: graphics
Techonology: c, asm, git
Topics: audio, video, multimedia, subtitles
Tags: image format, video codec, audio codec, asm optimizations, multimedia filter
Contact: http://ffmpeg.org/contact.html#IRCChannels
Mailing List: http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ffmpeg
Primary Open Source License: GNU Library or "Lesser" General Public License version 2.1 (LGPL-2.1)

FOSSASIA

Improving people's lives around the world with software and hardware for conversational AIs, science and event management.

Ideas List | Description

Category: web
Techonology: java, javascript, python, android, artificial intelligence
Topics: web development, artificial intelligence, personal assistants
Tags: artificial intelligence, android, web, python, front-end, back-end, server, javascript, hardware, api
Contact: fossasia@googlegroups.com
Mailing List: http://groups.google.com/group/fossasia
Twitter: https://twitter.com/fossasia
Blog: https://blog.fossasia.org
Primary Open Source License: GNU Library or "Lesser" General Public License version 3.0 (LGPL-3.0)

FOSSology

FOSSology is a open source license compliance software system and toolkit, a database and web UI are provided to analyze OSS packages for their licensing at very much detail.

Ideas List | Description

Category: other
Techonology: php, postgresql, lamp, linux, c/c++
Topics: licensing, open source, license compliance, compliance, spdx
Tags: spdx, scanning, new agents
Contact: fossology@fossology.org
Mailing List: https://www.fossology.org/about/contact/#mailing-lists
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPL-2.0)

Free and Open Source Silicon Foundation

Umbrella for various projects around open source hardware and tools

Ideas List | Description

Category: other
Techonology: fpga, verilog, c, chisel, synthesis
Topics: open hardware, debugging, eda tools, web community
Tags: own core, librecores, open soc debug, ghdl, fusesoc, tl-x, yosys, limesdr, kactus, other
Contact: gsoc@fossi-foundation.org
Mailing List: https://lists.librecores.org/listinfo/discussion
Twitter: https://twitter.com/fossifoundation
Blog: https://fossi-foundation.org/news/
Primary Open Source License: MIT license (MIT)

Free UK Genealogy

Free UK Genealogy provides free access to over 400 million records. The databases, search engines and user interfaces are largely designed and maintained by volunteers.

Ideas List | Description

Category: data_and_databases
Techonology: mongodb, ruby on rails, mysql, python, css/html
Topics: ai, machine learning, ui/ux, web apps, open data
Tags: feature, optimisation, enhancement, user experience, freereg, freecen, freeukgen, backend, front-end, ai
Contact: soc@freeukgenealogy.org.uk
Mailing List: http://www.freeukgenealogy.org.uk
Twitter: https://twitter.com/FreeUKGen
Blog: https://www.freeukgenealogy.org.uk/news/
Primary Open Source License: Apache License 2.0 (Apache-2.0)

FreeBSD

An advanced operating system for modern server, desktop, and embedded platforms which can be found powering everything from the smallest home routers to the world's busiest servers

Ideas List | Description

Category: operating_systems
Techonology: c/c++, llvm, shell script, assembly, make
Topics: virtualization, kernel, cloud, embedded systems, security
Tags: kernel, ports, embedded, security, userland, build-chain
Contact: soc-admins@FreeBSD.org
Mailing List: https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers
Twitter: https://twitter.com/freebsd
Blog: https://planet.FreeBSD.org/
Primary Open Source License: BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" or "FreeBSD" License (BSD-2-Clause)

FreeType

A software library written in C to render fonts.

Ideas List | Description

Category: graphics
Techonology: c, gnu make, gnu autotools, python, fonts
Topics: fonts, truetype, opentype, graphics, rendering
Tags: fuzzing support, test framework, new font format, documentation improvement, new feature
Contact: https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel
Mailing List: https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPL-2.0)

freifunk

freifunk is part of a global movement for free infrastructure. Our vision is the democratization of media with free networks. Wireless communities implement this idea worldwide.

Ideas List | Description

Category: social_communications
Techonology: openwrt, javascript, html, c, python
Topics: network, wireless, web applications, embedded systems, software-defined networking
Tags: ninux, retroshare, firmware, qaul.net, routing, monitoring, wlan slovenija, web apps, openwrt
Contact: gsoc-org-admins@freifunk.net
Mailing List: https://lists.freifunk.net/mailman/listinfo/wlanware-freifunk.net
Twitter: https://twitter.com/freifunk
Blog: https://blog.freifunk.net
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPL-3.0)

Genes, Genomes and Variation

The Ensembl project maintains and updates databases that annotate a wide number of genome sequences and distributes them freely to the worldwide research community.

Ideas List | Description

Category: science_and_medicine
Techonology: perl, mysql, java script
Topics: data visualization, genomics, database, bioinformatics
Tags: bioinformatics, workflows, visualization
Contact: helpdesk@ensembl.org
Mailing List: http://lists.ensembl.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ensembl
Blog: http://www.ensembl.info/
Primary Open Source License: Apache License 2.0 (Apache-2.0)

GENIVI Alliance

The GENIVI Alliance provides an open connectivity platform that accelerates innovative solutions based on open software for In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) systems.

Ideas List | Description

Category: operating_systems
Techonology: yocto, c/c++, java
Topics: automotive, diagnostics, functional safety, middleware
Tags: new feature, testing, yocto, qemu, debian-packaging
Contact: genivi-projects@lists.genivi.org
Mailing List: https://lists.genivi.org/mailman/listinfo/genivi-projects
Twitter: https://twitter.com/GENIVIAlliance
Primary Open Source License: Mozilla Public License 2.0 (MPL-2.0)

Gentoo Foundation

A flexible, source-based Linux distribution.

Ideas List | Description

Category: operating_systems
Techonology: shell script, bash, c/c++, python, linux
Topics: operating systems, package management, embedded systems, security, init systems
Tags: virtualization, security, linux, embedded, operating systems, new features, improvement, openrc, eudev, ovirt
Contact: gentoo-soc@lists.gentoo.org
Mailing List: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2018/Application_Guidelines
Twitter: https://twitter.com/gentoo
Blog: https://planet.gentoo.org/
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPL-2.0)

GFOSS - Open Technologies Alliance

GFOSS – Open Technologies Alliance is a non-profit organization, with 35 Universities and Research Centers as its shareholders. Our main goal is to promote Openness.

Ideas List | Description

Category: other
Techonology: python 3, php/javascript/html, css/html, java, c/c++
Topics: python, gtk, java jsp, c++ tools, javascript
Tags: epoptes, scriptum, clio, wso2, cscout, filesdb, diavgeia, netdata, moodle, codification
Contact: admin@eellak.gr
Mailing List: http://opensource-devs@ellak.gr
Twitter: https://twitter.com/gfoss
Blog: http://ellak.gr
Primary Open Source License: European Union Public License, Version 1.1 (EUPL-1.1)

Git

Git is the most widely-used revision control system in Open Source. It is a distributed system with an emphasis on speed, data integrity, and support for many workflows.

Ideas List | Description

Category: languages
Techonology: c, shell script, git
Topics: version control, dvcs
Tags: new feature, refactoring, libgit2
Contact: git@vger.kernel.org
Mailing List: http://git-scm.com/community
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPL-2.0)

Global Alliance for Genomics and Health

The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) is a policy-framing and technical standards-setting organization, seeking to enable responsible genomic data sharing.

Ideas List | Description

Category: science_and_medicine
Techonology: java, python, cloud, c/c++, mongodb
Topics: genomics, genetics, standards, bioinformatics, web
Tags: clinical and phenotypic data capture, discovery, large scale genomics, cloud
Contact: gsoc@genomicsandhealth.org
Mailing List:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ga4gh
Blog: https://www.ga4gh.org/news/
Primary Open Source License: Apache License 2.0 (Apache-2.0)

GNOME

GNOME offers an easy to understand desktop and applications for your GNU/Linux computer.

Ideas List | Description

Category: operating_systems
Techonology: c, python, javascript, gtk+, gobject
Topics: desktop, applications, end user applications, operating system
Tags: desktop, application, gnome, sandboxing, ui, feature, optimization, middleware, operating systems
Contact: https://wiki.gnome.org/Community/GettingInTouch
Twitter: https://twitter.com/gnome
Blog: https://planet.gnome.org/
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPL-3.0)

GNSS-SDR

GNSS-SDR is a GNSS software receiver, written in C++, that is able to work from raw signal samples and performs all the signal processing until the Position-Velocity-Time solution.

Ideas List | Description

Category: science_and_medicine
Techonology: c/c++, gnss, c++11, c++14
Topics: gnss, navigation, digital signal processing, software defined radio, communications engineering
Tags: beidou, new feature, enhancement, optimization, gui, kalman filter, frame synchronization, anti-jamming, data types
Contact: carles.fernandez@cttc.es
Mailing List: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gnss-sdr-developers
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPL-3.0)

GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)

The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) is a compiler system produced by the GNU Project supporting various programming languages and a variety of native and cross targets.

Ideas List | Description

Category: languages
Techonology: c++, c, openmp
Topics: compilers
Tags: openmp, sanitizer, optimization, front-end, back-end, middle-end, math_builtins
Contact: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Mailing List: https://gcc.gnu.org/lists.html
Twitter: https://twitter.com/gnutools
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPL-3.0)

GNU Octave

GNU Octave is a high-level interpreted language, primarily intended for numerical computations.

Ideas List | Description

Category: languages
Techonology: c++, hg
Topics: mathematics, numerical computation, matlab, scientific computing, numerical methods
Tags: numerical, infrastructure, octave forge, image analysis, gui, graphics, new feature, performance, matlab compatibility
Contact: octave-maintainers@gnu.org
Mailing List: https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/octave-maintainers
Blog: http://planet.octave.org/
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPL-3.0)

GNU Project

GNU is an operating system that is free software. The development of GNU made it possible to use a computer without software that would trample your freedom.

Ideas List | Description

Category: operating_systems
Techonology: c, lisp, python
Topics: free software, operating system
Tags: new feature, bug fixing, stable release
Contact: https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/summer-of-code
Mailing List: https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/summer-of-code
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPL-3.0)

GNU Radio

GNU Radio is a free & open-source software development toolkit that provides signal processing blocks to design, test and implement software radios.

Ideas List | Description

Category: end_user_applications
Techonology: c++, python, simd, qt
Topics: software defined radio, real-time, communications engineering, cybersecurity, dsp
Tags: qt gui, grc, android, fec, sigmf, modtool, ctrlport, filterdesign, radar, inspector
Contact: https://wiki.gnuradio.org/index.php/IRC
Mailing List: https://wiki.gnuradio.org/index.php/MailingLists
Twitter: https://twitter.com/gnuradio
Blog: https://www.gnuradio.org/blog/
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPL-3.0)

Godot Engine

With a feature-packed and cross-platform 2D and 3D editor, Godot is today's most mature FOSS game engine with an ever growing worldwide community of contributors and users.

Ideas List | Description

Category: graphics
Techonology: c++, cpp, opengl, github, crossplatform
Topics: game engine, gaming, game development, rendering, virtual reality
Tags: new feature, optimization, refactoring
Contact: contact@godotengine.org
Twitter: https://twitter.com/godotengine
Blog: https://godotengine.org/news
Primary Open Source License: MIT license (MIT)

gRPC

gRPC - A high performance, open-source universal RPC framework

Ideas List | Description

Category: cloud
Techonology: grpc, microservices, distributed systems, cloud
Topics: microservices, communications, distributed networks, infrastructure, middleware
Tags: usability, performance, fuzzing, building, verification, http/2
Contact: grpc-io@googlegroups.com
Mailing List: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/grpc-io
Twitter: https://twitter.com/grpcio
Blog: http://grpc.io/blog
Primary Open Source License: Apache License 2.0 (Apache-2.0)

Haiku

Specifically targeting personal computing, Haiku is a fast, efficient, simple to use, easy to learn, and yet very powerful operating system.

Ideas List | Description

Category: operating_systems
Techonology: c++, webkit, ffmpeg, posix, bsd unix
Topics: desktop, network, kernel, graphics, media
Tags: applications, drivers, kernel, media, network, user interface, other
Contact: https://www.haiku-os.org/community/irc
Mailing List: https://www.haiku-os.org/community/ml
Twitter: https://twitter.com/haikuOS
Primary Open Source License: MIT license (MIT)

Haskell.org

Haskell is an advanced, purely functional programming language. It boasts a strong type system with type inference. It compiles to fast native code with a concurrent runtime.

Ideas List | Description

Category: languages
Techonology: haskell
Topics: functional-programming, programming languages
Tags: haskell, compilers, libraries, package managers, functional programming
Contact: committee@haskell.org
Mailing List: https://www.haskell.org/mailing-lists
Twitter: https://twitter.com/haskellorg
Primary Open Source License: BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License (BSD-3-Clause)

Homebrew

Homebrew is an open source, console package manager for macOS.

Ideas List | Description

Category: languages
Techonology: ruby, git, macos, rspec, bash
Topics: package managers, macos, terminal applications, github
Tags: homebrew/brew, homebrew/homebrew-core, caskroom/homebrew-cask
Contact: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew#community
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MacHomebrew
Blog: https://brew.sh/blog/
Primary Open Source License: BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" or "FreeBSD" License (BSD-2-Clause)

INCF

INCF coordinates scientific community activity to enable the integration of neuroscience data & knowledge worldwide, and catalyze insights into brain function in health and disease

Ideas List | Description

Category: science_and_medicine
Techonology: python, c/c++, javascript, cuda, xml
Topics: neuroscience, big data, brain simulation, brain imaging, visualization
Tags: gnode project, brian projects, genn projects, openworm projects, tvb projects, moose projects, other project, imagej project
Contact: gsoc@incf.org
Twitter: https://twitter.com/incforg
Primary Open Source License: BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License (BSD-3-Clause)

Inclusive Design Institute

The IDI is a generative hub of applied research that addresses the challenge of designing our ICT systems so that they consider the full range of human diversity.

Ideas List | Description

Category: end_user_applications
Techonology: javascript, html, css, node.js, php
Topics: accessibility, inclusivity, web, web applications, web development
Tags: achecker, fluid, phet
Contact: https://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/IRC+Channel
Mailing List: https://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Mailing+Lists
Twitter: https://twitter.com/FluidProject
Primary Open Source License: BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License (BSD-3-Clause)

Inkscape

An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.

Ideas List | Description

Category: graphics
Techonology: svg, css, c++11, python, gtk+
Topics: graphics, web, geometry
Tags: css, text, import/export, refactor/rewrite, color management, geometry, performance
Contact: https://inkscape.org/en/community/discussion/
Mailing List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel
Twitter: https://twitter.com/inkscape
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPL-3.0)

Inria Foundation

This project aims at interfacing two C++ libraries for medical simulation in order to aim at highly realistic modeling of the human body

Ideas List | Description

Category: science_and_medicine
Techonology: c/c++, qt, webassembly, asm, communication protocol
Topics: medical simulation, medical research, physics, real-time, scientific computing
Tags: integration, plugin, science
Contact: consortium@sofa-framework.org
Mailing List: https://www.sofa-framework.org/community/get-involved/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SofaFramework
Blog: https://www.sofa-framework.org/community/forum/
Primary Open Source License: GNU Library or "Lesser" General Public License version 2.1 (LGPL-2.1)

Institute for Artificial Intelligence

The Institute for Artificial Intelligence is part of the Faculty of Computer Science and member of the Center for Computing and Communication Technologies at University of Bremen.

Ideas List | Description

Category: science_and_medicine
Techonology: c++, python, ros, unreal engine, lisp
Topics: artificial intelligence, robotics, simulation, unreal engine, perception
Tags: pracmln, robosherlock, openease, robcog, ros2, ue_editor, cram
Contact: https://gitter.im/iai_gsoc18/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/iai_bremen?lang=en
Blog: http://ai.uni-bremen.de/
Primary Open Source License: BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License (BSD-3-Clause)

Intel Media And Audio For Linux

This family of media software, including libVA, VAAPI-Intel-Driver, GStreamer-vaapi, GStreamer-MediaSDK, libyami and libxcam.

Ideas List | Description

Category: graphics
Techonology: video, codecs, hardware acceleration, va-api, c
Topics: video decode, video encode, video post processing, hardware accelerated media processing, video apis
Tags: libva, ,intel-vaapi-driver, gstreamer-vaapi, gstreamer-mediasdk, libyami, libxcam, libva-utils, libyami-utils
Contact: sreerenj.balachandran@intel.com
Mailing List: https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-vaapi-media
Blog: https://01.org/linuxmedia/blogs
Primary Open Source License: MIT license (MIT)

InterMine

InterMine is an open source biological data warehouse, providing a web-based user interface, sophisticated search and analysis tools and APIs to access the data programmatically.

Ideas List | Description

Category: science_and_medicine
Techonology: postgresql, java, javascript, python, clojure
Topics: biology, genomics, data science, open science, bioinformatics
Tags: search, client side, api library, testing, custom proposal, clojure
Contact: info@intermine.org
Mailing List: http://intermine.readthedocs.io/en/latest/support/mailing-list/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/intermineorg
Blog: https://intermineorg.wordpress.com/
Primary Open Source License: GNU Library or "Lesser" General Public License version 2.1 (LGPL-2.1)

Internet Archive

We are a non-profit digital library based in San Francisco. We are best known for being the home for the Wayback Machine (web.archive.org)

Ideas List | Description

Category: web
Techonology: pthon, javascript
Topics: web extensions, voice apps, web archiving
Tags: gsoc
Contact: mark@archive.org
Twitter: https://twitter.com/internetarchive
Blog: http://blog.archive.org
Primary Open Source License: GNU Affero General Public License v3 (AGPL-3.0)

Internet Systems Consortium

ISC develops and maintains quality open source and services to support the Internet infrastructure.

Ideas List | Description

Category: operating_systems
Techonology: dhcp, c/c++, mysql, cassandra, rest
Topics: networking, stateful, infrastructure, ipv6
Tags: c++, dhcp, ipv6, rest
Contact: info@isc.org
Mailing List: https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/kea-dev
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ISCdotORG
Blog: https://www.isc.org/community/blogs/
Primary Open Source License: Mozilla Public License 2.0 (MPL-2.0)

JBoss Community

JBoss Community is a community of open source projects primarily written in Java.

Ideas List | Description

Category: languages
Techonology: java, android, ios, opentracing, apache kafka
Topics: testing, cloud, mobile development, javaee, microservices
Tags: aerogear, openshift, kafka, wildfly swarm
Contact: https://developer.jboss.org/wiki/JBossGSoCContactInformation
Mailing List: https://developer.jboss.org/wiki/JBossGSoCContactInformation
Primary Open Source License: Apache License 2.0 (Apache-2.0)

JdeRobot - Universidad Rey Juan Carlos

JdeRobot is a software development framework for Robotics and Computer Vision applications. It is ROS friendly, uses Python, C++, JS. Includes tools and a robotics teaching suite

Ideas List | Description

Category: other
Techonology: ros, python, c++, gazebo, opencv
Topics: robotics, computer vision, robot simulator, teaching
Tags: ros, teaching robotics, gazebo, automata, deep learning, slam, rgbd, visual programming
Contact: josemaria.plaza@gmail.com
Mailing List: http://jderobot.org/Collaborate#Mailing_List
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jderobot?lang=en
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPL-3.0)

Jenkins project

Jenkins is the open source automation server. Built primarily in Java, it provides hundreds of plugins to support building, testing, deploying and automating virtually any project.

Ideas List | Description

Category: languages
Techonology: java, groovy, javascript
Topics: devops, development tools, continuous integration
Tags: new feature, plugin, plugin developer tools, user experience, performance
Contact: jenkinsci-gsoc-orgs@googlegroups.com
Mailing List: https://jenkins.io/projects/gsoc/#contacts
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jenkinsci
Blog: https://jenkins.io/node/
Primary Open Source License: MIT license (MIT)

JGraphT

If you sometimes wake up in a cold sweat from a dream involving a polynomial-time algorithm for deciding graph isomorphism, then this is the project for you!

Ideas List | Description

Category: languages
Techonology: java
Topics: graphs, algorithms, data structures, mathematics, network analysis
Tags: website, algorithm, importexport, performance, data structures
Contact: admin@jgrapht.org
Mailing List: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/jgrapht-gsoc
Primary Open Source License: GNU Library or "Lesser" General Public License version 2.1 (LGPL-2.1)

Jitsi

Jitsi is a set of open-source projects that allows you to easily build and deploy secure videoconferencing solutions.

Ideas List | Description

Category: social_communications
Techonology: java, javascript, webrtc, react, react native
Topics: real time communications, web, video conferencing, networking, multimedia
Tags: new feature, optimization, mobile, client-side, server-side
Contact: gsoc@jitsi.org
Mailing List: https://jitsi.org/mailing-lists/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jitsinews
Blog: https://jitsi.org/news/
Primary Open Source License: Apache License 2.0 (Apache-2.0)

Joomla!

Joomla is a free and open source CMS powering over 3.2% of the internet which enables you to build web sites and online apps. Joomla is an object oriented PHP application.

Ideas List | Description

Category: web
Techonology: php, javascript, mysql, html5/css3, cms
Topics: web, web development, web applications, cms, object-oriented
Tags: web services, multilingual, media manager, command line, testing, tags, json, sql, php, javascript
Contact: gsoc@opensourcematters.org
Mailing List: https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!forum/jgsoc
Twitter: https://twitter.com/joomla
Blog: https://magazine.joomla.org
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPL-2.0)

JSK Robotics Laboratory / The University of Tokyo

Research in JSK laboratory is focusing on the fundamental functions and systems for future intelligent robots that will live and work in the daily life field and human society.

Ideas List | Description

Category: science_and_medicine
Techonology: ros
Topics: robotics
Tags: supporting common lisp specifications in euslisp, knowledge exchange between two humanoids using euslisp and openease robotics systems, realtime gc for robot applications, running 18 meter tall simulated humanoid robot in hrpsys / gazebo, ros web tools for robotics application, trajectory optimization in moveit, more integration of pcl-ros, others
Contact: k-okada+gsoc@jsk.imi.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Twitter: https://twitter.com/pr2jsk
Primary Open Source License: BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License (BSD-3-Clause)

KDE Community

The KDE community produces Free and Open Source Software and brings together artists, designers, programmers, translators, users, writers and other contributors from everywhere.

Ideas List | Description

Category: end_user_applications
Techonology: qt, c/c++, qml
Topics: applications, desktop environment
Tags: plasma, kde frameworks, kdevelop, krita
Contact: kde-soc@kde.org
Mailing List: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-soc
Twitter: https://twitter.com/kdecommunity
Blog: https://planet.kde.org/
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPL-3.0)

Kiwix

Kiwix brings internet content to people without internet access. With it, anyone is able to download a copy of Wikipedia and store it on their phone or computer.

Ideas List | Description

Category: end_user_applications
Techonology: android, java, c++, python, qt
Topics: offline, android
Tags: feature, improvement, testing
Contact: gsoc@kiwix.org
Twitter: https://twitter.com/kiwixoffline
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPL-3.0)

LabLua

LabLua is a programming languages research lab, with emphasis on the Lua language and reactive programming.

Ideas List | Description

Category: languages
Techonology: lua, céu
Topics: programming languages
Tags: ceu, lpeg, titan, lunatik
Contact: http://groups.google.com/group/labluagsoc
Mailing List: http://groups.google.com/group/labluagsoc
Primary Open Source License: MIT license (MIT)

languagetool.org

LanguageTool is a multi-language proofreading tool. It can be used on the web, via HTTP API, or as a Java API.

Ideas List | Description

Category: end_user_applications
Techonology: java, javascript, machine learning, ai, tensorflow
Topics: artificial intelligence, language, edtech, education, nlp
Tags: browser-add-on, artificial-intelligence, integration
Contact: daniel.naber@languagetool.org
Mailing List: https://forum.languagetool.org
Twitter: https://twitter.com/languagetoolorg
Primary Open Source License: GNU Library or "Lesser" General Public License version 2.1 (LGPL-2.1)

LEAP Encryption Access Project

We make end-to-end encryption widely available and easy to use.

Ideas List | Description

Category: end_user_applications
Techonology: python, twisted, javascript, openvpn, gnupg
Topics: e2e, mail, vpn, encryption
Tags: optimization, soledad, mail, new-app, library, vpn, platform
Contact: info@leap.se
Mailing List: https://leap.se/en/docs/get-involved/communication
Twitter: https://twitter.com/leapcode
Blog: https://leap.se/en/about-us/news
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPL-3.0)

LibreHealth

LibreHealth is a worldwide ecosystem of open source Health IT innovation, and is a place where people can come together to build tools that enhance the quality of healthcare.

Ideas List | Description

Category: science_and_medicine
Techonology: java, php, javascript, mysql, webcomponents
Topics: web apps, health, ictd
Tags: health, gitlab, bugs
Contact: community@librehealth.io
Mailing List: https://forums.librehealth.io
Twitter: https://twitter.com/librehealthio
Primary Open Source License: Mozilla Public License 2.0 (MPL-2.0)

LibreOffice

LibreOffice is a lively and diverse community, delivering a full-featured cross-platform office suite. We value new contributors, just as we prize Open Source and Open Standards.

Ideas List | Description

Category: end_user_applications
Techonology: c++, java, python
Topics: end user applications, office suite, desktop application, android
Tags: c++, python, java, new idea, online, writer, calc, ux, impress
Contact: libreoffice@lists.freedesktop.org
Mailing List: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Mailing_List
Twitter: https://twitter.com/libreoffice
Blog: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/
Primary Open Source License: Mozilla Public License 2.0 (MPL-2.0)

libvirt

Libvirt is a library and toolkit providing abstraction for various hypervisors. It can be used from a number of languages.

Ideas List | Description

Category: cloud
Techonology: hypervisor, kvm, xen, lxc
Topics: virtualization, virtual machine, container
Tags: not listed on the wiki
Contact: http://libvirt.org/contact.html#irc
Mailing List: http://libvirt.org/contact.html#email
Twitter: https://twitter.com/#libvirt
Blog: http://planet.virt-tools.org/
Primary Open Source License: GNU Library or "Lesser" General Public License version 2.1 (LGPL-2.1)

LLVM Compiler Infrastructure

The LLVM Project is a collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies.

Ideas List | Description

Category: languages
Techonology: llvm
Topics: compilers, compiler api
Tags: llvm, clang, polly, lld
Contact: llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org
Mailing List: http://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/llvm-dev
Twitter: https://twitter.com/llvmorg
Blog: http://blog.llvm.org
Primary Open Source License: University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License (NCSA)

LuaRocks

LuaRocks is the package manager for Lua, a tiny yet powerful language used anywhere from embedded systems to MMORPGs. LuaRocks turbo-charges Lua with packages for every field!

Ideas List | Description

Category: languages
Techonology: lua, linux, windows, unix, c
Topics: programming language, package manager
Tags: project from the list, new project idea
Contact: http://gitter.im/luarocks
Twitter: https://twitter.com/luarocksorg
Primary Open Source License: MIT license (MIT)

MariaDB Foundation

MariaDB is a default MySQL replacement in many Linux distributions. It offers many feature enhancements including new storage engines, advanced optimizations, and other features.

Ideas List | Description

Category: data_and_databases
Techonology: mariadb, mysql, c, c++, java
Topics: database, sql
Tags: plugin, optimizer, replication, server, connector/c, connector/j, connector/odbc, client
Contact: maria-discuss@lists.launchpad.net
Mailing List: https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/resources/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mariadb
Blog: https://mariadb.org/blog/
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPL-2.0)

Matrix.org

Matrix is an open protocol and network for encrypted, decentralised real-time communication. We release open source clients, SDKs, servers and bridges as well as maintain the spec!

Ideas List | Description

Category: social_communications
Techonology: golang, ios, android, python, react
Topics: real time communications, team chat, voip, instant messaging, decentralization
Tags: bridges, bots, ios, android, web, synapse server, dendrite server, specification work, voip, vr
Contact: matrix@matrix.org
Twitter: https://twitter.com/@matrixdotorg
Blog: https://matrix.org/blog
Primary Open Source License: Apache License 2.0 (Apache-2.0)

MetaBrainz Foundation Inc.

The MetaBrainz Foundation is a non-profit that believes in free, open access to data. It builds community maintained databases for the public domain or Creative Commons licenses.

Ideas List | Description

Category: data_and_databases
Techonology: python, perl, javascript, postgresql, react
Topics: music, metadata, big data, community
Tags: schema, diagram, community, bug fixes, details
Contact: support@metabrainz.org
Mailing List: https://community.metabrainz.org/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/metabrainz
Blog: https://blog.musicbrainz.org
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPL-2.0)

Metasploit

Open Source framework for exploit development and penetration testing

Ideas List | Description

Category: security
Techonology: ruby, postgresql, python, c, assembly
Topics: security, penetration testing, offensive security, exploitation
Tags: exploit, payload, database, post exploitation, metasploitable, evasion
Contact: msfdev@metasploit.com
Mailing List: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/metasploit-hackers
Twitter: https://twitter.com/metasploit
Blog: https://blog.rapid7.com/tag/metasploit/
Primary Open Source License: BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License (BSD-3-Clause)

Mixxx DJ Software

Mixxx gives you everything you need to perform live DJ mixes.

Ideas List | Description

Category: graphics
Techonology: qt, audio, music, real-time, c++
Topics: beatdetection, metadata
Tags: metadata, library, beatdetection, musicbrainz
Contact: https://mixxx.zulipchat.com
Mailing List: https://sourceforge.net/projects/mixxx/lists/mixxx-devel
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPL-2.0)

mlpack

mlpack is a C++ machine learning library with emphasis on scalability, speed, and ease-of-use.

Ideas List | Description

Category: data_and_databases
Techonology: c++
Topics: machine learning, deep learning, algorithms, data science
Tags: optimization, new algorithm, bindings
Contact: mlpack@lists.mlpack.org
Mailing List: http://www.mlpack.org/involved.html
Blog: http://www.mlpack.org/gsocblog/
Primary Open Source License: BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License (BSD-3-Clause)

Mobile Robot Programming Toolkit (MRPT)

MRPT provides portable and well-tested applications and C++ libraries covering data structures and algorithms employed in common areas of mobile robotics

Ideas List | Description

Category: science_and_medicine
Techonology: c/c++, cmake, python, webs
Topics: robot, ai, computer vision, real-time, slam
Tags: new-features, refactoring, user-interfaces, navigation, slam
Contact: https://gitter.im/MRPT/mrpt
Mailing List: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/mrpt-users
Primary Open Source License: BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License (BSD-3-Clause)

Moodle

Moodle is a learning management system used for blended learning, distance education and other e-learning projects in schools, universities, workplaces and other sectors.

Ideas List | Description

Category: social_communications
Techonology: php, javascript, ionic, sql, angular
Topics: education, web applications, e-learning, school system, learning management
Tags: moodle-core, moodle-mobile
Contact: support@moodle.org
Mailing List: https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_dev_mailing_list
Twitter: https://twitter.com/@moodle
Blog: https://moodle.com/news/
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPL-3.0)

MovingBlocks

MovingBlocks is a group of open source enthusiasts working on a voxel game engine inspired by Minecraft, Dwarf Fortress, Dungeon Keeper, and more.

Ideas List | Description

Category: end_user_applications
Techonology: java, opengl, json, blender, github
Topics: game, voxel, minecraft, sandbox, modding
Tags: rendering, networking, ui, gameplay, content, entity system, opengl, logistics, architecture, new major module
Contact: terasology@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Terasology
Blog: http://forum.terasology.org
Primary Open Source License: Apache License 2.0 (Apache-2.0)

Mozilla

Come and help us build a better Internet.

Ideas List | Description

Category: web
Techonology: javascript, c++, rust, python, css
Topics: open web, free software, web, browser
Tags: listed-proposal, original-proposal
Contact: gsoc-mentors@mozilla.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mozilla
Blog: http://blog.mozilla.org
Primary Open Source License: Mozilla Public License 2.0 (MPL-2.0)

MuseScore

Free and open-source music notation software

Ideas List | Description

Category: graphics
Techonology: qt, c++11, cpp, midi
Topics: music, music notation, user interface, end user applications, sheet music
Tags: ui/ux, better audio rendition, accessibility
Contact: info@musescore.org
Mailing List: https://dev-list.musescore.org
Twitter: https://twitter.com/musescore
Blog: https://musescore.org/en/blog
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPL-2.0)

National Resource for Network Biology (NRNB)

The National Resource for Network Biology (NRNB) organizes the development of free, open source software to enable network-based visualization, analysis, and biomedical discovery.

Ideas List | Description

Category: science_and_medicine
Techonology: java, javascript, python, html, c/c++
Topics: network analysis, biology, data visualization, data modeling, web applications
Tags: cytoscape, cytoscape.js, sbml, sbol, sbgn, wikipathways, graphspace, pathvisio, centiscape, cytoscape app
Contact: alex.pico@gladstone.ucsf.edu
Mailing List: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/cytoscape-helpdesk
Twitter: https://twitter.com/cytoscape
Blog: http://www.nrnb.org/gsoc-reports.html
Primary Open Source License: GNU Library or "Lesser" General Public License version 2.1 (LGPL-2.1)

Neovim

Neovim is a refactor of the Vim text editor engineered to encourage new features, advanced UIs, and powerful extensions.

Ideas List | Description

Category: languages
Techonology: lua, c, vim, javascript, python
Topics: text editor, vim, cross platform, tools
Tags: feature, optimization, automation, ci
Contact: https://gitter.im/neovim/neovim
Mailing List: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/neovim
Twitter: https://twitter.com/neovim
Blog: https://neovim.io/news
Primary Open Source License: Apache License 2.0 (Apache-2.0)

Netfilter project

Netfilter is the FOSS software community-driven project, launched in 1998, that provides firewalling tools for the GNU/Linux operating system.

Ideas List | Description

Category: operating_systems
Techonology: linux kernel, c
Topics: firewall, computer networking
Tags: nftables, linux kernel
Contact: coreteam@netfilter.org
Mailing List: http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#netfilter-devel
Twitter: https://twitter.com/nftables
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPL-2.0)

NumFOCUS

The mission of NumFOCUS is to promote sustainable high-level programming languages, open code development, and reproducible scientific research.

Ideas List | Description

Category: science_and_medicine
Techonology: python, julia, r, javascript, c++
Topics: statistical computing, machine learning, high performance computing, big data, data visualization
Tags: pymc3, yt, mdanalysis, conda-forge, data retriever, fenics, gensim, stan, julia, shogun
Contact: info@numfocus.org
Mailing List: https://groups.google.com/a/numfocus.org/forum/#!forum/gsoc
Twitter: https://twitter.com/numfocus
Blog: http://www.numfocus.org/blog
Primary Open Source License: MIT license (MIT)

omegaUp.com

omegaUp is a non-profit organization aimed to increase the number of talented Software Engineers in Latin America.

Ideas List | Description

Category: web
Techonology: php, mysql, python
Topics: cs education, education, web community
Tags: quality contents, contests, courses, frontend
Contact: googlesummerofcode@omegaup.com
Mailing List: https://github.com/omegaup/omegaup/wiki/Google-Summer-of-Code-2018-Ideas-List#our-mailing-list-and-slack-channel
Twitter: https://twitter.com/omegaUp
Blog: https://blog.omegaup.com/
Primary Open Source License: BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License (BSD-3-Clause)

Open Bioinformatics Foundation

Promoting practice & philosophy of OSS & Open Science in biological research.

Ideas List | Description

Category: science_and_medicine
Techonology: python, javascript, d, php, c/c++
Topics: computational biology, bioinformatics, web
Tags: cwl, openms, sambamba, genenetwork, web services, biojs, bionode, stemfromatics, antismash, cobrapy
Contact: gsoc@mailman.open-bio.org
Mailing List: http://obf.github.io/GSoC/contact/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/obf_news
Blog: http://news.open-bio.org/
Primary Open Source License: MIT license (MIT)

Open Chemistry

Open Chemistry is a collection of open source chemistry tools for the creation, exploration, analysis, and visualization of chemical data.

Ideas List | Description

Category: science_and_medicine
Techonology: python, c++, javascript, java, opengl
Topics: science, data science, visualization, chemistry
Tags: avogadro, openbabel, rdkit, cclib, msdk, mzmine, 3dmol.js, deepchem, nwchem
Contact: openchemistry-developers@public.kitware.com
Mailing List: https://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/openchemistry-developers
Twitter: https://twitter.com/OpenChem
Primary Open Source License: BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License (BSD-3-Clause)

Open Data Kit

Open Data Kit replaces paper surveys with smartphones. It has been used to collect millions of data points for social good in challenging environments around the world.

Ideas List | Description

Category: end_user_applications
Techonology: android, java
Topics: mobile, global development, global health, social good
Tags: collect, briefcase
Contact: opendatakit.org@gmail.com
Mailing List: https://forum.opendatakit.org
Twitter: https://twitter.com/opendatakit
Blog: https://opendatakit.org/blog
Primary Open Source License: Apache License 2.0 (Apache-2.0)

Open Food Facts

Help people around the globe make better food choices by letting them create an open database of all food and cosmetic products in the world, using their mobile phones.

Ideas List | Description

Category: science_and_medicine
Techonology: perl, mongodb, ios, android, machine learning
Topics: computer vision, crowdsourcing, open data, food, health
Tags: computer vision, gamification, crowdsourcing, visualization, machine learning, open data, opendata, food, android, ios
Contact: contact@openfoodfacts.org
Twitter: https://twitter.com/openfoodfacts
Blog: https://en.blog.openfoodfacts.org
Primary Open Source License: Affero GNU Public License

Open Roberta Lab

Open Roberta® Lab provides a visual programming language as well as a simulation for robotics kits. It is designed to help future generations take part in the digital revolution.

Ideas List | Description

Category: web
Techonology: java, javascript
Topics: education, programming, robotics
Tags: new-robot, new-blocks, ui, backend
Contact: roberta-zentrale@iais.fraunhofer.de
Twitter: https://twitter.com/RobertaIAIS
Primary Open Source License: Apache License 2.0 (Apache-2.0)

Open Source Robotics Foundation

Our mission is to support the development, distribution, and adoption of open source software for use in robotics research, education, and product development.

Ideas List | Description

Category: languages
Techonology: c/c++, python, javascript, ros, gazebo
Topics: robotics
Tags: ros, gazebo
Contact: gsoc@osrfoundation.org
Mailing List:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/OSRFoundation
Blog: https://www.osrfoundation.org/blog/
Primary Open Source License: Apache License 2.0 (Apache-2.0)

Open States

Open States is a collection of tools and APIs that make it possible for people to track and engage with what is happening in their state's capitol.

Ideas List | Description

Category: other
Techonology: python, django, react, graphql, postgresql
Topics: civic tech, scraping, web, government
Tags: legislative-alerts, openstates-org, crowdsourcing, text-analysis, other
Contact: contact@openstates.org
Twitter: https://twitter.com/@openstates
Blog: https://blog.openstates.org
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPL-3.0)

OpenAstronomy

OpenAstronomy is an umbrella organisation that includes open source projects used by researchers and engineers around the world to better understand the universe.

Ideas List | Description

Category: science_and_medicine
Techonology: python, julia, c++, numba
Topics: visualization, astronomy, solar physics, orbital mechanics, high-energy astrophysics
Tags: astropy, sunpy, heliopy, plasmapy, juliaastro, glue, sherpa, poliastro, timelab
Contact: openastronomy.organization@gmail.com
Mailing List: http://openastronomy.org/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Open_Astronomy
Blog: http://openastronomy.org/Universe_OA/
Primary Open Source License: BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License (BSD-3-Clause)

OpenCensus

OpenCensus is the open source version of Google’s census library, written based on years of optimization and experience.

Ideas List | Description

Category: cloud
Techonology: python, java, ruby, node, go
Topics: tracing, monitoring, c++, php
Tags: tracing, monitoring, census, opencensus, google
Contact: census-developers@googlegroups.com
Mailing List: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/census-developers
Twitter: https://twitter.com/opencensusio
Blog: https://twitter.com/opencensusio
Primary Open Source License: Apache License 2.0 (Apache-2.0)

OpenMRS

The global OpenMRS community works together to build the world's leading open source enterprise electronic medical record system platform.

Ideas List | Description

Category: science_and_medicine
Techonology: java, spring, javascript, rest, mysql
Topics: open source, medical records, developing countries
Tags: i'm most interested in this project, i'm very interested in this project, i'm interested in this project
Contact: community@openmrs.org
Mailing List: https://talk.openmrs.org
Twitter: https://twitter.com/openmrs
Blog: https://blog.openmrs.org/
Primary Open Source License: Mozilla Public License 2.0 (MPL-2.0)

OpenSIPS

An Open Source SIP proxy/server for voice, video, IM, presence and any other SIP extensions, used by carriers, telecoms or ITSPs for Class 4 & 5 SIP solutions.

Ideas List | Description

Category: social_communications
Techonology: c, python, mysql, scripting
Topics: voip, telephony, real-time-communications, sip
Tags: network protocols, python, scripting, infrastructure, voip, c language, new features
Contact: team@opensips.org
Mailing List: http://www.opensips.org/About/Contact
Twitter: https://twitter.com/opensips
Blog: https://blog.opensips.org/
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPL-2.0)

OpenStreetMap

At OpenStreetMap, volunteer surveyors gather map data of the whole world, laying the foundations for many awesome apps built on top.

Ideas List | Description

Category: data_and_databases
Techonology: postgis, java, ruby, javascript, c/c++
Topics: gis, maps, crowdsourcing, geoinformatics
Tags: api, josm, public transport, 3d/indoor, qt, nominatim, other
Contact: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/IRC
Mailing List: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Twitter: https://twitter.com/openstreetmap
Blog: https://blog.openstreetmap.org/
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPL-2.0)

openSUSE

openSUSE is a Free Software project that promotes the use of Linux everywhere. Its focus is distributing Linux operating systems and developing the tools to be able to do that.

Ideas List | Description

Category: operating_systems
Techonology: ruby on rail, perl, ruby, html/javascript, c/c++
Topics: web, qa, packaging, ui/ux
Tags: openqa, open-build-service, yast2, hackweek, trollolo
Contact: opensuse-project@opensuse.org
Mailing List: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Mailing_lists
Twitter: https://twitter.com/@opensuse
Blog: https://news.opensuse.org/
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPL-2.0)

OpenWISP

OpenWISP is an Open Source solution to build and manage wifi networks: from public wifi services to mesh networks and more.

Ideas List | Description

Category: web
Techonology: python, django, javascript, openwrt, linux
Topics: wifi, mesh-networks, wireless, networking, web development
Tags: new feature, new module, configuration, firmware, web
Contact: https://gitter.im/openwisp/general
Mailing List: https://groups.google.com/d/forum/openwisp/join
Twitter: http://twitter.com/openwisp
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPL-3.0)

OpnTec

The Open Event Project offers event managers a platform to organize all kinds of events including concerts, conferences, summits and regular meetups.

Ideas List | Description

Category: social_communications
Techonology: python, javascript, emberjs, cloud, android
Topics: open event, event solutions, web
Tags: web, android, open event, python, cloud
Contact: open-event@googlegroups.com
Mailing List: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/open-event
Twitter: https://twitter.com/eventyay
Blog: https://blog.opntec.org
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPL-3.0)

Oppia Foundation

We seek to address the problem of inequitable access to universal high-quality, affordable education, especially for struggling students who cannot attend school regularly.

Ideas List | Description

Category: web
Techonology: angularjs, python, javascript, appengine, css
Topics: education, web, interactive, tools, community
Tags: infrastructure, learner experience, creator experience
Contact: oppia-gsoc-mentors-18@googlegroups.com
Mailing List: https://github.com/oppia/oppia/wiki/Google-Summer-of-Code-2018#communication
Blog: https://medium.com/oppia-org
Primary Open Source License: Apache License 2.0 (Apache-2.0)

OSGeo

OSGeo is a non-profit organization serving as an umbrella organization for the Open Source Geospatial community.

Ideas List | Description

Category: other
Techonology: c/c++, standards, python, sql, database
Topics: mapping, gis, geospatial, citizen science, open science
Tags: new feature,optimization,web mapping,desktop,geospatial libraries,metadata catalogue,content management,incubating project,other project
Contact: gsoc-admin@osgeo.org
Mailing List: https://www.osgeo.org/community/communications/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/osgeo
Blog: http://planet.osgeo.org/
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPL-2.0)

OW2

OW2 is an independent community dedicated to developing open source code infrastructure (middleware, tools and generic applications). OW2 hosts dozens of open source projects.

Ideas List | Description

Category: other
Techonology: java, perl, middleware, bpm, wiki
Topics: enterprise information systems, cloud, security, middleware
Tags: abac, xacml, gui, iot, pdp, pep
Contact: management-office@ow2.org
Mailing List: https://mail.ow2.org/wws/info/authzforce-team
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ow2
Primary Open Source License: GNU Library or "Lesser" General Public License version 2.1 (LGPL-2.1)

OWASP Foundation

OWASP is the Open Web Application Security Project. Our goal is to be the global community that drives visibility and evolution in the safety and security of the world’s software

Ideas List | Description

Category: security
Techonology: python, php, javascript, java, html
Topics: security, application security, secure development, web applications, appsec
Tags: security, python, developer, appsec
Contact: owasp-gsoc@googlegroups.com
Mailing List: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/GSoC#Getting_in_touch
Twitter: https://twitter.com/OWASP
Blog: http://owasp.blogspot.com/
Primary Open Source License: Apache License 2.0 (Apache-2.0)

P2PSP.org

P2PSP.org is a nonprofit organization that develops the P2PSP protocol: an application layer protocol designed for the real-time streaming of multimedia content over the Internet.

Ideas List | Description

Category: graphics
Techonology: python, javascript, webrtc, sockets, c/c++
Topics: live streaming, real time, distributed networks, p2p, video
Tags: core, new feature, other, testing, security
Contact: info@p2psp.org
Blog: http://www.p2psp.org
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPL-3.0)

PEcAn Project

PEcAn is an integrated ecoinformatics toolbox that consists of a set of scientific workflows that wrap around ecosystem models and manage flow of information in and out of models.

Ideas List | Description

Category: science_and_medicine
Techonology: javascript, postgresql, php, c, r
Topics: scientific visualization, data science, climate science, ecosystem models, ecological forecasting
Tags: high performance computing, database optimization, scientific visualization, database porting, remote execution, distributed computing, linking databases and data types
Contact: pecanproj@gmail.com
Mailing List: http://pecanproject.github.io/contact.html
Twitter: https://twitter.com/PEcAnProject
Primary Open Source License: University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License (NCSA)

Performance Co-Pilot

The Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) is a toolkit designed for monitoring and managing system-level performance.

Ideas List | Description

Category: operating_systems
Techonology: python, redis, c, linux, javascript
Topics: high performance computing, visualization, web development, kernel, performance
Tags: monitoring, linux, performance co-pilot, redis, python, c, javascript
Contact: pcp-mentors@groups.io
Mailing List: http://pcp.io/community.html
Twitter: https://twitter.com/performancepcp
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPL-2.0)

phpBB Forum Software

phpBB is the most widely used free and open-source forum solution.

Ideas List | Description

Category: social_communications
Techonology: mysql, javascript, html5/css3, php, symfony
Topics: social, communication, collaboration, forum, community
Tags: new feature, improvement, social, extension
Contact: operations@phpbb.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/phpbb
Blog: https://blog.phpbb.com
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPL-2.0)

phpMyAdmin

We're developing phpMyAdmin, a MySQL web interface. It supports most MySQL features, is widely used by database administrators, and is well supported by hosting providers.

Ideas List | Description

Category: data_and_databases
Techonology: php, mysql, cakephp, jquery, javascript
Topics: mysql, developer, administrator, web applications, database
Tags: error reporting server, theme generator, refactoring twig templates, interface improvements, other
Contact: developers@phpmyadmin.net
Mailing List: https://lists.phpmyadmin.net/mailman/listinfo/developers
Twitter: https://twitter.com/phpmya
Blog: https://planet.phpmyadmin.net/
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPL-2.0)

Plone

Plone is a Python-based CMS built with workflow and security at the forefront. It is developed by a world-wide community and uses modern technologies and techniques.

Ideas List | Description

Category: web
Techonology: python, javascript, html, css, reactjs
Topics: communications, collaboration, content management, web
Tags: front-end, back-end, add-on, core
Contact: gsoc@plone.org
Mailing List: https://community.plone.org
Twitter: https://twitter.com/plone
Blog: https://planet.plone.org/
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPL-2.0)

PMD

PMD keeps an eye on code quality in your project. It understands multiple languages and can be customized to your specific needs.

Ideas List | Description

Category: languages
Techonology: java, xml, javacc, antlr, xpath
Topics: code analysis, code quality, source code analyzer, linter
Tags: new feature, new language, gui, ide, new rule, performance
Contact: pmd-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Mailing List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pmd-devel
Twitter: https://twitter.com/pmd_analyzer
Primary Open Source License: BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" or "FreeBSD" License (BSD-2-Clause)

Pocket Science Lab

The goal of PSLab is to create an Open Source lab using free software and hardware that can be used for experiments by teachers, students and citizen scientists.

Ideas List | Description

Category: science_and_medicine
Techonology: android, java, firmware, c, cad
Topics: science, education, firmware, school apps
Tags: pocket science, education, firmware, web apps, android
Contact: pslab-fossasia@googlegroups.com
Mailing List: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/pslab-fossasia
Twitter: https://twitter.com/pslabapp
Blog: http://blog.fossasia.org/tag/pslab/
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPL-3.0)

Polly Labs

Polly Labs supports the development of tools based on the polyhedral models such as LLVM/Polly.

Ideas List | Description

Category: languages
Techonology: c/c++, llvm, polly, isl, ppcg
Topics: compilers, polyhedral model
Tags: isl, polly, ppcg, pet, pencil, polly-acc, prl
Contact: polly-dev@googlegroups.com
Mailing List: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/polly-dev
Primary Open Source License: MIT license (MIT)

PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system with more than 20 years of active development and a proven architecture.

Ideas List | Description

Category: data_and_databases
Techonology: postgresql, sql, rdbms, ordbms, c
Topics: sql, database, big data
Tags: monitoring, control, performance, procedural languages, refactoring, replication, recovery, security, feature, sql commands
Contact: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Mailing List: https://lists.postgresql.org/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/postgresql
Blog: https://planet.postgresql.org
Primary Open Source License: The PostgreSQL License (PostgreSQL)

Probot

Probot is a framework for GitHub Apps to automate and improve project workflows. Use pre-built apps to extend GitHub, and easily build and share your own.

Ideas List | Description

Category: languages
Techonology: javascript, node, github
Topics: bot, automation, development tools
Tags: github app
Contact: opensource+probot@github.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/probottherobot
Primary Open Source License: ISC License (ISC)

Public Lab

Open hardware and software to help communities measure and analyze pollution

Ideas List | Description

Category: science_and_medicine
Techonology: ruby on rails, javascript, node.js
Topics: science, environment, collaboration, community, hardware
Tags: back-end, user-interface, integration
Contact: web@publiclab.org
Mailing List: http://publiclab.org/developers
Twitter: https://twitter.com/publiclab
Blog: http://publiclab.org/blog
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPL-3.0)

Purr Data

Purr Data is a visual programming language aimed at low-latency real-time DSP applications. The diagrams double as user interfaces, making Purr Data ideal for prototyping DSP apps.

Ideas List | Description

Category: languages
Techonology: javascript, html5/css3, node.js, c/c++
Topics: real-time, audio, dsp, video, data vizualisation
Tags: new feature, documentation, optimization, usability enhancement, i18n, accessibility, language enhancement, development tool, realtime safety enhancement
Contact: http://disis.music.vt.edu/listinfo/l2ork-dev
Mailing List: http://disis.music.vt.edu/listinfo/l2ork-dev
Primary Open Source License: MIT license (MIT)

Python HYDRA

Python toolkit for Semantically linked Web APIs based on HYDRA

Ideas List | Description

Category: web
Techonology: python, rdf, flask, hydra, json/json-ld
Topics: apis, database, functional-programming, semantic web, knowledge graph
Tags: hydrus, django-http-hydra, falcon-http-hydra, spacecraft-demo, openapi-hydra-parser
Contact: https://gitter.im/HTTP-APIs/Lobby
Mailing List: https://www.w3.org/community/hydra/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/HydraCG
Blog: http://www.hydra-cg.com/
Primary Open Source License: MIT license (MIT)

Python Software Foundation

Python is a popular high-level programming language used by scientists, developers, and many others who want to work more quickly and integrate systems more effectively.

Ideas List | Description

Category: science_and_medicine
Techonology: python
Topics: programming languages, science
Tags: dipy, mne-python, mercurial, pysal, scipy, scrapinghub, securedrop, statsmodels
Contact: gsoc-general@python.org
Mailing List: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/gsoc-general
Twitter: https://twitter.com/thepsf
Blog: https://pyfound.blogspot.com/
Primary Open Source License: Python License (Python-2.0) (overall Python license)

QEMU

QEMU is an emulator and virtualizer that is used for cloud hosting, datacenter virtualization, CPU emulation, hardware prototyping, and low-level software instrumentation.

Ideas List | Description

Category: cloud
Techonology: c, kvm
Topics: emulation, hypervisor, kernel, lowlevel, cloud
Tags: qemu, kvm, jailhouse
Contact: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Mailing List: https://wiki.qemu.org/MailingLists
Blog: https://www.qemu.org/blog/
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPL-2.0)

Quill.org

Quill.org is an education technology nonprofit that helps learners around the world improve their writing and critical thinking skills through innovative technological approaches.

Ideas List | Description

Category: web
Techonology: ruby, rails, react, javascript, postgresql
Topics: education, edtech, machine learning, nlp, web
Tags: accessibility, security, open source workflow, custom idea
Contact: gsoc@quill.org
Twitter: https://twitter.com/quill_org
Blog: https://medium.com/writing-with-quill
Primary Open Source License: GNU Affero General Public License v3 (AGPL-3.0)

R project for statistical computing

R provides a wide variety of statistical and graphical techniques, and is highly extensible. R is often the tool of choice for research in statistical methodology.

Ideas List | Description

Category: languages
Techonology: r-project, c, c++, javascript, fortran
Topics: data science, visualization, statistics, graphics, machine learning
Tags: new package, existing package, visualization, machine learning, data cleaning, statistics, finance, optimization, reproducible research, bioinformatics
Contact: gsoc-r@googlegroups.com
Mailing List: https://github.com/rstats-gsoc/gsoc2018/wiki
Blog: http://www.r-bloggers.com/
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPL-2.0)

radare

Radare2 - portable reverse engineering framework and toolset supporting various platforms, architectures and file formats.

Ideas List | Description

Category: security
Techonology: c, cpp, rust, qt
Topics: reverse engineering
Tags: windows, new feature, refactoring, analysis, rop, debug, decompiler, gui
Contact: gsoc@radare.org
Twitter: https://twitter.com/radareorg
Blog: http://radare.today
Primary Open Source License: GNU Library or "Lesser" General Public License version 3.0 (LGPL-3.0)

ReactOS

ReactOS is a free, open source, Windows compatible operating system.

Ideas List | Description

Category: operating_systems
Techonology: c, c++
Topics: operating systems, drivers, desktop, kernel, windows
Tags: drivers, networking, durability, system enhancements, win32 subsystem
Contact: ros-dev@reactos.org
Mailing List: https://reactos.org/community/mailing-lists
Twitter: https://twitter.com/reactos
Blog: https://reactos.org/news
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPL-2.0)

Read the Docs

Read the Docs hosts documentation for the open source community. We build and host docs for tens of thousands of open source projects.

Ideas List | Description

Category: languages
Techonology: python, sphinx, django, javascript, elasticsearch
Topics: docs, web, communications
Tags: docs, python, sphinx, django, api
Contact: support@readthedocs.org
Twitter: https://twitter.com/readthedocs
Blog: https://blog.readthedocs.com/
Primary Open Source License: MIT license (MIT)

Red Hen Lab

Red Hen Lab is a distributed consortium of researchers in multimodal communication, with participants all over the world.

Ideas List | Description

Category: science_and_medicine
Techonology: python, scikit-learn, tensorflow, singularity, syntaxnet
Topics: multimedia, audio processing, video processing, artificial intelligence, machine learning
Tags: speech, non-speech audio, gesture, emotion, face processing, visualization., cognitive theory, measurement, high performance computing, other
Contact: redhenlab@gmail.com
Mailing List: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1V9jzUi9OvLU357HAcN1Ewp7vFEIWVcrYtwBeifWlO58/edit
Twitter: https://twitter.com/redhenlab
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPL-2.0)

RoboComp

RoboComp is an open-source Robotics framework providing the tools to create and modify software components that communicate through public interfaces.

Ideas List | Description

Category: other
Techonology: c/c++, python, cmake, openscenegraph, ice - zeroc
Topics: robotics, computer vision, simulation
Tags: rcis, rcmanager, computer vision
Contact: https://gitter.im/robocomp/home
Mailing List: https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=es#!forum/robocomp-dev
Blog: https://robocomp.github.io/web/blog/index
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPL-3.0)

Rocket.Chat

Rocket.Chat is an open source group communications platform; supporting text msgs, video, audio, and file/media sharing between individuals and groups- cross mobile, web, desktop.

Ideas List | Description

Category: social_communications
Techonology: javascript, ios, android, node, meteor.js
Topics: chat, collaboration, machine learning, chatops, bot
Tags: new feature, mobile, iot, home automation, analytics, integration, bot, search, ldap, react
Contact: gsoc+2018@rocket.chat
Mailing List:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/rocketchat
Blog: https://rocket.chat/blog/
Primary Open Source License: MIT license (MIT)

Rspamd

Rspamd is an advanced spam filtering system oriented on high performance and spam detection quality.

Ideas List | Description

Category: security
Techonology: c, machine learning, javascript, lua
Topics: email, spam filtering, high performance computing
Tags: xmpp, https, tarantool, gpg, neural nets, bayes
Contact: vsevolod@rspamd.com
Mailing List: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/rspamd
Primary Open Source License: Apache License 2.0 (Apache-2.0)

RTEMS Project

RTEMS is an operating system used in satellites, particle accelerators, robots, racing motorcycles, building controls, medical devices, and more.

Ideas List | Description

Category: operating_systems
Techonology: c, python, posix, bsd unix
Topics: kernel, embedded systems, multicore, iot, real time
Tags: testing, development ecosystem, kernel, runtime statistics, board support package, api layers, rtems-libbsd, languages, libraries and applications, other
Contact: gsoc@rtems.org
Mailing List: https://devel.rtems.org/wiki/RTEMSMailingLists
Primary Open Source License: BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" or "FreeBSD" License (BSD-2-Clause)

Ruby

The Ruby programming language, libraries, and tools

Ideas List | Description

Category: languages
Techonology: ruby
Topics: programming languages
Tags: mri, bundler, rubygems, library
Contact: hello@rubytogether.org
Mailing List: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/rubygsoc
Blog: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/
Primary Open Source License: BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" or "FreeBSD" License (BSD-2-Clause)

Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails make web application development easy and fun.

Ideas List | Description

Category: web
Techonology: ruby, ruby on rails, html
Topics: web, web development, web applications
Tags: rails, ruby-bench
Contact: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/rubyonrails-gsoc
Mailing List: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/rubyonrails-gsoc
Twitter: https://twitter.com/rails
Blog: http://weblog.rubyonrails.org
Primary Open Source License: MIT license (MIT)

Ruby Science Foundation

SciRuby's purpose is providing science, numerical, and visualization infrastructure for the Ruby Programming Language. We develop and maintain several libraries for this purpose.

Ideas List | Description

Category: science_and_medicine
Techonology: ruby, c, c++, cuda
Topics: visualization, compilers, parallel algorithms, data science, artificial intelligence
Tags: rubex, gpu, data science, aritifical intelligence, nmatrix
Contact: sciruby-dev@googlegroups.com
Mailing List: http://sciruby.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/sciruby
Blog: http://sciruby.com/blog/
Primary Open Source License: BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License (BSD-3-Clause)

Sage Mathematical Software System

SageMath is a free open-source mathematics software system licensed under the GPL.

Ideas List | Description

Category: science_and_medicine
Techonology: python 3, python, cython, c/c++
Topics: mathematics, toolbox
Tags: algebra, numbertheory, algebraicgeometry, matroid, graphtheory, combinatorics, representationtheory, other
Contact: harald.schilly+gsoc@gmail.com
Mailing List: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/sage-gsoc
Twitter: https://twitter.com/sagemath
Blog: https://planet.sagemath.org/
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPL-2.0)

Scala

Scala is a hybrid object-oriented and functional programming language that runs on the JVM, JavaScript and compiles to native code via LLVM.

Ideas List | Description

Category: languages
Techonology: scala, jvm, llvm
Topics: compilers, programming-tools, functional-programming, programming-language
Tags: functional-programming, compilers
Contact: guillaume.masse@epfl.ch
Mailing List: https://users.scala-lang.org/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/scala_lang
Blog: http://www.scala-lang.org/blog/
Primary Open Source License: BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License (BSD-3-Clause)

Scilab

Scilab is a high-level, numerically oriented programming language. The language provides an interpreted programming environment, with matrices as the main data type.

Ideas List | Description

Category: end_user_applications
Techonology: c, c++, java, scilab
Topics: science, mathematics, numerical computation, graphics
Tags: xcos, java, scilab language, toolbox, c++, features, improvements
Contact: gsoc@lists.scilab.org
Mailing List: http://www.scilab.org/en/development/ml
Primary Open Source License: CeCILL License 2.1 (CECILL-2.1)

ScummVM

ScummVM is a GSoC umbrella for game preservation projects focused on reliving games by providing a replacement for their executables on modern platforms.

Ideas List | Description

Category: end_user_applications
Techonology: c++, opengl, sdl, assembly
Topics: games, game engines, software preservation
Tags: new game engine, scummvm, residualvm, roguevm, refactoring
Contact: admin@scummvm.org
Mailing List: http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Summer_of_Code/GSoC_Contact
Twitter: https://twitter.com/scummvm
Blog: http://planet.scummvm.org/
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPL-2.0)

Seastar

Advanced C++ framework for asynchronous high-performance server applications on modern hardware.

Ideas List | Description

Category: languages
Techonology: cpp, framework, dpdk, tcp, linux
Topics: high performance, tcp, app development, network, framework
Tags: performance, feature, optimization, spdk, mechanisms, tcp ip
Contact: info@scylladb.com
Mailing List: http://seastar-dev@googlegroups.com
Primary Open Source License: Apache License 2.0 (Apache-2.0)

Software and Computational Systems Lab at LMU Munich

Our project involve several aspects of software development, from plain theoretical parts like SMT solving to application-related pieces like benchmarking.

Ideas List | Description

Category: languages
Techonology: java, python, javascript
Topics: software analysis, software verification, benchmarking, smt solver
Tags: cpachecker, javasmt, benchexec
Contact: info@sosy-lab.org
Mailing List:
Primary Open Source License: Apache License 2.0 (Apache-2.0)

Space @ Virginia Tech

Our mission is to provide forefront research, instruction, and educational outreach in the fields of space science and engineering.

Ideas List | Description

Category: science_and_medicine
Techonology: python, javascript, d3, mysql, mongodb
Topics: real time, web, data visualization, data analytics
Tags: space science, visualization tools, parallelize, real time, superdarn, msis, conjunction tool, machine learning, big data
Contact: space.vt.gsoc@gmail.com
Mailing List: http://space.vt.edu/space_gsoc_2018.html
Primary Open Source License: GNU Library or "Lesser" General Public License version 3.0 (LGPL-3.0)

SPDX

The Software Package Data ExchangeR (SPDXR) specification is a standard format for communicating the components, licenses and copyrights associated with a software package.

Ideas List | Description

Category: languages
Techonology: rdf, python, java, json
Topics: compliance, open source, licensing
Tags: workgroup tools, specification projects
Contact: https://lists.spdx.org/mailman/listinfo/spdx-tech
Mailing List: https://lists.spdx.org/mailman/listinfo/spdx-tech
Primary Open Source License: Apache License 2.0 (Apache-2.0)

Stemformatics

It is difficult for a stem cell scientist to be able to visualise an explore their datasets. Stemformatics makes it quick and easy for scientists to explore their data.

Ideas List | Description

Category: science_and_medicine
Techonology: python, javascript, postgresql
Topics: web applications, cloud, bioinformatics
Tags: bioinformatics, data visualization, software engineer, d3js, python
Contact: info@stemformatics.org
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Stemformatics/
Primary Open Source License: Apache License 2.0 (Apache-2.0)

STE||AR Group

HPX: The C++ Standards Library for Concurrency and Parallelism

Ideas List | Description

Category: languages
Techonology: c++, cuda, opencv, python, boost
Topics: hpc, parallel algorithms, runtime systems, distributed datastructures, asynchronous many task systems
Tags: new idea, medium, hard, beginner, libray
Contact: hpx-users@stellar.cct.lsu.edu
Mailing List: https://mail.cct.lsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hpx-users
Blog: https://stellar-group.org/blog/
Primary Open Source License: Boost Software License (BSL-1.0)

Stony Brook University Biomedical Informatics

The mission of the Department of Biomedical Informatics of Stony Brook University is to advance biomedical knowledge through innovative data science education and research.

Ideas List | Description

Category: science_and_medicine
Techonology: python, matlab, c++, javascript
Topics: biomedical data science, cancer informatics, deep learning, medical imaging
Tags: data science, medical imaging, cancer informatics, deep learning
Contact: stonybrookbmigsoc@gmail.com
Mailing List: https://groups.google.com/d/forum/stonybrookbmigsoc
Primary Open Source License: Apache License 2.0 (Apache-2.0)

strace

strace is a diagnostic, debugging and instructional userspace utility for Linux. It is used to monitor and tamper with interactions between processes and the Linux kernel.

Ideas List | Description

Category: operating_systems
Techonology: linux, c, git, shell script, make
Topics: diagnostic, debugging, tracing
Tags: new feature, test suite
Contact: strace-devel@lists.strace.io
Mailing List: https://lists.strace.io/mailman/listinfo/strace-devel
Primary Open Source License: BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License (BSD-3-Clause)

Streetmix

Streetmix is a fun and friendly civic engagement platform that encourages people to redesign streets in their own communities, and collaborate with urban planners and others.

Ideas List | Description

Category: end_user_applications
Techonology: javascript, react, redux, postgresql, mongodb
Topics: smart cities, web, civic tech
Tags: user interface, city planning, urban design, collaboration, javascript, single page app, performance optimization
Contact: hello@streetmix.net
Twitter: https://twitter.com/streetmix/
Primary Open Source License: BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License (BSD-3-Clause)

Submitty

Submitty is an open source programming assignment submission system with secure and automated testing, automated grading, and efficient manual TA/instructor grading & management.

Ideas List | Description

Category: other
Techonology: python, c++, databases, web/html/css, php/javascript/ajax
Topics: education, privacy/security, data visualization, web
Tags: plagiarism detection, peer grading, ui/ux/website design/usability, continuous integration/testing, static program analysis/advanced automated grading, security/privacy/website penetration testing, performance/parallel computing/distributed computing, other
Contact: submitty-admin@googlegroups.com
Mailing List: http://submitty.org
Primary Open Source License: BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License (BSD-3-Clause)

Sugar Labs

We make tools that learners use to explore, discover, create, and reflect. We encourage our users to appropriate them, taking ownership and responsibility for their learning.

Ideas List | Description

Category: other
Techonology: python, javascript, gtk+
Topics: education, games, user interface, media, stem
Tags: sugar, python, javascript, sugarizer, musicblocks, learning, constructionism, gtk+
Contact: walter@sugarlabs.org
Mailing List: http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPL-3.0)

Sustainable Computing Research Group (SCoRe)

SCoRe is a research group that seeks sustainable solutions for various problems in developing countries such as Sri Lanka.

Ideas List | Description

Category: web
Techonology: android, java, go, node, pyth
Topics: iot, web, mobile, machine learning, security
Tags: project name, issue id, contributions
Contact: info@scorelab.org
Mailing List: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/score-community
Twitter: https://twitter.com/scoreucsc
Blog: http://www.scorelab.org/blog/index.html
Primary Open Source License: Apache License 2.0 (Apache-2.0)

Swift

Swift is a high-performance system programming language. It has modern syntax, offers seamless access to existing C and Objective-C code, and is memory safe by default.

Ideas List | Description

Category: languages
Techonology: c++, llvm, cmake, swift
Topics: compilers, programming languages
Tags: compiler, standard library, package manager, corelibs xctest, corelibs dispatch, corelibs foundation, sourcekit, infrastructure, fuzzing, refactoring
Contact: core-team@swift.org
Mailing List: https://swift.org/community/
Blog: https://swift.org/blog/
Primary Open Source License: Apache License 2.0 (Apache-2.0)

SymPy

SymPy is a Python library for symbolic mathematics.

Ideas List | Description

Category: science_and_medicine
Techonology: python
Topics: mathematics, computer algebra
Tags: sympy, symengine
Contact: https://gitter.im/sympy/sympy
Mailing List: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/sympy
Twitter: https://twitter.com/sympy
Primary Open Source License: BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License (BSD-3-Clause)

Systers Community

Helping women find their potential in code.

Ideas List | Description

Category: other
Techonology: ios, android, python, django
Topics: mobile applications, web apps, community
Tags: new feature, refactor, games
Contact: systers.keeper@gmail.com
Mailing List: http://www.systers.org/mailman/listinfo/systers-opensource
Twitter: https://twitter.com/systers_org
Blog: http://systers-opensource.blogspot.com/
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPL-2.0)

TEAMMATES @ National University of Singapore

TEAMMATES is an award winning online feedback management system for education, used by over 200k users. It is a free Java EE SaaS application that runs on the Google App Engine.

Ideas List | Description

Category: web
Techonology: java, appengine, javascript
Topics: education, teaching, cloud, web applications
Tags: given-idea, self-proposed
Contact: teammates@comp.nus.edu.sg
Mailing List: https://github.com/TEAMMATES/teammates#contacting-us
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPL-2.0)

The Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling

NetLogo: A language and IDE for programming and scientific simulations

Ideas List | Description

Category: languages
Techonology: javascript, scala, html5/css3
Topics: simulation, education, programming language, science, academic research
Tags: netlogo, netlogo web, compiler, optimization
Contact: https://gitter.im/NetLogo/GSoC
Twitter: https://twitter.com/netlogo
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPL-2.0)

The Eclipse Foundation

The Eclipse Foundation is host to more that three hundred open source projects that cover a diverse set of technologies and interests.

Ideas List | Description

Category: other
Techonology: php, java, xtext, javascript, c/c++
Topics: research, industry, internet of things, runtime systems
Tags: internet of things, programming languages and ides, runtimes, science
Contact: emo@eclipse.org
Mailing List: https://accounts.eclipse.org/mailing-list/soc-dev
Twitter: https://twitter.com/@EclipseFdn
Blog: http://planet.eclipse.org/planet/
Primary Open Source License: Eclipse Public License 1.0 (EPL-1.0)

The Honeynet Project

The Honeynet Project is a non-profit research organization dedicated to improving the security of the Internet at no cost to the public. Focus is on honeypots and threat analysis.

Ideas List | Description

Category: security
Techonology: python 3, python, golang, c/c++, machine learning
Topics: honeypots, malware, sandbox, deception, networking
Tags: mitmproxy, honeytrap, drakvuf, holmes-processing, conpot, cuckoo-sandbox, thug, snare/tanner, libvmi, other
Contact: project@honeynet.org
Mailing List:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ProjectHoneynet
Blog: https://honeynet.org/blog
Primary Open Source License: MIT license (MIT)

The Java Pathfinder Team

JPF is a highly extensible Java virtual machine which is written in Java, and is used to create a variety of verification tools ranging from model checkers to test case generators.

Ideas List | Description

Category: languages
Techonology: java, jvm, android, distributed systems
Topics: program analysis, model checking, symbolic execution, test input generation, formal methods
Tags: beginner topics, jpf infrastructure, jpf application domains, symbolic execution, concolic execution, program repair, program synthesis, test input generation, formal verification
Contact: jpf.gsoc@gmail.com
Mailing List: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/java-pathfinder
Primary Open Source License: Apache License 2.0 (Apache-2.0)

The Libreswan Project

Encrypting the internet using IKE and IPsec

Ideas List | Description

Category: security
Techonology: c, python, shell script, qemu
Topics: ipsec vpn
Tags: networkmanager, webapp, testing, tls support, eap, opportunistic ipsec, ecc/eddsa, other rfcs
Contact: gsoc@libreswan.org
Mailing List: https://lists.libreswan.org/mailman/listinfo
Twitter: https://twitter.com/libreswan
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPL-2.0)

The Linux Foundation

The Linux Foundation is a non-profit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux. Hosting the Linux Kernel. OpenPrinting, Linux Standards Base, SPDX, ...

Ideas List | Description

Category: operating_systems
Techonology: c, c++, cups, ipp
Topics: kernel, printing, wireless, lsb, spdx
Tags: printing, kernel, lsb, spdx, llvmlinux, driver backports, wireless, others
Contact: till@linux.com
Mailing List: https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/gsoc/google-summer-code-2018#if-you-have-questions
Primary Open Source License: MIT license (MIT)

The MacPorts Project

MacPorts is an open-source package management system that simplifies the installation of other open-source softwares on the macOS operating systems.

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Category: end_user_applications
Techonology: make, git, tcl, c
Topics: package manager, mac os x, macos, command line
Tags: optimization, new feature
Contact: https://www.macports.org/contact.php#IRC
Mailing List: https://www.macports.org/contact.php#Lists
Twitter: https://twitter.com/macports
Blog: https://www.macports.org/news/
Primary Open Source License: BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License (BSD-3-Clause)

The Mifos Initiative

FinTech non-profit leveraging the cloud, mobile, and open source community to deliver digital financial services to the world’s 2 billion poor and unbanked.

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Category: end_user_applications
Techonology: java, android, spring, angularjs, mysql
Topics: fintech, financial inclusion, mobile banking, digital financial services, microfinance
Tags: mobile, web, platform, framework, module, mifos, fineract, fineract-cn
Contact: info@mifos.org
Mailing List: http://mifos.org/resources/community/communications/#mailing-lists
Twitter: http://twitter.com/mifos
Blog: http://mifos.org/blog/
Primary Open Source License: Mozilla Public License 2.0 (MPL-2.0)

The NetBSD Foundation

A free portable operating system

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Category: operating_systems
Techonology: c, bsd make
Topics: kernel, userland, unix, packaging, bsd
Tags: kernel, userland, pkgsrc
Contact: gsoc-admin@NetBSD.org
Mailing List: https://www.netbsd.org/mailinglists/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/netbsd
Blog: https://blog.NetBSD.org/
Primary Open Source License: BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" or "FreeBSD" License (BSD-2-Clause)

The ns-3 Network Simulator Project

ns-3 is a simulation tool for performance evaluation of computer networks and protocols. ns-3 users build models and scenarios of networks to conduct simulation experiments.

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Category: other
Techonology: c/c++, python
Topics: networking, research and development, network simulation
Tags: new feature, usability, testing, visualization, data analysis, integration
Contact: consortium@nsnam.org
Mailing List: https://www.nsnam.org/developers/tools/mailing-lists/
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPL-2.0)

The Processing Foundation

The Processing Foundation’s mission is to promote software literacy and visual literacy — and to make these fields accessible to diverse communities.

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Category: languages
Techonology: java, javascript, python, android, opengl
Topics: creative coding, graphics, design, education, web
Tags: processing, p5.js, processing.py, android, webgl, p3d, library, mode, processing ide, p5.js web editor
Contact: foundation@processing.org
Twitter: https://twitter.com/processingorg
Blog: https://medium.com/@processingorg
Primary Open Source License: GNU Library or "Lesser" General Public License version 2.1 (LGPL-2.1)

The Qt Project

The Qt Project is a project to co-ordinate the development of the Qt software framework.

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Category: languages
Techonology: c++11, cpp, qt, qml, opengl
Topics: graphics, gis, maps, declarative language
Tags: new feature, optimization, qtlocation
Contact: https://wiki.qt.io/IRC
Mailing List: http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
Twitter: https://twitter.com/qtproject
Blog: http://blog.qt.io/
Primary Open Source License: GNU Library or "Lesser" General Public License version 3.0 (LGPL-3.0)

The syslog-ng project.

With syslog-ng, you can collect logs from any source, process them in near real-time and deliver them to a wide variety of destinations.

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Category: security
Techonology: java, c/c++, big data, elasticsearch, rest
Topics: logging, log management, message queue, python
Tags: new feature, simplify configuration, improve stability, improve performance
Contact: syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu
Mailing List: https://lists.balabit.hu/mailman/listinfo/syslog-ng
Twitter: https://twitter.com/sngose
Blog: https://syslog-ng.org/blogs/
Primary Open Source License: GNU Library or "Lesser" General Public License version 2.1 (LGPL-2.1)

The Vega Visualization Tools by the UW Interactive Data Lab

An ecosystem of languages and graphical user interfaces for authoring, saving, and sharing interactive visualizations, created by the research lab that created D3.js.

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Category: data_and_databases
Techonology: javascript, typescript, react, d3.js
Topics: data visualization, visualization grammar, data science, declarative language, plotting tools
Tags: new feature, ecosystem, bugfixes, documentations, examples
Contact: https://communityinviter.com/apps/vega-js/join
Mailing List: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!forum/vega-js
Twitter: https://twitter.com/vega_vis
Blog: http://medium.com/@uwdata
Primary Open Source License: BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License (BSD-3-Clause)

The Wine Project

Wine runs Windows applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris, macOS and Android

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Category: other
Techonology: directx, x11, win32, opengl, c
Topics: compatibility, desktop integration, 3d, directx, opengl
Tags: c, linux, windows, gaming, directx, opengl, x11, xml, php
Contact: https://www.winehq.org/irc
Mailing List: https://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-devel
Blog: https://www.winehq.org/wwn/
Primary Open Source License: GNU Library or "Lesser" General Public License version 2.1 (LGPL-2.1)

TimVideos.us

Projects for recording and streaming of conferences & user groups. From web front ends, high speed video code, low level embedded software & FPGA based firmware+hardware!

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Category: graphics
Techonology: fpga, verilog, python, c
Topics: hardware
Tags: hdmi2usb, fpga, gstreamer, video, software
Contact: contact@timvideos.us
Mailing List: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/timvideos
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TimVideosUs
Blog: https://hdmi2usb.tv/news/
Primary Open Source License: Apache License 2.0 (Apache-2.0)

TLA+

TLA+ is a formal specification language developed to design, model, document, and verify concurrent systems.

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Category: languages
Techonology: java, tla+, eclipse, ocaml, smt
Topics: formal methods, algorithms
Tags: tla+, formal methods, java, scalability, math, ocaml
Contact: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/tlaplus
Mailing List: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/tlaplus
Twitter: https://twitter.com/tlaplus
Primary Open Source License: MIT license (MIT)

UCSC Xena

We create innovative ways to enable biologists to explore genome-wide data generated from human tumors, helping them to gain insights into the disease of cancer.

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Category: science_and_medicine
Techonology: javascript, python, clojure, react, jvm
Topics: bioinformatics, data visualization, web applications, cancer, genomics
Tags: new functionality, improvement, exploratory, optimization
Contact: genome-cancer@soe.ucsc.edu
Mailing List: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/xena-google-summer-of-code
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ucscxena
Primary Open Source License: Apache License 2.0 (Apache-2.0)

VideoLAN

Open source multimedia, for everyone, everywhere.

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Category: graphics
Techonology: c, c++, go, vue.js
Topics: multimedia, audio, video, 3d, vr
Tags: server, client, ui, web, new feature, original idea
Contact: videolan@videolan.org
Mailing List: https://mailman.videolan.org/listinfo/vlc-devel
Twitter: https://twitter.com/videolan
Blog: http://planet.videolan.org
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPL-2.0)

ViSP

ViSP library includes state of the art computer vision, visual tracking and visual servoing algorithms that could be used in robotics or augmented reality applications.

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Category: graphics
Techonology: c/c++
Topics: robotics, computer vision
Tags: augmented reality, unity, android
Contact: visp-gsoc-2018@inria.fr
Mailing List: https://github.com/lagadic/visp/wiki/GSoC_2018#for-students-interested-in-applying
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPL-2.0)

vitrivr

vitrivr enables you to use novel methods to search in images, music, video and 3d collections.

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Category: data_and_databases
Techonology: java, angularjs, spark, grpc
Topics: retrieval, multimedia, video, audio, 3d
Tags: vitrivr-ng, cineast, adampro, cthulhu, mobile, cloud, art, new features
Contact: gsoc@vitrivr.org
Mailing List: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/vitrivr
Twitter: https://twitter.com/vitrivr_org
Primary Open Source License: MIT license (MIT)

webpack

webpack is THE build solution for modern web and NodeJS applications

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Category: languages
Techonology: javascript, web development, html5/css3, node.js, webassembly
Topics: tooling, toolchains, compilers, parser, web performance
Tags: new feature, optimization, rearchitecture, bugfix/major change, webpack, webpack-contrib
Contact: webpack@opencollective.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/webpackcontrib
Blog: http://medium.com/webpack
Primary Open Source License: MIT license (MIT)

Wikimedia Foundation

Global movement whose mission is to bring free educational content to the world.

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Category: web
Techonology: php, javascript, ruby on rails, android, reactjs
Topics: wikipedia, wikimedia, mediawiki, web, education
Tags: google-summer-of-code (2018)
Contact: https://wikimedia.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/gsoc18-outreachy16
Mailing List: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Wikimedia
Blog: https://blog.wikimedia.org/
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPL-2.0)

WorldBrain.io - Verifying the Internet

WorldBrain Memex - a bookmarking extension that works like your brain. Search for every word you remember about website you visited, filter by time, domain, tags & bookmarks.

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Category: end_user_applications
Techonology: react, javascript, browser extension, datproject
Topics: search, fake-news, decentralization, misinformation, bookmarking
Tags: worldbrain, analytics, api, native app, cloud backup, search improvements
Contact: gsoc@worldbrain.io
Twitter: https://twitter.com/realworldbrain
Primary Open Source License: MIT license (MIT)

X.org Foundation

The X.Org Foundation (or X.Org for short) is a foundation that encourages the development of the X Window System and related projects (Mesa, DRI, Wayland, etc.).

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Category: graphics
Techonology: opengl, vulkan, x11, wayland, opencl
Topics: graphic stack, 3d acceleration, 2d acceleration, media acceleration, windowing system
Tags: linux drm, mesa, x-server, wayland, media, opengl, opencl, vulkan
Contact: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Mailing List: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/xorgfoundation?lang=en
Blog: https://planet.freedesktop.org/
Primary Open Source License: MIT license (MIT)

Xapian Search Engine Library

Xapian is a Search Engine Library which aims to be fast, scalable, and flexible. The core library is written in C++, with bindings to allow use from many other languages.

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Category: data_and_databases
Techonology: c++, unicode, swig, linux, golang
Topics: search, information retrieval, machine learning, linguistics, indexing
Tags: bindings, weighting schemes, learning to rank, integration, testsuites, optimisations, omega
Contact: https://trac.xapian.org/wiki/GSoC_IRC
Mailing List: https://trac.xapian.org/wiki/GSoC_Mailing_List
Twitter: https://twitter.com/xapian
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPL-2.0)

XBMC Foundation

Kodi is a free and open source (GPL) software media player and entertainment hub for digital media.

Ideas List | Description

Category: graphics
Techonology: python, c/c++, github, mysql
Topics: home theater, audio, video
Tags: new feature, optimization, helper app contribution, other
Contact: http://kodi.wiki/view/Kodi_related_projects_and_sites
Twitter: http://twitter.com/KodiTV
Blog: https://kodi.tv/blog
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPL-2.0)

Xi Editor Project

A modern text editor with a backend written in Rust.

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Category: end_user_applications
Techonology: rust, swift
Topics: text editing, ide
Tags: new feature, integration
Contact: raph@google.com
Mailing List: https://www.reddit.com/r/xi_editor/
Primary Open Source License: Apache License 2.0 (Apache-2.0)

xpra.org

Xpra allows users to access individual applications or full desktops remotely.

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Category: end_user_applications
Techonology: python, javascript, compression, remote access, cython
Topics: graphics, remote access
Tags: new feature, acceleration, porting
Contact: antoine@devloop.org.uk
Mailing List: http://lists.devloop.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/shifter-users
Primary Open Source License: GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPL-2.0)

XWiki

XWiki offers a generic web platform for developing collaborative applications using the wiki paradigm, allowing customization through a vast collection of extensions.

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Category: web
Techonology: java, javascript, html5, css3, velocity
Topics: web development, wiki, platform, web applications, structured data
Tags: gsoc
Contact: devs@xwiki.org
Mailing List: http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Discuss#HMailingLists
Twitter: https://twitter.com/xwikiorg
Blog: http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Blog/
Primary Open Source License: GNU Library or "Lesser" General Public License version 2.1 (LGPL-2.1)

Zulip

Powerful, modern, open source team chat, complete with apps for every major platform.

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Category: social_communications
Techonology: python, django, javascript, react native, electron
Topics: web development, team chat, mobile applications, visual design
Tags: electron, mobile, design, bots and integrations, core features, other
Contact: https://chat.zulip.org
Mailing List: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/zulip-devel
Twitter: https://twitter.com/zulip
Blog: https://blog.zulip.org
Primary Open Source License: Apache License 2.0 (Apache-2.0)

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