Debian
Debian is a volunteer-driven project building "the Universal Operating System", a 100% free and open source distribution, based on the Linux, FreeBSD and Hurd kernels, for all devices, ranging from mobile phones, personal computers, to mainframes and distributed cluster.
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26 records across 2 programs2026Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 7 projects indexed
- Attack of the Clones: Fight Back Using Code Duplication Detection From Security Patches
- Automated Debian Packaging with debianize
- Debian-LSP: Improve File Format Support
- DebNet Visualising the Bus Factor in the Debian Archive
- Debusine: debuginfod server
- Debusine: live log streaming
- Linux Livepatching
Source checked Sep 28, 2026
Participation imported from the GSoC Organizations archive snapshot; this historical listing is not an application-status claim.
2025Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 8 projects indexed
- autopkgtests for the rsync package
- Device-specific Tweaks Management Service (Tweakster)
- Enhancing Debian packages with ROCm GPU acceleration
- Enhancing Debian Packages with ROCm GPU Acceleration
- Enhancing Salsa CI in Debian
- Enhancing Salsa CI: Stats Dashboard, Local Execution, and Faster Pipelines
- Make Debian for Raspberry Pi Build Again
- Package LLM Inference Libraries
Source checked Sep 28, 2026
Participation imported from the GSoC Organizations archive snapshot; this historical listing is not an application-status claim.
2025OutreachyJune 2025
Project details are available from the participation source. This record does not list individual projects.
Source checked Oct 2, 2026
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2025OutreachyDecember 2025 · 1 project indexed
Source checked Oct 2, 2026
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2024Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 7 projects indexed
- Android SDK Tools in Debian
- Benchmarking Parallel Performance of Numerical MPI Packages
- Debian MobCom
- Expanding ROCm Support in Debian and Derivatives
- Implementation of the procps tools in Rust
- Improve support of the Rust coreutils in Debian
- Improve support of the Rust findutils in Debian
Source checked Sep 28, 2026
Participation imported from the GSoC Organizations archive snapshot; this historical listing is not an application-status claim.
2024OutreachyDecember 2024 · 2 projects indexed
- Automatic Indi-3rd-party driver update
- Make the Debian main website more attractive by switching to HuGo as site generator
Source checked Oct 2, 2026
See the program source for current details. Imported and normalized from Outreachy / Software Freedom Conservancy, CC-BY-3.0.
2023OutreachyDecember 2023 · 3 projects indexed
- Experiment to modernize the Debian Wiki
- Integrate yarn-plugin-apt into Gitlab Packaging and Nodejs Package Testing Workflows
- Quality assurance for biological and medical applications inside Debian
Source checked Oct 2, 2026
See the program source for current details. Imported and normalized from Outreachy / Software Freedom Conservancy, CC-BY-3.0.
2022Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 2 projects indexed
Source checked Sep 28, 2026
Participation imported from the GSoC Organizations archive snapshot; this historical listing is not an application-status claim.
2022OutreachyMay 2022 · 2 projects indexed
- Improve yarn package manager integration with Debian
- Quality assurance for biological and medical applications inside Debian
Source checked Oct 2, 2026
See the program source for current details. Imported and normalized from Outreachy / Software Freedom Conservancy, CC-BY-3.0.
2022OutreachyDecember 2022 · 3 projects indexed
Source checked Oct 2, 2026
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2021Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 5 projects indexed
- A Privacy-Respecting Email Service for Personal Servers
- Android SDK tools in Debian
- Incremental Improvements to Debian’s CI platform
- Packaging Caddy
- Quality Assurance and Continuous Integration for Applications in Life Sciences and Medicine
Source checked Sep 28, 2026
Participation imported from the GSoC Organizations archive snapshot; this historical listing is not an application-status claim.
2021OutreachyMay 2021 · 3 projects indexed
- Create a yarn plugin to resolve node modules installed via apt
- Debian Continuous Integration Platform Improvements
- Quality assurance for biological and medical applications inside Debian
Source checked Oct 2, 2026
See the program source for current details. Imported and normalized from Outreachy / Software Freedom Conservancy, CC-BY-3.0.
2021OutreachyDecember 2021 · 3 projects indexed
- Improve Debian Continuous Integration UX
- Improve the situation of crond in Debian
- Nodejs 16 and Webpack 5 transition in Debian
Source checked Oct 2, 2026
See the program source for current details. Imported and normalized from Outreachy / Software Freedom Conservancy, CC-BY-3.0.
2020Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 8 projects indexed
- Android SDK Tools for Debian
- Android SDK tools in Debian
- Android SDK Tools in Debian
- Architecture Cross-Grading Support in Debian
- BLAS/LAPACK Ecosystem Enhancement for Debian
- Downstream Upstream Cooperation in Ruby
- Packaging and Quality Assurance of COVID-19 Relevant Applications
- Quality Assurance and Continuous Integration for Applications in Life Sciences and Medicine
Source checked Sep 28, 2026
Participation imported from the GSoC Organizations archive snapshot; this historical listing is not an application-status claim.
2020OutreachyMay 2020 · 1 project indexed
Source checked Oct 2, 2026
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2020OutreachyDecember 2020 · 4 projects indexed
- Android SDK Tools in Debian
- Debian Continuous Integration Platform Improvements
- Packaging and Quality assurance of COVID 19 relevant applications
- Quality Assurance and Continuous Integration for Applications in Life Sciences and Medicine
Source checked Oct 2, 2026
See the program source for current details. Imported and normalized from Outreachy / Software Freedom Conservancy, CC-BY-3.0.
2019Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 5 projects indexed
- Android SDK tools in Debian
- Android SDK Tools in Debian
- Debian Cloud Image Finder
- Debian Patch Porting System
- Package Loomio for Debian
Source checked Sep 28, 2026
Participation imported from the GSoC Organizations archive snapshot; this historical listing is not an application-status claim.
2018Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 22 projects indexed
- A calendar database of social events and conferences
- Android SDK Tools in Debian
- Automatic builds with clang using OBS
- Automatic Packages for Everything
- Click To Dial Popup Window for the Linux Desktop
- Click To Dial Popup Window for the Linux Desktop
- Design and implementation of a Debian SSO solution
- EasyGnuPG Improvements
- Extracting data from PDF invoices and bills for financial accounting
- Free Software Habits - Firefox extension
- GSoC 2018 Android SDK tools in debian
- Improving Distro Tracker to better support Debian teams
- Kanban Board for Debian Bug Tracker and CalDAV servers
- OwnMailbox Improvements
- P2P Network Boot with BitTorrent
- Packaging and Updating Android SDK Tools
- PGP Clean Room Live CD
- Port Kali Packages to Debian
- Reverse Engineering Radiator Bluetooth Thermovalves
- Wizard/GUI helping students/interns apply and get started
- Wizard/GUI helping students/interns apply and get started
- Wizard/GUI helping students/interns apply and get started
Source checked Sep 28, 2026
Participation imported from the GSoC Organizations archive snapshot; this historical listing is not an application-status claim.
2016Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 20 projects indexed
- Android SDK Tools in Debian
- Android SDK Tools in Debian
- Android SDK Tools in Debian
- AppRecommender - integration with AppStream
- APT↔dpkg communication rework
- CI for Debian-Med
- Create new recommendation strategy for AppRecommender
- Developer Horizon and other extensions
- Improving distributed and secure communication using free software
- Improving voice, video and chat communication with free software
- Improving voice, video and chat communication with free software
- Improving voice, video and chat communication with free software
- Improving voice, video and chat communication with free software
- Improving WebRTC, Apache Camel and Jitsi
- Indexation over a distributed network
- Ring project
- Support for KLEE in Debile
- Telepathy Connection Manager for Ring protocol
- Web Client and Connection Manager for reSIProcate
- YooHoo - The Perfect Chat Engine
Source checked Sep 28, 2026
Participation imported from the GSoC Organizations archive snapshot; this historical listing is not an application-status claim.
2015Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 15 projects indexed
- Add new checkers in Debile
- Android tools in Debian
- Android Tools in Debian
- Archive built with asan
- Automated configuration of packaged web applications
- Blends Web Sentinel
- Bootable Clang-Built Debian
- Debsources as a platform
- Debsources as a platform
- Developer Horizon
- Improve Debian reproducible builds
- Improve one of the Debian MIPS ports (mips, mipsel, mips64el)
- Improve one of the Debian MIPS ports (mips, mipsel, mips64el)
- Project Proposal for Debian Apport
- Work for Move forward reproducible builds
Source checked Oct 2, 2026
Community mirror of the 2009–2015 Google Melange project archive. Original Melange project links may now redirect; the participation source retains the mirrored records. Organizations without indexed projects may be absent. Imported and normalized from Vaibhav Gupta / GSoC-Data-Analyser, MIT.
2014Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 17 projects indexed
- AppStream/DEP-11 for the Debian Archive
- Bootstrappable Debian
- Debian built with clang
- Debian Clang
- Debian Continuous Integration
- Debian Continuous Integration - Web Interface Improvements
- Debian Metrics Portal
- Get Muon ready
- Improve Configuration Upgrade Mechanism with Elektra
- Improve Debian port on mips/mipsel
- Improve Debian port on mipsel
- Integrate Debian with Android
- ListArchive
- Package elementary software
- Provide some metrics in Debile
- Recursively Building Java Project Dependencies
- WebRTC portal for the Debian community
Source checked Oct 2, 2026
Community mirror of the 2009–2015 Google Melange project archive. Original Melange project links may now redirect; the participation source retains the mirrored records. Organizations without indexed projects may be absent. Imported and normalized from Vaibhav Gupta / GSoC-Data-Analyser, MIT.
2013Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 15 projects indexed
- Add OCRA support to oath-toolkit and dynalogin
- Bootstrappable Debian
- Debian Android Application
- Debian GNU/Hurd Debianish initialization
- Enabling free multimedia real-time communications (RTC) with Debian
- Implementation of message passing in the Debian infrastructure
- Improvements to Debian Search and the Search Interface
- Leiningen & Clojure packaging
- MIPS N32/N64 ABI Port
- OpenJDK and Debian
- OpenRC init system in Debian
- PTS rewrite in Django
- Redesign metapackage creation for Debian Blends
- scan-build on the Debian archive
- ZFS on Linux integration
Source checked Oct 2, 2026
Community mirror of the 2009–2015 Google Melange project archive. Original Melange project links may now redirect; the participation source retains the mirrored records. Organizations without indexed projects may be absent. Imported and normalized from Vaibhav Gupta / GSoC-Data-Analyser, MIT.
2012Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 12 projects indexed
- Bootstrappable Debian
- Clang support for build services
- Improve debian-installer network setup
- Improving Debian Team Activity Metrics
- improving the online package review interface for mentors.debian.net
- multi-archive support for dak
- Multiarch Cross-Toolchains
- Pluggable Acquire-System for APT
- Port bootstrap build-ordering tool
- Provide an alternative to libstdc++ with libc++
- PyPi to Debian repository converter
- Semantic Package Review Interface for mentors.debian.net
Source checked Oct 2, 2026
Community mirror of the 2009–2015 Google Melange project archive. Original Melange project links may now redirect; the participation source retains the mirrored records. Organizations without indexed projects may be absent. Imported and normalized from Vaibhav Gupta / GSoC-Data-Analyser, MIT.
2011Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 7 projects indexed
- Apt ordering code improvements
- Apt Ordering Code Improvements
- Backend tools for DEX
- Debdelta Integration
- Declarative diversions
- Jigsaw
- Measuring Team Performance in Debian Pure Blends
Source checked Oct 2, 2026
Community mirror of the 2009–2015 Google Melange project archive. Original Melange project links may now redirect; the participation source retains the mirrored records. Organizations without indexed projects may be absent. Imported and normalized from Vaibhav Gupta / GSoC-Data-Analyser, MIT.
2010Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 8 projects indexed
- Aptitude Qt
- Debbugs Bug Reporting and Manipulation API
- Debian-installer on Neo FreeRunner
- High Performance Computing on Clouds
- Hurd Debian-Installer
- Improve Package config upgrades
- MultiArch support in APT
- Smart Upload Server
Source checked Oct 2, 2026
Community mirror of the 2009–2015 Google Melange project archive. Original Melange project links may now redirect; the participation source retains the mirrored records. Organizations without indexed projects may be absent. Imported and normalized from Vaibhav Gupta / GSoC-Data-Analyser, MIT.
2009Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 7 projects indexed
- Automatic debug packages creation and handling
- Control Files Parsing/Editing Library/Qt4-Debconf Qt4-Perl bindings
- Debbugs web UI: amancay strikes back
- Debian-Installer Support for GNU/kFreeBSD
- Distribution-independent update-manager
- MTD Embedded Onboard flash Partitioning and Installation
- On-demand Cloud Computing with Amazon EC2 and Eucalyptus Integration
Source checked Oct 2, 2026
Community mirror of the 2009–2015 Google Melange project archive. Original Melange project links may now redirect; the participation source retains the mirrored records. Organizations without indexed projects may be absent. Imported and normalized from Vaibhav Gupta / GSoC-Data-Analyser, MIT.