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29 records across 2 programs2026Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 6 projects indexed
- Add Debug Adapter Protocol Support to GJS
- Gitg moving to GTK4
- Implementing App Uninstallation in the GNOME Shell App Grid
- Laureen Caliman Vocab Style Puzzles to GNOME Crosswords
- Pitivi Timeline Ruler: Native GTK4/Rust Rewrite
- Recover from GPU Resets
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 · 5 projects indexed
- Add Printing Support to GNOME Crosswords
- Adding eBPF profiling capabilities to Sysprof
- Improve GNOME Crossword Editor's word suggestion algorithm
- Papers: Proof of Concept for Backend Isolation in GNOME Papers
- Vala: XML, JSON, and/or YAML Integration
Source checked Sep 28, 2026
Participation imported from the GSoC Organizations archive snapshot; this historical listing is not an application-status claim.
2025OutreachyJune 2025 · 1 project indexed
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 · 8 projects indexed
- Add support for the latest GIR attributes and gi-docgen formatting to Valadoc
- Add TypeScript Support to Workbench
- Improve Tracker SPARQL developer experience by creating "web IDE" for developing queries
- Improve Tracker SPARQL developer experience by creating a "web IDE" for developing queries
- More durable synching for FlatSync
- Papers' small screen and touch support for mobile and tablet
- Port libipuz to Rust
- Port Workbench demos to Vala, build a new Workbench Library, and replace the current code search
Source checked Sep 28, 2026
Participation imported from the GSoC Organizations archive snapshot; this historical listing is not an application-status claim.
2024OutreachyMay 2024 · 1 project indexed
Source checked Oct 2, 2026
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2024OutreachyDecember 2024 · 5 projects indexed
- Add Debug Adapter Protocol (DAP) to GNOME Builder
- Add Git Commit Workflow to GNOME Builder
- Implement the SVG2 text layout algorithm in librsvg
- Improve GNOME Calendar sidebar
- Improve modularization and structure of Papers, the GNOME Document Viewer
Source checked Oct 2, 2026
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2023Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 9 projects indexed
- Add Acrostic Puzzles to GNOME Crosswords
- Create a New “System” panel in GNOME Settings
- Flatpak synching between machines
- GNOME Crosswords Anagram Support
- Implement backlog search in Polari IRC client
- Integrate GNOME Network Displays features into GNOME Settings
- Make GNOME platform demos and create offline documentation viewer for Workbench
- Make GNOME Platform Demos for Workbench
- Rust and GTK 4 Bustle Rewrite
Source checked Sep 28, 2026
Participation imported from the GSoC Organizations archive snapshot; this historical listing is not an application-status claim.
2023OutreachyMay 2023 · 1 project indexed
Source checked Oct 2, 2026
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2023OutreachyDecember 2023 · 1 project indexed
Source checked Oct 2, 2026
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2022Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 9 projects indexed
- Chromecast support for GNOME Network Displays
- Faces of GNOME - Continuing the Development of the Platform
- Fractal: Media history viewer
- GNOME HIG CSS Library
- Make "New Documents" feature discoverable
- Pitivi Timeline Enhancements
- Pitivi: Port UI to GTK4
- Revamp "New Document" submenu in GNOME Files.
- Reworking Sync Options for Health
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
- Extend the feature set of Rust GObject introspection code generator
- Migrate GNOME Translation Editor to Gtk4
Source checked Oct 2, 2026
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2022OutreachyDecember 2022 · 4 projects indexed
- Add observability to librsvg
- Create infrastructure for Performance tracking for librsvg
- Design toolings: Auto update Icon Library icons
- Extend the feature set of Rust GObject introspection code generator
Source checked Oct 2, 2026
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2021Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 12 projects indexed
- Design tooling: port to gtk 4
- Fractal NEXT
- Fractal: Multi account support
- Implement active resource management in GNOME
- Libadwaita animation API
- libsecret: Extend file backend to use TPM2 derived encryption keys
- Redesigning Health's MainView
- Rework of Faces of GNOME website
- Shell: Implementing Layout Managers in Rust
- Shell: update screenshot and screen recorder
- Tracker-miners: File creation time
- tracker: Improve custom ontology support
Source checked Sep 28, 2026
Participation imported from the GSoC Organizations archive snapshot; this historical listing is not an application-status claim.
2021OutreachyMay 2021 · 2 projects indexed
Source checked Oct 2, 2026
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2021OutreachyDecember 2021 · 2 projects indexed
Source checked Oct 2, 2026
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2020Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 14 projects indexed
- Adaptive Grid/Form Widget
- Add UI for importing and managing firmware in GNOME Games
- Battery Bench: Bring battery testing back to the future
- Design Improvements to Epiphany's dialogs
- Detecting Differences Between Two Non-Consecutive Commits For Gitg
- Evolution Data Server EteSync sync module
- Fractal: Multi account support
- gitg: polish and optimise files and diff plugins
- GNOME Shell: Notification Popover Redesign
- GNOME.org: Evaluation of requirements, content, design and components for the refresh of the website
- Implement Collections in GNOME Games
- Port Nautilus Properties Dialog to Use GtkBuilder
- Sound Recorder: Redesign the app to make it adaptive
- Support Remote Sources in Music
Source checked Sep 28, 2026
Participation imported from the GSoC Organizations archive snapshot; this historical listing is not an application-status claim.
2020OutreachyMay 2020 · 4 projects indexed
- Differences between two non-consecutive commits
- Evolution Data Server: EteSync sync module
- Polish gitg
- Redesign the GNOME Sound Recorder user interface to make it adaptive
Source checked Oct 2, 2026
See the program source for current details. Imported and normalized from Outreachy / Software Freedom Conservancy, CC-BY-3.0.
2020OutreachyDecember 2020 · 6 projects indexed
- Complete Gtranslator integration with Damned Lies
- Create a portable library for reading/writing libsecret keyring format
- Improve NetworkManager documentation
- Improve the Debugging Experience in GNOME's JavaScript Engine
- Librsvg: Implement SVG2/CSS3 features
- Librsvg: Revamp the text engine
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 · 8 projects indexed
- Converting GStreamer plugins to Rust
- GNOME Music: Full stack MusicBrainz integration
- gtk4-rs: GTK 4 Rust Bindings
- Implement side by side diff view in Gitg
- Improve Google-Drive support for GVfs
- Polari - Preview Links
- Rework the GTK Website
- Saved States Manager for GNOME Games
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 · 13 projects indexed
- Dino: Message Search
- Five or More: Modernisation
- Fractal UI redesign and new dialogs
- GJS Example Applications and Overall Improvement
- GNOME Games: Add Collection/Developer view
- Implement power panel in gnome-usage
- Improve the Fractal UI (A GTK Matrix client)
- librsvg: port filter effects to Rust
- Liu Jiahui's applicantion for gnome-logs
- Pitivi UI Polishing
- Pitivi: Scaled Proxies
- Tests, profiling and debug framework for Nautilus
- To Do: Make Todoist and Todo.txt integration shine
Source checked Sep 28, 2026
Participation imported from the GSoC Organizations archive snapshot; this historical listing is not an application-status claim.
2017Google Summer of CodeAnnual program · 19 projects indexed
- Code Search for GNOME Builder
- Documentation Cards for GNOME Builder
- Gamepads and Keyboard Configuration
- GNOME Calendar: Add support to recurrent events
- GNOME Disks: Resize and repair filesystems
- Gnome-shell UX Tweaks
- Implement a Plugin System in Pitivi and a set of plugins
- Improving the out-of-the-box cloud experience with Nextcloud and GNOME
- Improving word completion in gnome-builder
- Keysign: Alternative Key transports
- Mutter Wayland without X11
- Nautilus I/O Operation Management Rework
- Nautilus: Improve Search
- Pitivi - UI for the Ken-Burns effect
- Pitivi: Color correction interface using three chromatic wheels
- Rustify GJS
- Search and User Interface Improvements in GNOME Logs
- Sharing of shopping list in Recipes App
- To Do: Todoist integration
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 · 18 projects indexed
- Audio tag editing support for GNOME Music
- Boxes: More SPICE features
- Configurable Shortcuts for Pitivi
- Games: Add gamepad support
- Games: Support more game formats
- GNOME Music ownCloud support
- Horizontal Map Wrapping In Libchamplain
- Implementation of week view in GNOME Calendar
- Improve Search Functionality in GNOME Logs
- Improve the user experience for new and existing users
- Modernising GNOME Keysign
- Nautilus: Batch renaming
- Nautilus: Integrate file-roller and compressed file management
- PKCS#11 certificate chooser
- Proxies in NetworkManager
- Uploading photos to Google
- Web: Bookmarks Subsystem Update
- Web: Session Sync
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 · 22 projects indexed
- Add image viewing widget to GTK+
- Android/Gnome synergy : Creating a real interaction between PC and Phone
- Automated tests for Gnome-logs
- Boxes - Hardening Sprint, GtkAssistant and MIME-types Integration
- Develop The Java ATK Wrapper
- Disable USB on lockscreen
- Evolution configuration EExtension for ActiveSync
- Finishing the port of F-Spot to use GTK3
- Gedit code-analysis plugin using coala
- GNOME GUI for coala.
- GNOME Keysign - make it GNOME-ready
- Implement additional event sources for GNOME Shell's Time & Date drop-down
- Implement GnuPG pinentry program instead of Gnome Keyring GnuPG agent
- Implementation of gnome-document collections dialog
- Improve Banshee’s Mac OSX support and revamp the UI
- Improve drive and network management
- Make use of phone as a GPS device (AKA GPS sharing)
- Nibbles: Modernization
- Polari: Make progress on various bugfixes and enhancements
- Re-design of Getting things GNOME
- Refactor a gstdataprotocol library and create GStreamer's debugger
- UI Improvement and New Features Implementation for Gnome-Logs
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 · 35 projects indexed
- [Notes] Port Notes to WebKit2 and Implement mail as storage
- A PKCS#11 module to fetch X509 certificates for Evolution
- Add snapshotting and cloning of virtual machines to Gnome Boxes
- Add support to via points in Gnome Maps
- Advance Search and Remote Resources in GNOME Music
- An eBooks application based on Documents
- Automated tests for applications in GnomeContinuous
- Automated tests for applications in GnomeContinuous
- Banshee: Implement Bluetooth Synchronisation, Revamp MTP Support
- Banshee: Integrate with AcoustID
- Boxes - Hardening sprint, express installation improvements & ISO download
- Boxes: When creating a vm, offer to attach more than one monitor
- Evince: Post-it Notes-like annotations improvements
- Evolution: Complete instrospection support for EDS
- Getting Things Gnome!: Revamp the backends experience
- Geysigning - GNOME ideea for Google Summer of Code 2014
- Gnome shell applications animation improvement
- GNOME-Sudoku Modernization
- GNOMECAT
- Implement a image-sequence (stop-motion) element in Pitivi.
- Implementation of remote resources in GNOME Music
- Improve Annotation and Form Support in Evince
- Improve REST API Services integration in Banshee
- Improve Video Transformation and Viewer Interaction in Pitivi
- Maps: Foursquare and Facebook integration
- MusicBrainz support to EasyTAG
- Photos: Browse DLNA media servers
- Photos: Browse PicasaWeb content
- Points of Interest and User Check Ins on FourSquare & Facebook
- Port Four-in-a-Row to Vala
- Recurring tasks support
- Replace calculation back-end of Calculator with the GMP library
- REVAMPING THE UI OF GNOME-CALCULATOR AND PORTING HISTORY VIEW
- TV Shows support in Videos and MusicBrainz in Music with Grilo
- Weather integration with geocode-glib and geoclue
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 · 29 projects indexed
- A Web Application for Getting Things GNOME!
- Add Bookshelf View & Tiling support to Evince
- Add Lua support for Grilo plugins
- Banshee: Integrate with more REST API Services (SongKick and FanArt.TV)
- Break Timer application for GNOME 3
- Complete redesign of GNOME Shell's app picker
- Design implementation of Gnome Music
- Dual screen capable presentation in gnome-documents
- General bug fixing in pitivi.
- GNOME Archives Integration
- GNOME Sound Recorder
- Gnome Tweak Tool UI Refresh
- GObject Introspection for java-gnome
- Google Tasks support to libgdata and Evolution
- GSoC 2013 - Porting GTG and Liblarch to Gtk3 and Python3
- GtkSourceView: add regex search and modernize existing features
- GXml: easy and ready-to-use
- Implement a new avatar picker dialog that will pull from online sources
- Implement Caret and Focus Tracking for GNOME Shell
- Implement support for custom functions in GNOME Calculator
- Implementation of Gnome Music
- Improve gnome-clocks world view (pictures, geolocation)
- Modular encryption support
- Overhaul the Date & Time panel in System Settings
- RAW developer integration for the f-spot photo manager
- Redesign and port Gtranslator to Vala
- Support advanced operations (rebase, format-patch) in Gitg
- Support for Wayland in WebKit2GTK+
- Trip planning in GNOME Maps
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 · 28 projects indexed
- Ability to save and load virtual machine boxes
- Activity Development for GCompris, especially Music Education
- Anti malware and phishing daemon for the GNOME desktop
- Collaborative Getting Things GNOME!
- Completion of the Gnome Sudoku Vala Port
- Creation of a new library providing models and widgets to display and choose contacts
- Development of a graphical profiler for GNOME
- Documents: Removable devices support
- Get an useful state to Shotwell Faces tool
- GNOME Clock
- GNOME Documents UIs for Viewing and Editing of File Metadata
- GNOME Shell Lock Screen
- GNUcash Android Application
- GXml and GObject Serialisation
- Helping on anjuta mades everybody happy
- Improve overall Mac OS X port of Banshee
- Integrate GTG to Gnome-Shell
- Integration of multiple theme based activities in the existing GCompris suite
- libosinfo-based express installation for major OSes
- Lockdown editor
- Overhaul the Applications View
- Proposal to upgrade the UI of Gcalctool
- Refactor and Rework the Task Editor of Getting Things Gnome
- Replace lex-bison based parser with handwritten parser in gcalctool
- Revamp of the Activity Journal
- Smarter Searching in GNOME Shell
- Support for Gamepad API in WebKitGTK+ and general gamepad configuration options in System Settings
- Voice Control For Banshee
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 · 20 projects indexed
- A more useful Now Playing source for Banshee
- Anjuta Snippets Plug-in
- Clutter screensavers
- DACP support in Rhythmbox
- Ease : presentation authoring tool for the GNOME desktop
- Enhance the operation of GNOME Shell LookingGlass
- Extending Jokosher to Include a Musical Score Editor
- Flesh-Out the Message Tray in Gnome Shell
- gedit multiviews
- Getting things GNOME! integration with online services
- Getting Things GNOME! Web Service and API
- GNOME Project Mallard online
- GTK+ refactoring to make possible GTK+ 3
- Improving the desktop experience with the "Task" and "TaskMonitor" D-Bus API
- Make a Tracker based ORM
- Proposal for completing Jokosher Telepathy support for recording VoIP calls and extending it with Tubes support
- Rhythmbox: Improved Last.fm Plugin
- Spicing up Cheese - Sexier Form and More Function
- Totem Markers/Chapters Support
- Zeitgeist: Libzeitgeist wrapper around DBus API
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 · 24 projects indexed
- Add Geolocalized tasks (geoclue, libchamplain) in Getting Things Gnome
- add multisession capabilities to Brasero Nautilus extension
- Allow Tracker to search online resources (Flickr, Facebook, Google docs...)
- Anjuta Python Integration
- Anjuta: Add Language support for JavaScript
- Application-aware Window Management
- Banshee & Miro Guide: BFF OR Podcasting as a Service OR Cloudcasting OR [BUZZWORD]-asting.
- Convert Nibble to the Clutter OpenGL canvas and add some animations
- Create a new API for libsoup to download files and use the new GNIO library.
- F-Spot: RAW Integration & Processing
- GConf/GTK+ integration project
- GNOME Shell: Zeitgeist Integration
- GNOME-Games + Telepathy: Play GNOME-Sudoku with your IM contacts
- Implement local map rendering of OpenStreetMap data in libchamplain
- Implement Music Sharing in Banshee using the Telepathy API
- Improving the DVB experience with GNOME DVB Daemon
- Integrate bugzilla into pulse
- Mail as a desktop service
- Make Conduit work as a daemon
- Make Python bindings taking advantage of GObject-Introspection
- Nautilus: Add support to Google docs
- Rhythmbox Contextual Information Pane
- Rhythmbox: Media Player Synchronization
- The Continued Blingification of GNOME Games
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.