Last took part in 2022

Public Lab

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Contributors in 2026

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Projects since 2016

6.3 a cycle on average

Cycles

6 of 11

First in 2016

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for 3 projects in 2022

Contributors per cycle

Accepted projects each year, against the median organization that year

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Public Lab contributors per cycle
	Public Lab	Median organization
2016	5	4
2017	5	4
2018	9	3
2019	12	4
2020	0	4
2021	4	4
2022	3	3
2023	0	4
2024	0	4
2025	0	5
2026	0	4

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Is Public Lab in GSoC 2026?: No. It last took part in 2022.
How long has it taken part?: 6 of 11 cycles since 2016, first in 2016.
How many contributors does it usually take?: 6.3 a cycle on average, 38 in total. Its largest cycle was 2019, with 12.
What does it build with?: JavaScript, Ruby On Rails, WebRTC, Leaflet, Ruby, Node.js and 1 more.

Accepted projects

3 projects in 2022 · All 38 projects since 2016

Refine User Interfaces across PublicLab.org
Karishma VanwariMentored by Jeffrey Yoo Warren, cesswairimu
This project aims at improving User Interface/User Experience (UI/UX) related features across PublicLab.org. This includes better interlinked...
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Infragram.org: full-screen UI and video upload
ForchaMentored by Jeffrey Yoo Warren, Tilda Udufo
Infragram enhances enviromental research capacity by providing a convenient and low cost method to monitor plant health. This project will deliver...
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Legacy Code Deprecation
Anirudh PrabhakaranMentored by Jeffrey Yoo Warren, cesswairimu
The PublicLab code base has a lot of legacy code. One reason for this is converting it to a Ruby on Rails app from a Drupal site, and another reason...
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Image Sequencer enhancement focusing Module Implementations, Particle analysis and code Maintainability.
AASHNA MITTALMentored by Rahul-Bhatia, jainaman224, Jeffrey Warren +2
My proposal is based on enhancements that would incorporate real world use cases into the project and testing and maintainability that will bring...
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`matcher.js` library and `Leaflet.DistortableImage` overhaul
Pranshu SrivastavaMentored by Jeffrey Warren, Sagarpreet Chadha-1, Igor Wilbert +2
This project is divided into two parts, namely, building a matcher.js library and revamping Public Lab's Leaflet.DistortableImage repository, a...
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A small proposal for global environmental monitoring with Image Sequencer
Margaret NortonMentored by Sagarpreet Chadha-1, Rahul-Bhatia, Jeffrey Warren +1
The project will increase Image Sequencer capability while simultaneously demonstrating the ability to process satellite images. The general approach...
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Mapknitter Rails Upgrade
Álax AlvesMentored by Jeffrey Warren, jainaman224, Sourav Sahoo +2
Increase test coverage. Improve CI integration and pipelining. Upgrade Rails framework version
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GSoC proposal Public Labs: Notification System and UX Improvements
Gautami GuptaMentored by Atibhi, Emmanuel Hayford, Sidharth +3
Notification System Notification system mainly consists of two parts, In-app Navbar Notifications and Web Push Notifications. -In-app Navbar...
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Mapknitter Rails upgrade
Kaustubh NairMentored by jainaman224, Sasha Boginsky, Sourav Sahoo +2
This project MapKnitter's Rails version from 3.2 to the latest stable version. Along with this, I will also be: Increasing test coverage Improving...
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Sensor Data Upload and Display Library
Isha GuptaMentored by Geekychaser, Sidharth, Cess +3
A standalone HTML+JavaScript based library through which CSV data can be uploaded and charts can be plotted by selecting different columns from it....
Project Summary
Community Toolbox Overhaul
Rishabh RawatMentored by Jeffrey Warren, Sagarpreet Chadha-1, Harshith
Community-toolbox allows everybody to take a look at the activities going on in the PublicLab projects, helps in welcoming newcomers. It plays a...
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Image-Sequencer v3: Boosting the performance and adding demonstration based on colorimetry
Divy KhareMentored by Rahul-Bhatia, Sagarpreet Chadha-1, Igor Wilbert +2
This project aims to boost the performance of Image Sequencer project by using WebAssembly for accelerating the performance of various parts of code...
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Mapknitter synchronous editing
Vidit ChitkaraMentored by Jeffrey Warren, Sidharth, jainaman224
Multi user synchronous image editing in realtime (publiclab/mapknitter)
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Websocket Interaction for Real-time Interaction and Sensor data and Display Library
namanguptaMentored by Jeffrey Warren, Sidharth, Gaurav Sachdeva
Integration of ActionCable to implement web Sockets for Various Real-Time communication in the plots2 project such as for Notification, Comments etc....
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Mapknitter Image Management and Synchronous Editing
Divya BaidMentored by Jeffrey Warren, Sourav Sahoo, Sidharth +3
MapKnitter is based around the upload of images, the positioning of those images on a map, and the compositing of those images into map export...
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Computer Vision enhancements for Raspberry Pi based Public Lab Science Projects
Margaret NortonMentored by amirber, icarito, jywarren
The project would provide a series of modular python programs that could be used to support different Public Lab imaging and spectrum measurement...
Project Code
Social Media Integration and Leaflet Environmental-Layers Library .
Sagarpreet ChadhaMentored by Stevie Lewis, jywarren, Bronwen Densmore
People are increasingly engaging with Public Lab community and questions via Twitter . This project helps in : Generating more content to PublicLab...
Project Summary
Image Sequencer v2
tech4gtMentored by Ujjwal Sharma, gretchengehrke, Mayank Kashyap +1
Image Sequencer is a sequential image processing library completely written in javascript which currently supports Node.js and the browser. It has...
Project Summary
Email integration Project
Naman GuptaMentored by Mayank Kashyap, jywarren, Stevie Lewis
The current implementation of Email System in PLOTS2 doesn't implement Active Jobs i.e queue feature because it is currently using rails 4.1. And...
Project Summary
OAuth & Upgrade to Bootstrap 4
Sidharth BansalMentored by Mayank Kashyap, Ujjwal Sharma, jywarren +1
Authorising users through Google, Facebook, Github and Twitter through Omniauth gem and upgrading the current bootstrap version 3 to version 4.
Project Work
Draft Feature and Email Integration project
Gaurav SachdevaMentored by jywarren, Stevie Lewis
Draft Feature: This feature would allow users to save their research note as a draft so that user can complete it anytime. It would also allow a user...
Project Work
Email Notification Overhaul
Vidit ChitkaraMentored by Amanda Snow, jywarren, Stevie Lewis
The aim of this proposal is to enhance user experience. The features which are integrated in this proposal are:- 1) Reply to comments by email - A...
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Upgrade to Rails 5
Sourav SahooMentored by Emmanuel Hayford, jywarren
In this summer I want to work on upgrading the code of plots2 repository to rails 5.0 and rails 5.1. The project would have many challenges to...
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Leaflet BLurred Location Part 2
Mridul NagpalMentored by Ujjwal Sharma, Mayank Kashyap, jywarren +1
Improving currently existing leaflet blurred location library, also building a new library named leaflet blurred location display currently in...
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