Google Summer of Code 2016
A complete overview of Google Summer of Code 2016 including participating organizations, projects, technology trends, and key statistics.
Participating Orgs
178
0 veterans
New Orgs
178
100% of total
Total Projects
1032
~5.8 avg/org
Participants
1032
~5.8 per org
Mentors
1396
~7.8 per org
Countries
N/A
Data unavailable
Top Language
Python
Most projects
Edition
#12
Year 2016
2016 Year Insights & Statistics
Project Difficulty Distribution
Breakdown of project difficulty levels
178
orgs
Beginner: 0 (0%)
Intermediate: 1032 (100%)
Advanced: 0 (0%)
Organizations with Most Projects
Top organizations by project count in 2016
Highest Selections in GSoC 2016
Top selections by tech stack and organization
By Tech Stack
By Organization
First-Time Organizations
Organizations that joined GSoC for the first time in 2016
Python Software Foundation
The Apache Software Foundation
KDE Community
R project for statistical computing
Debian
OSGeo (Open Source Geospatial Foundation)
Systers, an Anita Borg Institute community
FOSSASIA
GNOME Foundation
GNU Project
National Resource for Network Biology (NRNB)
Mozilla
INCF
Ruby
The FreeBSD Project
Apertium
Eclipse Foundation
OpenCV
The Honeynet Project
The Linux Foundation
WSO2
Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society
CERN SFT
Computational Science and Engineering at TU Wien
The JPF team
The Julia Language
BRL-CAD
Drupal Association
JBoss Community
LibreOffice
OpenMRS
Scala Center
Blender Foundation
CiviCRM
DBpedia
LabLua
freifunk
FFmpeg
Indic Project
International Catrobat Association
LLVM Compiler Infrastructure
NumFOCUS
Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF)
Open Robotics
OpenAstronomy
SCoRe Lab
SymPy
TEAMMATES @ National University of Singapore
jQuery Foundation
AOSSIE - The Australian National University's Open-Source Software Innovation and Education
BeagleBoard.org
Beam Community
CCExtractor Development
Fedora Project
Health Information Systems Programme
Open Genome Informatics
Portland State University
QEMU
The Mifos Initiative
Wikimedia Foundation
mlpack
openSUSE Project
Biomedical Informatics, Emory University
Computational Biology @ University of Nebraska-Lincoln
GNU Octave
Gentoo Foundation
Joomla!
MIT App Inventor
MariaDB
Nmap Security Scanner
OWASP Foundation
Orange – Data Mining Fruitful & Fun
PRISM Model Checker
Public Lab
RTEMS Project
Red Hen Lab
RoboComp
SageMath
Scilab
Sugar Labs
The Tor Project
Xapian Search Engine Library
cBioPortal for Cancer Genomics
BuildmLearn
Ceph Foundation
D Language Foundation
GitHub
Homebrew
Inclusive Design Institute
KolibriOS Project Team
Liquid Galaxy project
MetaBrainz Foundation Inc
Moodle
OpenStreetMap
ReactOS Foundation
Ruby Science Foundation
Ste||ar group
Stony Brook University Biomedical Informatics
The NetBSD Foundation
libvirt
lowRISC
strace
syslog-ng
52°North Spatial Information Research GmbH
ASCEND
BioJS
Canadian Centre for Computational Genomics
Celluloid
Eclipse Vert.x
Free and Open Source Silicon Foundation
GNSS-SDR
GNU Mailman Project
Gambit - Software Tools for Game Theory
Global Alliance for Genomics and Health
Green Navigation
MBDyn
McGill Space Institute
Mobile Robot Programming Toolkit (MRPT)
ModSecurity
MuseScore
Netfilter project
Physical Web Project
Plone Foundation
Radare
ScummVM
Shogun
Soletta Project
TARDIS SN
The Terasology Foundation
Timelab Technologies Ltd.
Urban Energy Systems Laboratory, Empa
VideoLAN
Zulip
aimacode
coreboot
vitrivr
ArchC
Boston University / XIA
Chapel
Classical Language Toolkit
CloudCV
Copyleft Games
Discourse
Distributed and Unified Numerics Environment (DUNE)
GNU Radio
Genes, Genomes and Variation
Inkscape
Matrix.org
Mixxx
Open Chemistry
Open Detection
Open Ephys
OpenKeychain (OpenPGP for Android)
P2PSP.org
Performance Co-Pilot
The Wine Project
TimVideos.us
Unitex/GramLab
X.Org Foundation
gRPC
ownCloud
CVXPY
Django Software Foundation
FOSDEM
GPAC
Ganeti
Git
Jenkins
OSU Open Source Lab
Oppia Foundation
PLASMA-UMass
Sigmah
The Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling
The Monarch Initiative
Wayland
JSK Robotics Laboratory / The University of Tokyo
Peragro
XWikiOrganizations
178 participating of 178 announced
Python Software Foundation
49 projects
The Apache Software Foundation
35 projects
KDE Community
32 projects
R project for statistical computing
22 projects
Debian
20 projects
OSGeo (Open Source Geospatial Foundation)
20 projects
Systers, an Anita Borg Institute community
19 projects
FOSSASIA
18 projects
GNOME Foundation
18 projects
GNU Project
15 projects
National Resource for Network Biology (NRNB)
15 projects
Mozilla
13 projects
Projects
All 1032 projects in GSoC 2016
Terrain Model Generation and Analysis
Usability improvements for smle
Visual Analytics of EnviroCar Tracks
Implementation of Module on Logic (Chapters 7 – 9) for 4th Edition
Python Implementations & Visualization of Algorithms in AIMA 4th Edition.
‘aima-python’ code to accompany the book “AI: A Modern Approach”
Implementation of theorem prover based on Skeptik's data structures and Conflict Resolution algorithm
Local Community Detection Search Using a Conceptual View
Parsers implementation and extension of proof compression algorithms from propositional to first-order logic
Dynamic Network Analysis in Rogas
Mentors & Contributors
Community members participating in GSoC 2016
| Organization | Mentors | Contributors |
|---|---|---|
| 52°North Spatial Information Research GmbH | CDanowski, Benno Schmidt | aishcat5 |
| 52°North Spatial Information Research GmbH | jansch, Carsten Hollmann, Simon Jirka, Christian Autermann | sheff_146 |
| 52°North Spatial Information Research GmbH | dewall, Matthes Rieke, Christoph Stasch | Naveen Jafer |
| aimacode | ctjoreilly | anurag_rai |
| aimacode | PeterNorvig | reachtarunhere |
| aimacode | PeterNorvig | SnShines |
| AOSSIE - The Australian National University's Open-Source Software Innovation and Education | Katya, Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo | itegulov |
| AOSSIE - The Australian National University's Open-Source Software Innovation and Education | Qing | Omid Rezvani |
| AOSSIE - The Australian National University's Open-Source Software Innovation and Education | Katya, Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo | Ezequiel Postan |
| AOSSIE - The Australian National University's Open-Source Software Innovation and Education | Minjian Liu, Qing | Yan Xiao |
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