Google Summer of Code 2007

This is a page lists the students and organizations that participated in the Google Summer of Code 2007 program. If you you are interested in the latest program information, see the main Summer of Code page.

Participating Organizations

AbiSource

Homepage: http://www.abisource.com/
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

The AbiSource community consists of a highly skilled group of people interested in, as our tagline states, bringing Word Processing to Everyone. We do this for example by making our software, AbiWord being our flagship product, available on as many (operating) systems as possible, and adapting it for use on the One Laptop Per Child system.

Projects

  • Systematically Breaking and Fixing AbiCollab

    by Ryan Pavlik, mentored by J.M. Maurer
  • 'Putting libabiword on a Diet'

    by Robert Staudinger, mentored by Dominic Lachowicz
  • Abiword: OpenXML importer

    by Philippe Milot, mentored by Kamran Khan
  • 4. Implement annotations

    by Ernesto Rivera, mentored by Martin Edmund Sevior
  • Interface service for the use of external grammar checkers in Abiword

    by Gabriel Bakiewicz, mentored by Dominic Lachowicz

Adium

Homepage: https://adium.im/
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Adium is an messaging application for Mac OS X that can connect to AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, and more. The Adium project is a loosely organized group of volunteers that handles almost everything related to developing, distributing, and supporting the application.

Projects

  • Improving multi-user chat

    by Erik E. Beerepoot, mentored by David Smith
  • (Un)Lock groups

    by Andre Cohen, mentored by Brian Eric Ganninger
  • Fix & expand AppleScript

    by Matthew Handley, mentored by Peter Hosey
  • Improving Adium's XMPP Support

    by Andreas Monitzer, mentored by Robert August Fackler
  • Improved Bonjour Support for Adium

    by Erich Kreutzer, mentored by Andrew Wellington

Audacious Media Player

Homepage: http://audacious-media-player.org
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Audacious is a successor to Beep Media Player, a GTK2 port of XMMS. Our direction is different than BMPx/BMP2 in that we started by rewriting what was there, instead of starting from scratch. The project is going strong with about 15-20 developers working on it now.

Projects

  • D-Bus Support

    by Ben Tucker, mentored by William Pitcock
  • CD-Text support for the CDAudio plugin

    by Calin Crisan, mentored by Tony Vroon
  • Rewrite widgetcore as real GTK2 widgets

    by Tomasz Mon, mentored by William Pitcock
  • Additional NewVFS transports

    by Cristian Măgherușan, mentored by William Pitcock

Aqsis Team

Homepage: http://www.aqsis.org
Preferred License: GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

Aqsis is a GPL/LGPL cross-platform photo-realistic 3D rendering solution, based on the RenderMan interface standard defined by Pixar Animation Studios. Its focus is on stability and production usage with features that include constructive solid geometry, depth-of-field, extensible shading engine (DSOs), instancing, level-of-detail, motion blur, NURBS, procedural plugins, programmable shading, subdivision surfaces, subpixel displacements and more. We have a good working relationship with other notable open source projects, such as Blender, K-3D, LiquidMaya and MakeHuman.

Projects

  • Multi-threaded Implementation

    by Manuel Antonio Fernandez Montecelo, mentored by Tristan Colgate
  • Deep Shadow Maps implementation for the rendering of coloured shadows and hair/fur shadows

    by Zachary Carter, mentored by Christopher James Foster

Ardour

Homepage: http://ardour.org/
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Ardour is a 7 year old project to implement a professional quality digital audio workstation for POSIX-like operating systems. Ardour has been featured in many magazines and won several awards. There are approximately 40 contributors to the project over the last 5 years, and 9 developers with repository commit priviledges. We run a very active IRC channel, Ardour offers student a rare chance to work on hard design problems, real time coding and complex GUI design in a real and exciting application.

Projects

  • Piano-Roll MIDI Editing Interface

    by David Edward Robillard, mentored by Paul Davis
  • n.m panning

    by Christian James Muise, mentored by Jesse Chappell

ArgoUML

Homepage: http://argouml.tigris.org
Preferred License: Eclipse Public License

ArgoUML is a popular open source UML modeling tool that includes support for all standard UML 1.4 diagrams. It runs on any Java platform and is available in ten languages. Code generation and reverse engineering is provided for various programming languages. A plugin architecture allows this as well as other features of the product to be extended by developers outside of the core development team. Work is in progress in many areas of the project including upgrade to UML2.x and migration to the Eclipse RCP Framework.

Projects

  • UML2 for ArgoUML

    by Pistol Constandache Bogdan Ciprian, mentored by Tom Morris
  • Extending ArgoUML to support UML Profiles

    by Marcos Aurelio Almeida da Silva, mentored by Linus Tolke
  • Sequence Diagrams improvements

    by Christian Lopez Espinola, mentored by Robert James Tarling
  • ArgoPDF – The PDF report generation tool.

    by Dzmitry Churbanau, mentored by Ion Savin
  • Alternative GUI layer in GEF library for ArgoUML project

    by Jian Zheng, mentored by Robert James Tarling

The Apache Software Foundation

Homepage: http://www.apache.org
Preferred License: Apache License, 2.0

The Apache Software Foundation provides support for the Apache community of open-source software projects. The Apache projects are characterized by a collaborative, consensus based development process, an open and pragmatic software license, and a desire to create high quality software that leads the way in its field. We consider ourselves not simply a group of projects sharing a server, but rather a community of developers and users.

Projects

  • Improve Velocity Macro capability

    by Supun Madhushanka Kamburugamuva, mentored by William Glass-Husain
  • Canonical XML Implementation on Apache AXIOM

    by Saliya Ekanayake, mentored by Ruchith Fernando
  • Implementing Mail Transport (SMTP/POP3) support for SOAP 1.2 for Axis2/C

    by Rajika Kumarasiri, mentored by Saminda Wishwajith Abeyruwan
  • Unified expression handling and unified object model in Apache Cocoon

    by Grzegorz Kossakowski, mentored by Daniel Fagerstrom
  • Streaming LOB support (for OpenJPA)

    by Ignacio Andreu Dolset, mentored by Patrick Linskey
  • Maven Diagram-Maker

    by Piotr Tabor, mentored by Jason van Zyl
  • Implementing “Dobly” Noise Reduction for SpamAssassin

    by Jianyong Dai, mentored by Michael Parker
  • MyFaces Renderer Based on Templates

    by Sorin Silaghi, mentored by Werner Punz
  • Enhancing Batik's document viewer

    by Ivan Andjelkovic, mentored by Cameron McCormack
  • The Persistent Database Connection Plugin

    by Zhang Shunchang, mentored by Michael Parker
  • Adding Functionality and Usability Improvements to Chainsaw

    by Isuru Eranga Suriarachchi, mentored by Paul Smith
  • Proposal for JSON Support for Apache Axis2/C

    by T.G. Kasun Indrasiri, mentored by Nandika Jayawardana
  • MyFaces Component Set Integration

    by Leonardo Alfredo Uribe Panesso, mentored by Martin Marinschek
  • JAX-WS 2.0 support for Apache Axis2 WSDL2Java Code Generator

    by Sameera Madushan Jayasoma, mentored by Amila Chinthaka Suriarachchi
  • MyFaces Component Generator

    by Bernhard Huemer, mentored by Werner Punz
  • JCR Demo Application based on Jackrabbit

    by Nandana Sampath Mihindukulasooriya, mentored by Jukka Zitting
  • Add support for the StAX (JSR-173) cursor API to Xerces-J

    by Wei Duan, mentored by Michael Glavassevich
  • Design and implementation a better document inspector

    by Jasleen Singh, mentored by Cameron McCormack
  • Convert Derby tests to JUnit and fix Derby bugs

    by Ramin Moazeni, mentored by Katherine Marsden
  • Convert Derby tests to JUnit and fix Derby bugs

    by Ravinder Reddy Pandiri, mentored by Samuel Andrew McIntyre
  • jackrabbit-jcr-demo: μAssessment (muAssessment) Testing System

    by Pavel Konnikov, mentored by Jukka Zitting

BBC Research

Homepage: http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/
Preferred License: Mozilla Public License 1.1 (MPL)

The BBC exists to enrich people’s lives with great programmes and service that inform, educate and entertain. Its vision is to be the most creative, trusted organisation in the world. We're looking for people not only interested in the cutting edge of the distribution of television programmes over the internet to our audience, but also component technologies encouraging reuse, and collaborative system, specifically interested in using our Kamaelia (mainly python) & Dirac (mainly C++) open source projects. Kamaelia is a research tool for producing anything from PVRs, collaborative whiteboards, games through to streaming servers making parallelism simple through a component approach. Dirac is a next generation wavelet based video codec. The BBC also has a number of other open source projects - which can be found at http://www.bbc.co.uk/opensource/. <P>Kamaelia's aim is to make it easier and more fun to make software, quickly and maintainably in a way that makes concurrency (eg multicore) easy and fun to work with. The more code that is multicore friendly, the easier we make it for everyone. We are as interested in experienced students as we are in experienced.

Projects

  • Motion estimation and mode decision in Dirac

    by Andrew Lewis, mentored by Andrea Gabriellini
  • A file handle like interface to backgrounded Kamaelia components

    by Patrick Thomson, mentored by Michael Philip Sparks
  • AIM/IRC client for Kamaelia

    by Jinna Lei, mentored by Matt Hammond
  • Visual Editor for Creation & Composition of Shard Components

    by tara gilliam, mentored by Michael Philip Sparks

Beagle

Homepage:
Preferred License: MIT license

Beagle is a search tool that ransacks your personal information space to find whatever you're looking for. More technically, Beagle is a Linux desktop-independent service which transparently and unobtrusively indexes your data in real-time. Beagle supports many different data sources and file formats. To learn more about Beagle, visit http://beagle-project.org. We are a fairly small group of hackers working on making desktop search 'Just Work' for Linux desktop users. Beagle has been around for nearly three years, and ships with most Linux distributions, including Novell's SUSE-based distributions, Fedora, Ubuntu, Gentoo, and many others.

Projects

  • Browser Extension Rewrite for beagle

    by Tao Fei, mentored by Joe Shaw
  • A Xesam-based D-Bus interface and some TextCache improvements for Beagle

    by Arun Raghavan, mentored by Joe Shaw
  • Thunderbird backend rewrite

    by Pierre Östlund, mentored by Debajyoti Bera

Blender Foundation

Homepage: http://www.blender.org
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

The Blender Foundation is an independent organization (a Dutch "stichting"), acting as a non-profit public benefit corporation, with the following goals: * To establish services for active users and developers of Blender. * To maintain and improve the current Blender product via a public accessible source code system under the GNU GPL license. * To establish funding or revenue mechanisms that serve the foundation's goals and cover the foundation's expenses. * To give the worldwide Internet community access to 3D technology in general, with Blender as a core.

Projects

  • Proposal to implement deep shadow maps and a tiling disk cache in Blender.

    by Joseph Eagar, mentored by Martin Poirier
  • A Render API for Blender (version 3)

    by Aaron Daniel Moore, mentored by Ton Roosendaal
  • Blender audio system cleanup and upgrade

    by Csaba Hruska, mentored by Robert C. Holcomb Jr.
  • A GLSL Shader Editing and Preview System for Blender

    by José Miguel da Silva Torres Lima, mentored by Brecht Van Lommel
  • Mesh bevel and offset tools/modifiers

    by Levi Schooley, mentored by Geoffrey Bantle

Boost C++

Homepage: http://www.boost.org
Preferred License: Boost Software License 1.0

Boost provides free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries. We emphasize libraries that work well with the C++ Standard Library. Boost libraries are intended to be widely useful and usable across a broad spectrum of applications. The Boost license encourages both commercial and non-commercial use. We aim to establish "existing practice" and provide reference implementations so that Boost libraries are suitable for eventual standardization. Ten Boost libraries are already included in the C++ Standards Committee's Library Technical Report (TR1) as a step toward becoming part of a future C++ Standard. More Boost libraries are proposed for the upcoming TR2.

Projects

  • User-friendly graphs and their measures

    by Andrew Sutton, mentored by Jeremy Siek
  • FastCGI and SCGI-compatible CGI library

    by Darren Garvey, mentored by Christopher M Kohlhoff
  • Boost 'Big Integer' proposal

    by Arseny Kapoulkine, mentored by Jeff Garland
  • Signal Network library

    by Stjepan Rajko, mentored by Douglas Gregor
  • Visualization Of Arrays And STL Containers

    by Jacob Robert Voytko, mentored by Joaquín María López Muñoz
  • Boost.Extension and Reflection

    by Mariano Gabriel Consoni, mentored by Hartmut Kaiser

BZFlag

Homepage: http://bzflag.org
Preferred License: GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

BZFlag is a free online multiplayer cross-platform open source 3D tank battle game that is maintained by an active community of individuals distributed all around the world.. It is one of the most successful and sustained cross-platform open source games ever with an active developer, administrative, and player community. There have been more than a million downloads in the last five years alone and our user base presently consists of more than 200 players online at any time of day or night. The project has actually become more popular over the years as we continue to improve and enhance the game. BZFlag has been under active development since 1992. Our organization is presently comprised of a rather disparate group of individuals that work on BZFlag because they love the game and the community that surrounds it. There are presently 71 individuals entrusted with access to BZFlag core resources including 46 individuals that have committed source code modifications over the project's life span. Our developer base presently consists of 9 documented core developers that have made extensive contributions to the game and remained active over many years, along with about a dozen apprentice-level developers that are coming up in the ranks, and about two dozen peripheral/casual developers, extension developers, and web integration programmers. Additionally, there are several dozen trusted staffers, server operators, and graphic artists that assist in the day-to-day operations needed by the game for keeping servers up and running, providing server list services, designing artwork, providing network statistics, image hosting, web hosting, and much more. All of our project developers almost exclusively collaborate on the #bzflag Freenode IRC channel, which is the central hub for most of our development discussions, decision planning meetings, game operations, and network infrastructure administration. We operate via a benevolent dictatorship combined with a meritocracy that strives for consensus between the core developers and other involved community members. Extensive discussions are held for any changes to BZFlag that affect the game's traditional "spirit", mood of gameplay, tone of the user environment, and types of interactions possible in the game. These discussions also include considerations whenever there are new features being added such as new flags, enhanced graphics, or changes to the gameplay. We also serve as a support arm to our user community assisting them with anything from how to get started playing to providing assistance with setting up their own server or even helping them write their own new extensions to the game. From IRC, we administer network operations for the approximate 18638 registered player base and for the tens of thousands of unregistered players that engage in more than 10000 daily player sessions across more than 250 public servers. As we are a globally distributed network-oriented game, we also maintain the public server listings, provide player tracking, network statistics, global authentication, user and group management, abuse and ban controls, player conflict resolution, competitive league management, and user community support.

Projects

  • Proposal for the Development of a Graphical BZW 2.0 Editor

    by Jude Nelson, mentored by David Trowbridge
  • Random level generator plugin for BZFlag

    by Kornel Kisielewicz, mentored by Daniel Remenak
  • Headless client w/ RoboCode & scripting (for AI)

    by Jørgen Pedersen Tjernø, mentored by Christopher Sean Morrison

Bazaar

Homepage: http://bazaar-vcs.org/
Preferred License: GNU GPL

Bazaar is a free decentralized revision control system. Bazaar is written in Python and runs on Unix, Windows and Mac OS. Bazaar is sponsored by Canonical Ltd, which also sponsors development of Ubuntu. Some Bazaar developers are employed by Canonical.

Projects

  • Bazaar Integration for Visual Studio

    by Klaus Hartke, mentored by Wouter van Heyst
  • The Bazaar Shell Extension

    by Alexander Haro, mentored by Jelmer Vernooij

Creative Commons

Homepage: http://creativecommons.org
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Creative Commons is a non-profit organization which provides free, flexible copyright licenses for creative works. Creative Commons' mission is two-fold: to provide tools for legally expressing a "some rights reserved" approach to copyright and to reduce the transaction cost of re-using works covered by copyright. Both portions of the mission are strongly supported by our technology, including machine-readable representations of the licenses.

Projects

  • OpenOffice.org Writer add-in for publishing CC licensed documents

    by Cassio de Albuquerque Melo, mentored by Nathan R. Yergler
  • Indexing Embedded License Claims in Tracker

    by Jason Kivlighn, mentored by Jon Phillips
  • RDF Tools in Scheme

    by Taylor R. Campbell, mentored by Jonathan Rees
  • Leeet – a web tool for rapid and intuitive authoring and querying of Semantic Web content and annotations.

    by Matthias Samwald, mentored by Alan Ruttenberg

CLAM (at Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

Homepage:
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

CLAM (C++ Library for Audio and Music) is a project that aims at developing a full-featured application framework for Audio and Music Applications. It offers a conceptual metamodel as well as many different tools for that particular domain. One of its most relevant features is the availability of a visual building dataflow application that allows to develop rapid prototypes without writing code. The project started 7 years ago and, among other highlights, it won the ACM award to the Best Open Source Multimedia Software in 2006. The framework just published its release 1.2. CLAM is coordinated and hosted at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain).

Projects

  • Real-time spectral transformations

    by Hernan Ordiales, mentored by Pau Arumí Albó
  • Plugin system for a dynamically extensible framework

    by Andreas Calvo Gómez, mentored by Pau Arumí Albó
  • Real-time synthesizer using SMS models

    by Gregory Ryan Kellum, mentored by Pau Arumí Albó
  • Clam for speech

    by Ebrahim "Abe" Kazemzadeh, mentored by Xavier Amatriain
  • Enhancing Annotator Widgets

    by Bennett Kolasinski, mentored by David García Garzón
  • Enhancing CLAM's chord detection algorithm for real-time use

    by Roman Goj, mentored by David García Garzón

Codehaus

Homepage:
Preferred License: Apache License, 2.0

The Codehaus is an open-source project repository with a strong emphasis on Java, focussed on quality components that meet real world needs. We believe in open source as a pragmatic approach to software development, and all our projects are business-friendly in terms of licensing. Enjoy your stay at the haus!

Projects

  • SwingXBuilder for Groovy

    by James Williams, mentored by Guillaume Laforge
  • JAXB2 implementation for Castor

    by Joachim Grueneis, mentored by Werner Guttmann
  • JAXB2 Support in Castor XML - Templating prototype

    by Matthias Epheser, mentored by Werner Guttmann

Homepage: http://coppermine-gallery.net/
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

We develop Coppermine Photo Gallery, which is an advanced, user-friendly, picture gallery script with built-in support for other multi-media/data files. Coppermine uses PHP, a MySQL database, and either the GD library (version 1.x or 2.x) or ImageMagick to generate and keep records and file information of all thumbnails, intermediate, and full-sized images. Coppermine was developed by Grégory Demar until he retired in 2003, when the current dev team inherited the project and registered it with SourceForge.

Projects

  • AJAX Support in Coppermine with an API

    by Nitin Gupta, mentored by Dr. Tarique Sani
  • Users can create albums in admin allowed categories (Big feature)

    by Sander Weyens, mentored by Thu Tu
  • JCpg: a Java based Cpg management and synchronisation application

    by Frank Cleynen, mentored by Aditya Mooley
  • by Daniel Roy Hammond, mentored by Joachim Mueller

coresystems GmbH

Homepage:
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

We're a young company into low-level open source software business. Founded 3 years ago with a rich background in Linux distributions, open source and embedded systems, and a lot of fun moving OSS ahead. We offer mentorship for coreboot (aka LinuxBIOS) projects. Coreboot is an Open Source firmware (BIOS) implementation that starts your computer in (almost) no time while leaving you the full control over your hardware. So if you have fun touching 'the real iron' with both hands, don't hesitate to apply now. If you are interested in LinuxBIOS and want to help, you don't need lowlevel or assembler know how to participate. Just suggest an idea or choose one from the list.

Projects

  • by Uwe Hermann, mentored by Stefan Reinauer
  • LBdistro - A LinuxBIOS Distro Maker

    by Alan Carvalho Assis, mentored by Stefan Reinauer
  • Booting Windows and other Operating Systems in LinuxBIOS

    by Augusto Pedroza, mentored by Stefan Reinauer
  • New: Winflashrom: Windows port of LinuxBIOS' flashrom utility

    by Darmawan Mappatutu Salihun, mentored by Stefan Reinauer
  • Open Firmware payload for LinuxBIOS

    by Jens Thomas Freimann, mentored by Stefan Reinauer
  • Adding LinuxBIOS support to Grub2 and making LinuxBIOS configuration easy

    by Patrick Georgi, mentored by Stefan Reinauer
  • (U)EFI payload for LinuxBIOS based on TianoCore

    by YI XIONG, mentored by Stefan Reinauer

Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility

Homepage: http://www.cpsr.org
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

CPSR is a progressive, global organization aimed at helping computer scientists, engineers and technologists promote the responsible use of computer technology. Founded in 1981, CPSR educates policymakers and the public on a wide range of issues, including electronic privacy, online civil liberties, access to technology in developing nations, voting technology, and green technology.

Projects

  • "Who Voted?": collecting and viewing election registers

    by Jeffrey Craig Gerard, mentored by Fyodor Vaskovich

Crystal Space

Homepage: http://www.crystalspace3d.org
Preferred License: GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

Crystal Space is an Open Source 3D Engine and Game Framework. It is very portable and runs on GNU/Linux, Windows, and MacOS/X.

Projects

  • World editor

    by Seth Yastrov, mentored by Frank Richter
  • COLLADA Conversion Library and Utility

    by Scott Johnson, mentored by Christoph Mewes
  • Artificial Intelligence Module

    by Mauricio Hollando, mentored by Jorrit Tyberghein
  • Framework for platform specific optimizations

    by Michael Gist, mentored by Marten Svanfeldt

Center for the Study of Complex Systems, Univ. of Michigan

Homepage: http://cscs.umich.edu
Preferred License: Apache License, 2.0

The Center for the Study of Complex Systems (CSCS) is a broadly interdisciplinary unit within the College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA) of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. CSCS's mission is to encourage and facilitate research and education in the general area of nonlinear, dynamical and adaptive systems. Participating faculty represent nearly every college of the University. The Center is based on the recognition that many different kinds of systems which include self-regulation, feedback or adaptation in their dynamics, may have a common underlying structure despite their apparent differences. Moreover, these deep structural similarities can be exploited to transfer methods of analysis and understanding from one field to another. In addition to developing deeper understandings of specific systems, interdisciplinary approaches should help elucidate the general structure and behavior of complex systems, and move us toward a deeper appreciation of the general nature of such systems.

Projects

  • GridSweeper Extension & Completion

    by Ed Baskerville, mentored by Rick Riolo
  • I-SPOC

    by Michael J Bommarito II, mentored by Scott E Page
  • Seeding the I-SPOC

    by Ryan Henderson, mentored by Scott E Page
  • I-SPOC: Initial Testing and Example SPOCs

    by Lucas Teague Cook, mentored by Scott E Page
  • I-SPOC

    by Terrence Charles Stewart, mentored by Rick Riolo
  • Urbance: An agent-based approach to Architectural Design

    by Dawn Thomas, mentored by Rick Riolo

Daisy CMS

Homepage: www.daisycms.org
Preferred License: Apache License, 2.0

Daisy is an open source, Java-based content management system with a two-tier architecture: a Wiki-like editing/management front-end, and a standalone repository server. One of its key features is the clear separation between back- and front-end, using an HTTP/XML-based ReST-like interface. Outerthought is the main organisation behind Daisy, and has been exploring various models behind effort-shared commons development for the past 4 years. About 300 subscribers participate with the actively-used Daisy mailing list. The Daisy community consists of individuals, companies and larger corporations.

Projects

  • HTML diff

    by Guy Van den Broeck, mentored by Bruno Dumon

Debian

Homepage: http://www.debian.org/
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run. Debian uses the Linux kernel (the core of an operating system), but most of the basic OS tools come from the GNU project; hence the name GNU/Linux.

Projects

  • Implementing Mole, infrastructure for managing information

    by Jeroen van Wolffelaar, mentored by Martin Michlmayr
  • Automated Upgrade Testing Using QEMU

    by Ian Haken, mentored by Lars Ivar Wirzenius
  • Piuparts improvements

    by Ana Beatriz Guerrero López, mentored by Luk Claes
  • BitTorrent Proxy for Debian Archive

    by Cameron Dale, mentored by Anthony Towns
  • Bug Triage and Forward Tool

    by Gustavo Rezende Montesino, mentored by Loïc Minier
  • Bug Submission and Manipulation Web-based User Interface for debbugs

    by Margarita Manterola Rivero, mentored by Stefano Zacchiroli
  • OVAL Agent for Debian

    by Pavel Vinogradov, mentored by Javier Fernandez-Sanguino
  • A modular lintian-like CD-image testing tool

    by Martín Hernán Ferrari, mentored by Steve McIntyre
  • GUI frontend for live-helper for building live Debian systems

    by Chris Lamb, mentored by Daniel Baumann

Detached Solutions

Homepage: http://www.detachedsolutions.com
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Detached Solutions is a group that serves as an umbrella for a number of different math and calculator related projects on handheld platforms. We specialize in projects coded for the TI series graphing calculators, but have branched out to other areas as well. We're interested in proposals to extend our current software, as well as new ideas. Among the open source projects we host are: 1) Graph3 - A 3D graphing program. This program was extended in GSoc 2006 to provide support for differential equation graphing. 2) usb8x - A USB host controller driver for the TI-84 Plus. It allows the calculator to connect to peripheral devices, such as mice, keyboards, hard drives, etc. 3) MirageOS - A popular shell/file manager for the TI-83 Plus and TI-84 Plus. It was originally closed source but has recently been released under the GPL. 4) Cabamap - A fast, arbitrary precision integer calculation library.

Projects

  • TI-83 Plus Logo Interpreter

    by Benjamin Moody, mentored by Marinus Johannes Warmer
  • Scheme Intepreter: Providing a functional language for the TI-83+ series calculators

    by Spencer Putt, mentored by Scott Dial
  • Hook Manager application for TI-83+/84+

    by Andrew Janata, mentored by Brandon Wilson

Django

Homepage: http://djangoproject.com/
Preferred License: BSD License

Django is a high-level Python Web framework originally developed at the Lawrence-Journal World. Django was designed to handle two challenges: the intensive deadlines of a newsroom and the stringent requirements of the experienced Web developers who wrote it. It lets you build high-performing, elegant Web applications quickly.

Projects

  • Generic views for RESTful web services

    by Andreas Stuhlmüller, mentored by Malcolm Tredinnick
  • Integrate package managment into Django and build a public repository website

    by Jannis Leidel, mentored by James Richard Bennett, Jr.
  • Implementing Check Constraints on Models

    by Thejaswi Puthraya, mentored by Simon Blanchard

Dojo Foundation

Homepage: http://www.dojotoolkit.org/
Preferred License: Apache License, 2.0

The Dojo Foundation promotes the adoption of Dojo and provides a healthy environment for JavaScript engineering of every stripe. Dojo is an Open Source DHTML toolkit written in JavaScript. It allows you to easily build dynamic capabilities into web pages and any other environment that supports JavaScript sanely. You can use the components that Dojo provides to make your web sites more useable, responsive, and functional. From humble beginnings in 2004, in November 2007 we released v1.0 after some major refactoring, and this has led to much wider interest and uptake. We take being professional seriously around issues like internationalization, accessibility, cross-browser support, licensing, and IP. Dojo has many active users - 10,000 registered in the last year, considerable corporate uptake (Sun, IBM, AOL, among many others) and a number of people are paid to work on Dojo, including many of our core committers.

Projects

  • Dojo.gfx 3D support

    by Kun Xi, mentored by Eugene Lazutkin
  • Dojo.data.overdrive

    by Hiran Shyanaka Ganegedara, mentored by Michael J Smith
  • Pseudo 3-D Charting

    by Neil Joshi, mentored by Eugene Lazutkin

Drupal

Homepage: http://drupal.org/
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Drupal is a web content management system and web application framework written in PHP. It is also a vibrant, growing, and fun community of programmers, activists and communicators. The core Drupal software is a framework to power community driven web site software, and includes features such as internationalization, tagging, and an extensive roles and permissions system. The highly extensible architecture supports well over a thousand sub-projects in the form of contributed modules and themes, so there's something here for everyone.

Projects

  • Tools for Drupal translation teams and users

    by Gábor Hojtsy, mentored by Gerhard Killesreiter
  • Project quality metrics system

    by Andrew Morton, mentored by Angela Byron
  • Implementation of Jabber/XMPP communications interface for Drupal

    by Maxim Khitrov, mentored by James Walker
  • RCS abstraction for the Project module

    by Jakob Petsovits, mentored by Andy Kirkham
  • New Drupal Core Theme

    by Klaas Van Waesberghe, mentored by Theodore Serbinski
  • Taxonomy Manager

    by Matthias Hutterer, mentored by Nicholas Thompson
  • Extend Case Tracker Module

    by Anthony Oliver, mentored by Jeff Eaton
  • Designing a new core theme for Drupal

    by Buddhika Amila Sampath, mentored by Theodore Serbinski
  • SVG Drawing support for Drupal

    by Balazs Dianiska, mentored by Simon Hobbs
  • RSS/Atom Aggregation for Drupal Modules and Install Profile

    by Aron Novak, mentored by Ken Rickard
  • Scalability, Load Balancing, and High Availability

    by Scott Hadfield, mentored by Khalid Baheyeldin
  • Ebay Integration Module

    by Jakob Perz, mentored by Gordon Heydon
  • by Blake Lucchesi, mentored by Robert T. Douglass
  • Drupal BitTorrent Tracker module

    by Christopher Patrick Bradford, mentored by Károly Négyesi
  • Private versus Public File Handling for Drupal

    by Kyle Cunningham, mentored by Darrel O'Pry
  • Drupal automated staging toolkit project proposal

    by Allister Beharry, mentored by Rok Žlender
  • SMS Framework

    by William L. White, mentored by Ian Ward
  • by Gartheeban Ganeshapillai, mentored by Kaustubh Srikanth

DSPACE FOUNDATION

Homepage: www.dspace.org
Preferred License: New BSD license

DSpace is an open source software platform that allows any organization to manage, preserve and provide open access to their digital works. The platform has a vibrant WW community of developers and is used by over 300 academic and cultural organizations to manage and provide access to their own creative works. The platform enables the sharing and reuse of these materials with the hope of advancing research and knowledge for all.

Projects

  • DSpace Content Integrity Service

    by Jiahui Wang, mentored by James Rutherford
  • Statistics

    by Federico Paparoni, mentored by Richard Jones
  • DSpace Versioning

    by Robert Graham, mentored by Mark Robert Diggory
  • Visualization Artifacts for Manakin/DSpace

    by Brian Eoff, mentored by Scott Phillips

The Eclipse Foundation

Homepage: http://www.eclipse.org
Preferred License: Eclipse Public License

Eclipse is an open source community with projects focused on building open development platforms with extensible frameworks, tools and runtimes to build, deploy and manage software across the lifecycle. A large and vibrant ecosystem of major technology vendors, innovative start-ups, universities, research institutions and individuals extend, complement and support the Eclipse platform.

Projects

  • Improve multi-monitor support

    by Benjamin Muskalla, mentored by Kimberly Horne
  • Plug-in Dependency Visualization

    by Robert Ian Bull, mentored by Chris Aniszczyk
  • Eclipse Web Interface

    by Michael Robb, mentored by Nick Boldt
  • An auto-configuration plugin for Eclipse

    by Ogechi Nnadi, mentored by Markus Alexander Kuppe
  • Provide an Eclipse IDE generation environment derived from a language grammar

    by Miguel Garcia, mentored by Ed Merks
  • Eclipse Interface for Online Marking Tool

    by Florian Shkurti, mentored by Jason Montojo
  • New Eclipse update manager

    by Prashant Deva, mentored by Andrew Overholt
  • Framework to develop simple Eclipse plugin using PHP

    by Toomas Römer, mentored by Ahti Kitsik
  • Improve Mylar's new users experiences

    by Balazs Brinkus, mentored by Mik
  • Java Executable Wrapper Plugin for Eclipse

    by Zhang Rui, mentored by Gunnar Wagenknecht
  • Test Message Generator for the Eclipse Open Health Framework

    by Srdan Bejakovic, mentored by Marcelo Paternostro
  • WebDAV EFS Implementation

    by Reid Holmes, mentored by Gunnar Wagenknecht
  • Mylar Plugin for DrProject

    by Xiaoyang Guan, mentored by Greg Wilson
  • Mylar synchronous context sharing, based on Mylar and ECF integration

    by Jevgeni Holodkov, mentored by Mik
  • VoIP via the ECF Call API and the Jingle Protocol

    by Moritz Post, mentored by Scott Lewis
  • Semantic-aware software component provisioning: actually reusing software

    by Savino Sguera, mentored by Philippe Ombredanne
  • Eclipse search plugin: providing a better, faster, more relevant Eclipse search.

    by Çağatay Çallı, mentored by Francois Granade
  • Add the ability to write plugins using jruby or groovy.

    by Anton Arhipov, mentored by Wayne Beaton
  • Integate and Connect your Clients

    by Li Ha, mentored by Wayne Beaton
  • Support seamless debugging between JDT and CDT (Java <> JNI <> C)

    by Mariot Chauvin, mentored by Philippe Ombredanne
  • NetBeans in Eclipse

    by Beyhan Osmanov Veliev, mentored by Philippe Ombredanne

The Electronic Frontier Foundation

Homepage: https://www.eff.org/
Preferred License: New BSD license

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), founded in 1990, works in the public interest to protect fundamental civil liberties in the digital age. The Internet and other communication technologies can herald the most liberating era of human history --- or the most regulated and controlled. The EFF works to defend our basic rights to free speech, privacy and free and open communications, and advocates for sane policies on digital copyright, software patents and electronic voting. EFF is a membership supported organization with 27 full-time staff. We are working closely with The Tor Project (torproject.org), a free- software non-profit project to build an anonymity toolkit used by individuals, companies, governments, and law enforcement around the world. The Tor network has grown since its start in 2002 to several hundred thousand active users pushing over 1Gbps of traffic. There are four full-time Tor developers, plus several dozen other volunteers who help out on a daily basis. This proposal is a combined submission from EFF and Tor.

Projects

  • Fixing Tor Server's Windows Buffer Problems

    by Christian King, mentored by Nick Mathewson
  • Application for fuzz testing the Tor-Network

    by Benedikt Boss, mentored by Roger Dingledine
  • Implementation and Evaluation of Path Selection Algorithms for Performance-Improved Onion Routing

    by Johannes Renner, mentored by Mike Perry
  • Distributed Storage for Tor Hidden Service Descriptors

    by Karsten Loesing, mentored by Roger Dingledine

Etherboot Project

Homepage: http://etherboot.org/
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Etherboot Project creates Open Source software that allows computers to be booted over a network. This is useful in a variety of applications such as schools, businessess, computing clusters, kiosks, and many other situations which benefit from centralized administration and maintainance of OS images.

Projects

  • Port gPXE to ARM architecture

    by Alexey Zaytsev, mentored by Michael Brown
  • 16-bit i386 backend for gcc

    by Daniel Verkamp, mentored by H Peter Anvin
  • porting Etherboot drivers to gPXE

    by Udayan Kumar, mentored by Martin Connor
  • Reducing Code Size

    by Holger Lubitz, mentored by Michael Brown

eXist

Homepage: http://www.exist-db.org
Preferred License: GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

eXist was founded in 2000 and has been continuously developed since, there are now about 12 core developers world wide and many others have contributed ideas and patches over the years. eXist is an Open Source native XML database featuring efficient, index-based XQuery processing, automatic indexing, extensions for full-text search, XUpdate support, XQuery update extensions and tight integration with existing XML development tools. The database implements the current W3C XQuery 1.0 recommendation. eXist provides a powerful environment for the development of databases and web applications based on XQuery and related standards. Entire web applications can be written in XQuery, using XSLT, XHTML, CSS, XForms and Javascript. XQuery server pages can be executed from the file-system or stored directly alongside documents in the database.

Projects

  • XQuery API for Java

    by Cherif YAYA, mentored by Adam Retter

FANN - The Fast Artificial Neural Network Library

Homepage: http://leenissen.dk/fann/
Preferred License: GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

The FANN library is a free open source neural network library. FANN implements multilayer artificial neural networks in C with support for both fully connected and sparsely connected networks. Cross-platform execution in fixed, floating point and double precision is supported. FANN includes a framework for easy handling of training data sets, is easy to use, versatile, well documented, and fast. PHP, C++, .NET, Ada, Python, Delphi, Octave, Ruby, Pure Data and Mathematica bindings are available. A reference manual accompanies the library with examples and recommendations on how to use the library. A graphical user interface is also available for the library. FANN was originally created by one person, but a vibrant community has evolved around the library and the FANN mailing list. The FANN community has enabled the creation of many enhancements to the library, including a graphical interface and bindings to a wide variety of other programming languages.

Projects

  • VFANN ( Vector Fast Artificial Neural Netwoks)

    by Vincenzo Di Massa, mentored by Seth J Price
  • Self-Organizing Maps and Growing Neural Gas

    by Zsolt Kira, mentored by Steffen Nissen
  • Discrete-Time Recurrent Networks

    by Daniel Wilhelm, mentored by Steffen Nissen
  • OpenOffice.org Spreadsheet Plugin

    by Andrzej Zawadzki, mentored by Seth J Price
  • Native GUI

    by Yusef Maali, mentored by Seth J Price
  • Neural Networks on the GPU

    by Lars Johan Samuelsson, mentored by Seth J Price

The Fedora Project & JBoss.org

Homepage: http://fedoraproject.org/
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

The Fedora Project develops and maintains the Fedora GNU/Linux distribution, one of the most successful free Linux distributions. The Fedora Project is managed by Red Hat and driven by a large community of users and developers. Its sister project, JBoss.org, is another project of Red Hat responsible for several leading open source Java projects, including JBossAS, Mobicents, JBossCache and JBossESB.

Projects

  • An upstream-friendly l10n Web UI for Fedora

    by Dimitris Glezos, mentored by Karsten Wade
  • An offline package update/installation facility for Pirut.

    by Debarshi Ray, mentored by Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
  • tcconf: A traffic shaping configuration utility for GNU/Linux

    by Christopher Tan, mentored by Steven Pritchard
  • Fedora Documentation Publishing Platform

    by Jonathan Steffan, mentored by Patrick W. Barnes
  • Publication of all man and info pages for each release through a web interface

    by Ria Das, mentored by Jeff Sheltren

FFmpeg

Homepage: http://ffmpeg.org/
Preferred License: GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

FFmpeg is the leading open source multimedia processing library. Nearly any open source program you use that can play a sequence of video images accompanied by sound is probably using FFmpeg to do so. It can decode the most prominent multimedia formats ever created, whether open or proprietary, and can encode to the most important formats as well. As a novelty, FFmpeg can also decode a vast array of impossibly obscure multimedia formats and remains essential for legacy multimedia files (no codec is too old or obscure for this project). Anecdotally, FFmpeg just might be the leading multimedia processing library in existence, as many proprietary applications use it as well (as permitted by the LGPL license). There are many stealth uses as well. YouTube does not advertise how their backend conversion software operates. However, independent, empirical research has demonstrated that YouTube uses FFmpeg to convert videos.

Projects

  • RV40 decoder

    by Kostyantin Sergiyovich Shishkov, mentored by Michael Melanson
  • Matroska Muxer for libavformat

    by David Robert Conrad, mentored by Aurelien Jacobs
  • Video Filter API

    by Robert Bingham, mentored by Benjamin Larsson
  • E-AC3 Decoder

    by Bartlomiej Wolowiec, mentored by Justin Ben Ruggles
  • The JPEG2000 deocder and encoder

    by Kamil Nowosad, mentored by Loren Merritt
  • Dirac encoder and decoder

    by Marco Gerards, mentored by Luca Ugo Maria Barbato
  • Applying for the soc programme of ffmpeg

    by Xiaohui Sun, mentored by Baptiste Coudurier
  • QCELP decoder

    by Reynaldo H. Verdejo Pinochet, mentored by Benjamin Larsson

Fityk

Homepage:
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Fityk is nonlinear curve-fitting and x-y data analysis software. It is written in C++. User interface uses wxWidgets library. Fityk community consists of one active developer and a number of contributors.

Projects

  • Improving Fityk GUI

    by Diaa Mahmoud Sami Abdel-Ghani, mentored by Marcin Wojdyr
  • X-Y Data Format Reading Library

    by ZHANG Peng (张鹏), mentored by Marcin Wojdyr

The FreeBSD Project

Homepage: http://www.FreeBSD.org
Preferred License: New BSD license

The FreeBSD Project is a large, mature, and yet relatively tightly nit organization. The FreeBSD Project began 15 years ago in 1993, but is based on the work at Berkeley CSRG with open source revision history going back 30 years to 1978. There are currently over 300 developers with write access to the main revision control system, and hundreds more with access to our Perforce servers for experimental and third party development (this is also where our summer of code students have worked in previous years). We have an active mentoring program to bring all new developers into our community, not just those that we introduce to FreeBSD through the GSoC. There are hundreds of mailing lists, blogs, irc channels, and user groups all detailed on our main website. FreeBSD offers a complete operating system in which students can work, not just a kernel or specific userland stack. This allows for interesting work that spans the userland/kernel boundary, and allows students to build up and package complete modified FreeBSD operating system CDs/DVDs to distribute as ISOs for testing, for example. Relevance to Google : Google has many tens of thousands of FreeBSD-based devices helping to run its production networks (Juniper, Force10, NetApp, etc..), MacOS X laptops, and the occasional FreeBSD network monitoring or test server. Research in FreeBSD security, networking, and other areas has also regularly been adopted recently and throughout its 30 year history to other open source systems. The most recent example from this month is perhaps the JEMalloc allocator which was introduced in FreeBSD 2 years ago and has recently been imported into the Firefox browser, also widely used at Google. This is an exciting time for FreeBSD as Cisco, Juniper, NetApp, Force10, and many other embedded networking device companies are moving towards FreeBSD (Cisco) or upgrading to more modern FreeBSD releases (6.0/7.0 for all the rest). We are also seeing these companies hire open source liaisons and making a concerted effort to contribute more code back.

Projects

  • GNOME front-end to freebsd-update(8)

    by Andrew Turner, mentored by Joe Marcus Clarke
  • Multicast DNS responder (BSD-licensed)

    by Fredrik Lindberg, mentored by Bruce M. Simpson
  • Revise ports / package system database backend and implement unified interface

    by Garrett Cooper, mentored by Kirill Ponomarew
  • Super Tunnel Daemon

    by Matus Harvan, mentored by Max Laier
  • Rewriting lockmgr(9)

    by Attilio Rao, mentored by Jeffrey Roberson
  • Apple's MacBook on FreeBSD

    by Rui Alexandre Cunha Paulo, mentored by Andre Oppermann
  • Security regression tests

    by Zhouyi ZHOU, mentored by Robert Nicholas Maxwell Watson
  • Getting gvinum up to standards

    by Ulf Lilleengen, mentored by Lukas Ertl
  • TCP/IP regression test suite

    by Nanjun, mentored by George Neville-Neil
  • Avoiding syscall overhead

    by Jesper Brix Rosenkilde, mentored by Jeffrey Roberson
  • Port OpenBSD's sysctl Hardware Sensors framework

    by Constantine A. Murenin, mentored by Shteryana Sotirova Shopova
  • Distributed audit daemon

    by Alexey Mikhailov, mentored by Bjoern Alexander Zeeb
  • Generic input device layer

    by Maxim Zhuravlev, mentored by Philip Paeps
  • bus_alloc_resources() Code Update for FreeBSD

    by Christopher Davis, mentored by Warner Losh
  • BSD bintools project (Part I)

    by Kai Wang, mentored by Joseph Koshy
  • Finishing update of Linuxulator to emulation of linux 2.6

    by Roman Divacky, mentored by Konstantin Belousov
  • FreeBSD "safety net" IO logging utility

    by Sonja Milicic, mentored by Lukas Ertl
  • Provide a audit log analysis tool for FreeBSD

    by Dongmei Liu, mentored by Robert Nicholas Maxwell Watson
  • Improve the FreeBSD Ports Collection Infrastructure

    by Gábor Kövesdán, mentored by Andrew Pantyukhin
  • http support for PXE

    by Alexey Tarasov, mentored by Ed Maste
  • Graphical installer for FreeBSD (finstall)

    by Ivan Voras, mentored by Murray Stokely
  • Porting Linux KVM to FreeBSD

    by Fabio Checconi, mentored by Luigi Rizzo

Freenet Project Inc

Homepage: http://freenetproject.org/
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Freenet: Freenet is free software which lets you publish and obtain information on the Internet without fear of censorship. To achieve this freedom, the network is entirely decentralized and publishers and consumers of information are anonymous. Without anonymity there can never be true freedom of speech, and without decentralization the network will be vulnerable to attack. FPI: The specific purpose of this corporation is to assist in developing and disseminating technological solutions to further the open and democratic distribution of information over the Internet or its successor electronic communication networks or organizations. It is also the purpose of this organization to guarantee consenting individuals the free, unmediated, and unimpeded reception and impartation of all intellectual, scientific, literary, social, artistic, creative, human rights, and cultural expressions, opinions and ideas without interference or limitation by or service to state, private, or special interests. It is also the purpose of this organization to educate the world community and be an advocate of these purposes.

Projects

  • Improving Search in FreeNet

    by Swati Goyal, mentored by Matthew John Toseland
  • A Blogging plugin for Freenet

    by Frédéric Rechtenstein, mentored by Jerome Flesch
  • Freenet Test Suite Creation

    by Alberto Bacchelli, mentored by Florent Daigniere
  • Different growth models for routing/congestion control

    by Vilhelm Verendel, mentored by Ian John Cecil Clarke
  • by Srivatsan Ravi, mentored by Florent Daigniere
  • C/C++ library to interface with FrenetFCPSpec2Point0

    by Mladen Kolar, mentored by Matthew John Toseland

Freevo

Homepage: http://www.freevo.org
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Home Theater Platform. Freevo contains different modules for controlling a PC with a remote on a TV. Unlike other projects Freevo tries to reuse existing other applications such as mplayer, xine and gstreamer for this task. The new API is designed to be very flexible, splitting the logic into several independent modules that can also be used by other projects. It contains a subproject kaa with the different modules and the GeeXboX project has joined the Freevo team to create a Live-CD based on Freevo 2.0.

Projects

  • DVB CAM support

    by Alessandro Decina, mentored by Zaheer Abbas Merali

The Free Software Initiative of Japan

Homepage: http://www.fsij.org/
Preferred License: GNU GPL basically, GNU Lesser GPL or the license of base software, if needed.

Non-profit organization which promotes Free Software Movement in Japan, and supports development and activities of Free Software.

Projects

  • STMlib: Multi-backend STM library for OCaml

    by Zheng Li, mentored by Yoriyuki Yamagata
  • Improve Eclipse plugin of OCaml

    by Soutaro Matsumoto, mentored by Yoriyuki Yamagata

Pidgin

Homepage: http://pidgin.im/
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Pidgin is an open-source, cross-platform, multi-protocol, instant messaging library (libpurple) and clients (Pidgin and Finch). It supports numerous IM protocols with a single unified interface, abstracting away the concept of multiple IM services.

Projects

  • Gaim/Pidgin MySpaceIM Protocol Plugin

    by Jeffrey Connelly, mentored by Sean Egan
  • Certificate Manager and Improved SSL Support

    by William Ehlhardt, mentored by Ethan Blanton
  • Telepathy support for Gaim

    by Will Thompson, mentored by Robert McQueen
  • Gaim-Text Improvements

    by Eric Polino, mentored by Sadrul Habib Chowdhury
  • Mono Loader (Part Duex)

    by Eoin Coffey, mentored by Gary Kramlich
  • Stabilize and improve MSN support in Gaim

    by Carlos António Vieira Silva, mentored by Mark Doliner
  • Virtual Classroom over Pidgin

    by Prekshu Ajmera, mentored by Richard Laager
  • Remote logging

    by Shkutkov Michael, mentored by Richard Laager

GCC

Homepage: http://gcc.gnu.org/
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

The GNU Compiler Collection includes the compilers used for all free operating systems for C, C++, Java, Fortran, and Ada.

Projects

  • Propagating array data dependence information from Tree-SSA to RTL

    by Alexander Monakov, mentored by Daniel Berlin
  • Fortran 2003 features for GCC

    by Janus Weil, mentored by Steven Bosscher
  • Open Mutliprogramming Interprocedural Analasis and Optimalizations

    by Jakub Staszak, mentored by Daniel Berlin
  • Integrating OpenJDK's javac bytecode compiler into gcj

    by Dalibor Topic, mentored by Mark J. Wielaard
  • New static scheduling heuristic for GCC.

    by Dmitry Zhurikhin, mentored by Vladimir Makarov

The gEDA Project

Homepage: http://geda.seul.org/
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

The gEDA Project is a confederation of roughly 25 developers who work on CAD tools (programs) used for electronic design. The tools are designed to work on Linux and other unices. Some of the tools share a link library, and some are stand-alone. In general, users invoke the programs individually from the unix command line (or a desktop icon). However, we are currently developing a "project manager" which will tie many of the tools into a common entry point. Amongst the tools in the project are: gschem -- a program used to draw schematic diagrams of circuits. pcb -- a program used to design PCBs (printed circuit boards). gerbv -- a program used to view and validate PCBs. Gnucap -- a program used to analyze and simulate analog circuits (equivalent to SPICE). Icarus Verilog -- a program used in design and analysis of logic circuits. gwave -- a program used to view the output of Gnucap, ngspice, and other circuit simulators. In all, the gEDA Project encompasses around 18 programs which may be used in electronic design. A full list of our tools may be found here: http://geda.seul.org/tools/index.html Our CAD tools are used by students, educators, hobbiests, small consultants, and even in engineering groups in larger companies.

Projects

  • SDF Parser/Annotor for Icarus Verilog VPI Plugin

    by yang ju, mentored by Stephen Williams
  • Usability enhancement in Gtkwave

    by Kermin Fleming, mentored by Anthony J Bybell

Geeklog

Homepage: http://www.geeklog.net/
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Geeklog is an open source CMS/weblog application, written in PHP and using MySQL or MS SQL as the database. The current core development group consists of five people, with a further 10-20 people contributing source code, plugins, and other add-ons on a regular basis. The community on www.geeklog.net hovers at around 150 active users, i.e. those that log into the site and participate in discussions. We also have some active international communities in Japan, Germany, Poland, and France. The Japanese community even published a book about Geeklog. While Geeklog may be one of the lesser known CMS, it does power a few high-profile sites, e.g. Groklaw. We also know that it is used quite a bit in company intranets and as a web application framework.

Projects

  • Installation Wizard for Geeklog

    by Matt West, mentored by Dirk Haun
  • Configuration GUI and DB Configuration Backend

    by Aaron Blankstein, mentored by Blaine Lang
  • Article plugin

    by Damien Hodgkin, mentored by Tony Bibbs
  • Web services API for Geeklog

    by Ramnath R Iyer, mentored by Dirk Haun

GenMAPP

Homepage: http://www.genmapp.org/
Preferred License: Apache License, 2.0

We are an academically based organization that develops and supports GenMAPP (Gene Map Annotator and Pathway Profiler), a visualization and analysis tool for biological data. GenMAPP illustrates the relationships between various genes and proteins to help researchers understand their data in terms of connected, biological pathways. Over 18,000 people from >70 countries have registered to download the GenMAPP program. There are over 360 publications that reference GenMAPP or use GenMAPP to display data in the context of biological pathways. GenMAPP is 100% open source. All new development is in Java, MySQL, Derby, XML, and Web technologies such as MediaWiki in collaboration with the UCSF library, BiGCaT Bioinformatics, and the Cytoscape Consortium. Our development team is composed of individuals who are both biologists and programmers, providing a unique perspective on building and using open source tools.

Projects

  • Enhanced search strategy in Cytoscape

    by Maital Ashkenazi, mentored by David States
  • Visual history of pathway modifications

    by Martijn van Iersel, mentored by Alexander Pico
  • Pathway Editor for WikiPathways.org

    by Thomas Kelder, mentored by Kristina Hanspers
  • Graph layout library for GenMapp

    by Nikolic Aleksandar, mentored by Michael Smoot

Gentoo

Homepage: http://www.gentoo.org
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Gentoo is a free operating system based on either Linux or FreeBSD that can be automatically optimized and customized for just about any application or need. Extreme configurability, performance and a top-notch user and developer community are all hallmarks of the Gentoo experience.

Projects

  • Collective Maintenance

    by Andrey Falko, mentored by Stephen Bennett
  • BaseGUI

    by Luis Francisco Araujo Camarillo, mentored by Alec warner
  • GNAP cross compile support

    by Philipp Riegger, mentored by Jose Alberto Suarez Lopez
  • archfs: Filesystem in userspace for rdiff-backup repositories

    by Filip Gruszczyński, mentored by Christel Dahlskjaer
  • Robust Cisco-like configuration interface for GNAP-powered embedded distros

    by Alexandros Stergiakis, mentored by Alexander Færøy
  • equizApp - system that helps Gentoo Recruiters and mentors create and manage quizzes for new recruits

    by Grzegorz Kulewski, mentored by Christel Dahlskjaer
  • SCIRE's job subsystem implementation for both the frontend and backend.

    by Rodrigo Eduardo Lazo Paz, mentored by Matt Disney
  • Python bindings for Paludis

    by Piotr Jaroszyński, mentored by Saleem Abdulrasool

The GGI Project

Homepage: http://www.ggi-project.org/
Preferred License: MIT license

The GGI project is a volunteer organization developing portable lowlevel graphics solution frameworks. It provides various libraries, of which the two most fundamental are LibGII (for input-handling) and LibGGI (for graphical output). We want to allow any program using GGI to run on any platform or any backend that can act as a display, requiring at most a recompile. Currently supported plateforms are Linux, Windows (MSYS/MingW, Cygwin), Darwin/MacOSX, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris. In addition to native display systems (DirectX, Quartz, X etc...), GGI offers a set of additonal backends that can be multiplexed (file, memory, vnc, ...). Our work is used in lots of noncommercial and commercial projects (see http://www.ggi-project.org/links.html for a short list).

Projects

  • OpenGL support for GGI

    by Raghavendra Narasimhan V, mentored by Christoph Egger
  • Improve XGGI by implementing some X extensions.

    by Vikram Kumar, mentored by Christoph Egger

Git Development Community

Homepage: http://git.or.cz/
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

As Git approaches its third anniversary, it is now the revision control system of choice for many of the largest and most successful open source projects, including the Linux kernel and at least eight other Google Summer of Code 2007 projects: ikiwiki, One Laptop Per Child, Samba, Thousand Parsec, The Wine Project, VideoLAN, XMMS2, and X.org. This achievement is the product of the lively Git development community, a loose-knit team of developers, technical writers, and end users with a passion for high quality open-source development.

Projects

  • GIT library project

    by Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino, mentored by Shawn Pearce
  • Replace most core scripts with C versions.

    by Carlos Rica Espinosa, mentored by Johannes Schindelin

GNOME

Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

The GNOME project provides two things: The GNOME desktop environment, an intuitive and attractive desktop for users, and the GNOME development platform, an extensive framework for building applications that integrate into the rest of the desktop.

Projects

  • New geometry manager for GTK+

    by Mathias Hasselmann, mentored by Federico Mena-Quintero
  • Evolution Data Server Backend for google calendar

    by Ebby Wiselyn, mentored by Harish Krishnaswamy
  • GStreamer plugins and extensions for multimedia content creation applications

    by Sebastian Dröge, mentored by Stefan Kost
  • Brave New X11 World

    by Pascal Schoenhardt, mentored by Christian Kellner
  • Extending the lockdown framework in GNOME and making it even more deployment friendly

    by Sayamindu Dasgupta, mentored by Federico Mena-Quintero
  • Photobooth-like application for the GNOME-Desktop

    by Daniel Siegel, mentored by Raphael Slinckx
  • PiTiVi, an Open Source Video Editor

    by Brandon J Lewis, mentored by Edward Hervey
  • Integrating Epiphany Bookmarks and Browsing History For GNOME-wide Access

    by Imran Patel, mentored by Xan López Saborido
  • Evolution

    by Tobias Mueller, mentored by Sven Herzberg
  • Creating a new documentation editor for Project Mallard

    by Buddhika Laknath Semage, mentored by Donald Scorgie
  • Simple user-to-user file transfer without configuration in a LAN

    by Marco Barisione, mentored by Sjoerd Simons
  • Implement PDF Annotations support in Evince

    by Iñigo Martínez Criado, mentored by Carlos García Campos
  • Changing metacity into a window-and-pointer-manager

    by Paulo Ricardo Zanoni, mentored by Elijah Newren
  • Jokosher VoIP Integration

    by Michael Sheldon, mentored by Benjamin Thorp
  • gnome-bluetooth and bluez-gnome improvements and unification

    by Tadas Dailyda, mentored by Marcel Holtmann
  • Enhance Mango to allow self-service of GNOME account data and streamline GNOME account setup

    by Barış Çiçek, mentored by Raphael Slinckx
  • Plug my desktop - Fixing input device hotplugging

    by Nicolas Trangez, mentored by Christian Kellner
  • art.gnome.org 3

    by Bruno Miguel Fachada dos Santos, mentored by Thomas Wood
  • Cross-Application Scripting

    by Ori Bernstein, mentored by Hubert Figuiere
  • VoIP and video call client using Telepathy

    by Elliot Fairweather, mentored by Robert McQueen
  • Gnome Scan NG

    by Étienne Bersac, mentored by Vincent Untz
  • WYSIWYG Documentation Editor for GNOME (Foie Gras)

    by Szilveszter Farkas, mentored by Shaun McCance
  • Refactoring Deskbar-Applet

    by Sebastian Poelsterl, mentored by Raphael Slinckx
  • Face detection and tagging feature for F-Spot

    by Andrzej Wytyczak-Partyka, mentored by Lawrence Ewing
  • Voice recognition applet to control desktop

    by Raphael Nunes da Motta, mentored by Nickolay Shmyrev

GNU Project

Homepage: http://www.gnu.org
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

The GNU Project was launched in 1984 to develop a complete Unix-like operating system which is entirely free software: the GNU system.

Projects

  • GRUB2 CD-ROM Boot Support

    by Alexandru Roman, mentored by Jeroen Dekkers
  • findutils: updatedb (rewrite), xargs (ARG_MAX), find (extended attributes)

    by Leslie P. Polzer, mentored by James Youngman
  • User defined out of date decission for GNU make and persistent variables.

    by Ramon Garcia Fernandez, mentored by Paul Smith
  • Mailutils: Add TLS capability to IMAP and POP client code.

    by Wojciech Polak, mentored by Sergey Poznyakoff
  • Gnome/GStreamer Desktop sound integration for Java

    by Mario Torre, mentored by Mark J. Wielaard
  • GNU Hurd libchannel

    by Fredrik Hammar, mentored by Richard Braun
  • Generics support in Portable.NET

    by Ivan de Jesus Deras Tabora, mentored by Klaus Treichel
  • Graphical navigation/representation of knowledge base; and interfacing with other knowledge systems.

    by Rakesh Pandit, mentored by Nagarjuna Gadiraju
  • SyncML interface for phpGroupWare

    by Johan Gunnarsson, mentored by Dave Hall

GnuCash

Homepage:
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

GnuCash is an Open Source Financial Application that provides Personal and Business Accounting. Some would say that GnuCash is a Quicken or Quickbooks replacement, but that's not completely accurate. We're a loose group of developers run mostly like a meritocracy. Patches are welcome from anyone, but commit access to the mainline sources are limited to the core developers. New developers are asked to prove themselves either by sending in patches or by working on a development branch. Most of our conversations take place either in IRC or on the mailing lists.

Projects

  • Delimited File Importer

    by Benjamin Leonard Sperisen, mentored by Joshua Sled
  • Dogtail UI Test Harness

    by Ahmed Sayed Hassan, mentored by Joshua Sled

GNUstep

Homepage: www.gnustep.org
Preferred License: GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

GNUstep is a cross-platform, object-oriented framework for desktop application development. GNUstep enables developers to rapidly build sophisticated software by employing a large library of reusable software components.

Projects

  • Key Value Observing and Bindings implementation

    by Christopher Farber, mentored by Nicola Pero
  • Improving GNUstep AppKit components and the Text System

    by Christopher Elsmore, mentored by David Chisnall

Google

Homepage: http://www.google.com/
Preferred License: Apache License, 2.0

Projects

  • Sockets for Google Web Toolkit

    by Aleksey Lagoshin, mentored by Dan Morrill
  • phpAspect eclipse plugin

    by William Candillon, mentored by Vanwormhoudt
  • GWT for Gadgets/Widgets

    by Tomasz N. Kolodziejczyk, mentored by Kelly Norton
  • Java API Compatibility Validator

    by Aleksandar Pantaleev, mentored by Miguel Mendez

Haiku

Homepage: http://www.haiku-os.org
Preferred License: MIT license

We are a project dedicated to the creation of a new open source operating system designed from the ground up for desktop computing called Haiku. Inspired by the BeOS, Haiku aims to provide users of all levels with a personal computing experience that is simple yet powerful, and free of any unnecessary complexities. Haiku is supported by Haiku Inc., a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization founded with the purpose of promoting our project.

Projects

  • Network stack revamp: IPv6, ICMP, multicast, etc.

    by Hugo Santos, mentored by Axel Dörfler
  • Create a thread scheduler with CPU affinity

    by André Braga, mentored by Axel Dörfler
  • USB isochronous streams

    by salvatore benedetto, mentored by Oliver Ruiz Dorantes
  • FireWire stack for Haiku

    by JiSheng Zhang, mentored by Jerome Duval
  • Network Preferences Application

    by Andre Alves Garzia, mentored by Stehan Aßmus
  • Package (.pkg) installer for the Haiku Operating System

    by Łukasz Zemczak, mentored by Ryan Leavengood
  • Implement a precache algorithm along with aging policy for the file system caches

    by Krishna Kishore Annapureddy, mentored by François Revol

Handhelds.org

Homepage:
Preferred License: We generally use the GPL. But we are willing to work with the author if they think that license does not meet their needs. We host code that has MIT and LGPL licenses as well.

We encourage, facilitate and make creation of free software for use on handheld and wearable computers. We welcome participation and sponsorship by individuals, groups and companies seeking to further this goal.

Projects

  • Finishing linux 2.6 for h5000 devices

    by Milan Plžík, mentored by Anton Vorontsov Vladimirovich
  • Developing reusable handheld machine emulations for QEMU

    by Maria Zabolotnaya, mentored by Paul Sokolovsky

haskell.org

Homepage: http://haskell.org
Preferred License: New BSD license

Haskell.org is the community focus for explaining, supporting, and promoting the open-source programming language Haskell. Haskell is an advanced purely functional programming language. The product of more than twenty years of cutting edge research, it allows rapid development of robust, concise, correct software. With strong support for integration with other languages, built-in concurrency, debuggers, profilers, rich libraries and an active community, Haskell makes it easier to produce flexible, maintainable high-quality software.

Projects

  • Darcs Conflict Handling

    by Jason Dagit, mentored by David Roundy
  • Hackage Web Interface, Doc-Browser

    by Sascha Böhme, mentored by Ross Paterson
  • Rewrite the typechecker for YHC and nhc98

    by Mathieu Boespflug, mentored by Malcolm Wallace
  • Cabal Configurations

    by Thomas Schilling, mentored by Michael Isaac Jones
  • Update the Hat tracer

    by Kenn Knowles, mentored by Malcolm Wallace
  • Generalizing Parsec to ParsecT and arbitrary input (ByteStrings)

    by Paolo Martini, mentored by Philippa Jane Cowderoy
  • Shared Libraries for GHC

    by Clemens Fruhwirth, mentored by Simon Marlow
  • HTTP Library Replacement

    by Mieczysław Bąk, mentored by Bryan O'Sullivan
  • Extending GuiHaskell: An IDE for Haskell Hackers

    by Asumu Takikawa, mentored by Neil Mitchell

IEM - Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics, Graz

Homepage: http://iem.at/
Preferred License: New BSD license

The Institute of Electronic Music (IEM) is part of University of Music and Dramatic Arts and concentrates itself in three areas: Research and Development, Art Production and Education. Our research activities are concentrated mainly in digital signal processing, audio engineering, and psycho acoustics, eg. projects in analysis and syntheses of sound and loudness perception. An additional project is the publication series 'Contributions to Electronic Music'. IEM provides technology and know-how to composers and musicians in the creation and realization of their works. Since 1990, IEM has collaborated with guest artists in the production and performance of more than 80 new compositions. In this process, many international partnerships have been established. At IEM, compositions students are trained in musical acoustics, sound synthesis, algorithmic composition, and real-time systems. We have also established an audio engineering curriculum in collaboration with the Technical University in Graz. The most important aspects of our courses is to bring technology and artistic creativity closer together.

Projects

  • VideoIO

    by Thomas Holzmann, mentored by IOhannes m zmölnig
  • FTM Library for PureData

    by Tommaso Bianco, mentored by Winfried Ritsch

ikiwiki

Homepage: http://ikiwiki.info
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

The ikiwiki project aims to develop a general-purpose wiki engine, with particular emphasis on personal wikis, project wikis, blogs, and collaborative software development. We provide several features unique or uncommon amongst wikis: * Rather than inventing yet another simplistic, linear revision control system, ikiwiki uses a standard version control system such as Subversion or Git. You can edit a wiki by committing to your repository, as well as through a traditional web interface. This makes ikiwiki ideal for collaborative software development; just keep your wiki in version control next to your software. You can also take advantage of the features of these systems; for instance, you can keep a local branch of your wiki via Git. * You can turn any set of pages into an inline news feed, complete with RSS and Atom support. You can run your weblog on ikiwiki (and many people do), run a Planet-like aggregator for external feeds, or keep a TODO and bug list with tags for completed items. * ikiwiki provides a wiki compiler, designed to transform your wiki content into a set of static pages. You can then serve these pages as static content. ikiwiki will not fall over during a Slashdotting, because page views don't require the ikiwiki CGI; as long as Apache can keep up, your site will survive. Furthermore, you can choose whether you want to run the ikiwiki CGI for web edits or only handle commits to the underlying version control system; you can even run ikiwiki privately and just manually copy the content to another server. So if you want to put a wiki up on a server without installing any software on that server, try ikiwiki.

Projects

  • latex plugin input/output for ikiwiki

    by Patrick Winnertz, mentored by Joey Hess
  • by Ben Coffey, mentored by Alexander Wirt
  • Wiki WYSIWYG Editor

    by Taylor Killian, mentored by Joey Hess
  • by Arpit Jain, mentored by Alexander Wirt

Inkscape

Homepage: http://www.inkscape.org
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

The Inkscape project develops the inkscape SVG editor, one of the best open source drawing programs available for Linux, OSX, Windows, and other platforms.

Projects

  • Text Improvements

    by Gail Carmichael, mentored by Richard Hughes
  • Native PDF import capability based on libpoppler

    by Miklós Bálint Erdélyi, mentored by bulia byak
  • Live path effects in Inkscape

    by Johan Engelen, mentored by Aaron Spike
  • 3D box tool for Inkscape

    by Maximilian Albert, mentored by bulia byak
  • UI for SVG Filter Effects

    by Nicholas Bishop, mentored by MenTaLguY
  • Raster Functionality in Inkscape

    by Christopher Brown, mentored by Theodore J. Gould
  • Importing from, and Exporting to, a remote ccHost instance

    by Bruno Luis Goncalves Dilly, mentored by Bryce Harrington

Internet2

Homepage: http://www.internet2.edu/
Preferred License: New BSD license

Internet2 is the foremost U.S. advanced networking consortium. Led by the research and education community since 1996, Internet2 promotes the missions of its members by providing both leading-edge network capabilities and unique partnership opportunities that together facilitate the development, deployment and use of revolutionary Internet technologies.

Projects

  • Network Diagnostic Tool Enhancements

    by Jakub Sławiński, mentored by Richard Carlson
  • Chrolog Application(second try)

    by Horia Vlad Balan, mentored by Aaron Brown
  • Phoebus Protocol Enhancements

    by Andrew Lake, mentored by Martin Swany
  • Defining network metrics on a qualitive perspective

    by Fausto Vetter, mentored by Jason Zurawski

Jikes RVM

Homepage:
Preferred License: Common Public License 1.0

Jikes RVM (Research Virtual Machine) provides a flexible open testbed to prototype virtual machine technologies and experiment with a large variety of design alternatives. It differs from other JVM projects in that it is written in Java whilst having a full adaptive optimization framework. It is a vehicle for testing a wide range of ideas including compiler research, memory management research, Java operating systems, computer architecture, and aspect oriented programming to name a few. Over 150 research papers have been published which use Jikes RVM.

Projects

  • JMX Implementation

    by Andrew John Hughes, mentored by Peter Donald
  • Adding JDWP and JVMTI support

    by Eslam Ahmed Almorshdy, mentored by Ian Rogers
  • Graph Coloring Register Allocator

    by Alexey Gorodilov, mentored by Ian Rogers
  • MC2 Algorithm

    by Sowjanya Karumuri, mentored by John Eliot Blakeslee Moss
  • Vectorization

    by jisheng zhao, mentored by Ian Rogers

Joomla

Homepage: www.joomla.org
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

We are an open source web based content management system.

Projects

  • Extending the Nested Sets Model with "Hardlinked Nested Sets"

    by Enno Klasing, mentored by Louis Benton Landry
  • Email Interface for Publishing

    by Nur Aini Rakhmawati, mentored by Mateusz Krzeszowiec
  • Semantic Web Integration

    by Charl van Niekerk, mentored by Robert Schley
  • Geo-component for Joomla!

    by Mickael Maison, mentored by Andrew Eddie
  • Eclipse Plugin for develop Joomla's Component/Module

    by Muhammad Fuad Dwi Rizki, mentored by Laurens Vandeput
  • General content recommendation component for Joomla

    by Faolan Cheslack-Postava, mentored by Samuel Alexander Moffatt

K-3D

Homepage: http://www.k-3d.org
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

K-3D has produced free-as-in-freedom 3D CGI tools designed to scale to the needs of professionals for nearly 15 years.

Projects

  • Quadrilateral Remeshing

    by Ian South-Dickinson, mentored by Timothy M. Shead

KDE

Homepage: http://www.kde.org
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

KDE is an international technology team that creates integrated Free/Open Source Software for desktop and portable computing. Among KDE's products are a modern desktop system for Linux and UNIX platforms, comprehensive office productivity and groupware suites and hundreds of software titles in many categories including Internet and web applications, multimedia, entertainment, educational, graphics and software development. Building on the cross-platform capabilities of Trolltech®'s Qt®, KDE4's full-featured applications run natively on Linux, BSD, Solaris, Windows and Mac OS X.

Projects

  • CMake support for KDevelop

    by Aleix Pol Gonzalez, mentored by Matt Rogers
  • Kalzium 3D Molecular Editor

    by Marcus D. Hanwell, mentored by Benoit Jacob
  • Painterly features for Krita

    by Emanuele Tamponi, mentored by Bart Coppens
  • Code-Completion and Navigation for KDevelop-4

    by David Nolden, mentored by Roberto Raggi
  • KRDC (KDE Remote Desktop Connection) - UI Redesign and overall revamp

    by Urs Wolfer, mentored by Bradley John Hards
  • Kontact Journal/Blog Support

    by Mike Arthur, mentored by Cornelius Schumacher
  • SQL Code Generation and Enhanced Entity Relationship Models for Umbrello

    by Shivasharan Rao, mentored by Jonathan Riddell
  • KAider, computer-aided translation system

    by Mykola Shaforostov, mentored by Adriaan de Groot
  • Improve OpenDocument compatibility in KWord

    by Pierre Ducroquet, mentored by Sebastian Sauer
  • Implement OpenUsability's Context Sensitive Help Redesign

    by Joshua Keel, mentored by Ellen Reitmayr
  • Strigi: chemistry and biology support

    by Alexandr Goncearenco, mentored by Egon Lennert Willighagen
  • GPS support for Marble virtual globe widget

    by Andrew Manson, mentored by Inge Wallin
  • Amarok: Model/View implementation and usability improvements for playlist

    by Ian Monroe, mentored by Seb Ruiz
  • New selection visualisations for Krita

    by Sven Langkamp, mentored by Casper Boemann
  • Kopete messenger plugin update

    by Panyong Zhang, mentored by Matt Rogers
  • Step: interactive physical simulator for education

    by Vladimir Kuznetsov, mentored by Carsten Niehaus
  • KWin -- Improved Xinerama Support

    by Frederick Emmott, mentored by Lubos Lunak
  • Amarok Web Services Integration

    by Leonardo Franchi, mentored by Seb Ruiz
  • Text-tool plugins for KOffice apps

    by Fredy Yanardi, mentored by Tomas Mecir
  • Generic models/views for all Akonadi-based applications

    by Bruno Virlet, mentored by Volker Krause
  • 2D projection for Marble

    by Carlos Manuel Licea Vázquez, mentored by Torsten Rahn
  • Marble KML support and creating KPart.

    by Murad Tagirov, mentored by Torsten Rahn
  • Enhance KPilot record based syncing

    by A. H. J. Broeksema, mentored by Jason Kasper
  • Bluetooth Presence Manager (BtPM) and KDEBluetooth KDE4 port

    by Juan González Aguilera, mentored by Daniel Gollub
  • Python Support for KDevelop4

    by Piyush Verma, mentored by Andreas Pakulat
  • Making KOrganizer look more like a paper-based calendar: theming improvements

    by Loïc Corbasson, mentored by Cornelius Schumacher
  • Music Notation support for KOffice

    by Marijn Kruisselbrink, mentored by Boudewijn Rempt
  • KDEPrint -- add support for LinuxPrinting's on-line drivers query

    by Gavin Beatty, mentored by Cristian Tibirna
  • Bridge the gap between KitchenSync and OpenSync

    by Anirudh Ramesh, mentored by Tobias Koenig
  • Java backend for Kross

    by Vincent Verhoeven, mentored by Sebastian Sauer
  • Improving the X RandrR extension support in KDE

    by Gustavo Pichorim Boiko, mentored by Lubos Lunak
  • Icon cache for KDE

    by Rivo Laks, mentored by Aaron Seigo

Lanka Software Foundation

Homepage: http://opensource.lk/
Preferred License: GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

Lanka Software Foundation (LSF) is a non-profit umbrella organization for many outstanding free/open source projects globally. Some of the high profile projects it incubated are, Sahana, disaster management system [http://sahana.lk/] and Axis project [http://ws.apache.org/axis/] which is now part of the Apache Foundation.

Projects

  • Sahana Disaster data import through arbitrary spreadsheets, relational databases

    by Joseph Priyanga Fonseka, mentored by Chamindra de Silva
  • Optical Character Recognition for Sahana Data Entry

    by Omega Silva, mentored by Ravindra De Silva
  • Extending KBFX the next generation Desktop resource launcher for K Desktop environment (KDE).

    by Lahiru Lakmal Priyadarshana, mentored by Siraj Razick
  • Sahana GPS Interface

    by Selvamanickam Sriganeshan, mentored by Mifan Careem
  • Complete AJAX library for Sahana

    by Ishan Udyana Liyanage, mentored by Ravindra De Silva
  • Sahana Meta data based dynamic report generation (tables, charts and Sahana Meta data based dynamic report generation (tables, charts and Sahana Meta data based dynamic report generation (tables, charts and maps)

    by Agnieszka Kulikowska, mentored by Mifan Careem
  • Effective Localization for Sahana

    by Leevanage Pium Prabath Kumarasinghe, mentored by Isuru Samaraweera
  • Bassa, A Policy Based, User Driven, Content Caching/Sharing and Distribution System.

    by Wathawana Vithanage Wathsala, mentored by Chamindra de Silva
  • Fund Management Module for SAHANA

    by K H D Kumarasiri, mentored by Isuru Samaraweera
  • Google Summer of Code Application.

    by Dinishika Nuwangi Weerarathna, mentored by Darmendra Pradeeper

Liblime

Homepage: http://www.liblime.com/
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

LibLime's mission is to make open-source software accessible to libraries. To that end, LibLime develops and promotes affordable and customizable open-source library solutions, such as Koha and Evergreen. LibLime also provides a full range of services on these applications including: migration assistance, staff training, and software maintenance, support, and development.

Projects

  • Develop Cataloging Application

    by Chris Catalfo, mentored by Joshua Ferraro

LispNYC

Homepage: http://lispnyc.org/
Preferred License: GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

Lisp NYC is a group devoted to the advocacy and advancement of professional software developers in their adoption of Lisp-based and functional programming technologies such as Common Lisp, Scheme, Arc, Clojure, etc. We accomplish this through targeted programs of education and outreach well as regular monthly meetings, email lists, development projects spirited conversation with NY metro area Lisp professionals.

Projects

  • IOLib

    by Luís Manuel Borges de Oliveira, mentored by Robert Edward Brown
  • CL-ObjC. A bridge between Common Lisp and Objective-C

    by Luigi Panzeri, mentored by Edward Marco Baringer
  • Purely Functional Data Structures in Common Lisp

    by Andrew Longfellow Baine, mentored by Rahul Jain
  • Music interchange format support for Gsharp

    by Brian Gruber, mentored by Christophe Rhodes
  • NXTLisp - a Common Lisp library for the NXT Mindstorms platform

    by Milan Cermak, mentored by Frank Klassner

LLVM Compiler Infrastructure

Homepage: http://www.llvm.org
Preferred License: University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License

LLVM is an open source compiler infrastructure project, providing aggressive static compilation as well as JIT code generation. LLVM supports optimization and code generation for many architectures.

Projects

  • LLVM Mips Backend

    by Bruno Cardoso Lopes, mentored by Chris Lattner
  • Using LLVM as a backend for QEMU's dynamic binary translator

    by Tilmann Scheller, mentored by Paul Brook

Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University

Homepage: http://lurie.northwestern.edu/home/index.cfm
Preferred License: Apache License, 2.0

First established at Northwestern University in 1974, the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center is committed to being a national leader in the battle to overcome cancer. To this end, the Cancer Center is dedicated to scientific discovery, advancing medical knowledge, providing compassionate, state-of-the-art cancer care, and training the next generation of clinicians and scientists. The Bioinformatics Core Facility at the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center is focused on collaboration and publication with Cancer Center members. The Core Facility consists of five faculty-level bioinformaticists with experienced and diverse computer programmers. The Core develops state of the art algorithms for pathway analysis, microarray analysis, and proteomics. Good software development practices are used for bioinformatics and computational analysis of DNAs, proteins, clinical trials and clinical informatics. We offer student interns with a broader choice of projects and a general perspective of information technology in science and healthcare; previous curriculum in biology is not necessary for the projects.

Projects

  • Proteomics and Metabolomics Data Processing System:

    by Jared Flatow, mentored by Pan Du
  • Adding GC-MS and LC-MS metabolomics support to MassSpecWavelet

    by Michael Lawrence, mentored by Pan Du
  • Google Gateway to Genomics Literature

    by Adrian Schoenig, mentored by Warren A Kibbe
  • GeneQuad summary for GeneRIF using N-Gram Markov Model and other techniques

    by Daniel Lelis Baggio, mentored by Pan Du
  • Blue Sky Project - Bridging the Gaps Between Statistics, Biology and E-commerce

    by Renee McElhaney, mentored by Warren A Kibbe
  • Learning a Context Free Grammar by reading Corpus in a given language

    by Siddharth Angrish, mentored by Simon Lin

MacPorts

Homepage: http://www.macports.org/
Preferred License: Apache License, 2.0

MacPorts is a ports collection and packaging system for Mac OS X. We have about 4500 active ports, many of which accept multiple variants. MacPorts is one of the primary means by which open source software is compiled for and installed onto Mac OS X, and is thus a primary interface between Mac OS and the rest of the open source world.

Projects

  • Automate and beautify creation of universal binaries for ports that need to be built more than once and then run lipo on

    by Elias Pipping, mentored by Markus Weissmann
  • Port isolation while building

    by Eugene Pimenov, mentored by Paul Guyot
  • New Repository Backend

    by Chris Pickel, mentored by Paul Guyot

maemo

Homepage: http://maemo.org
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Maemo provides an open source development platform for Nokia Internet Tablets and other Linux-based devices. It is build from components widely used in open desktop and mobile/embedded systems: the Linux kernel, Xserver, DBus, GTK+, Gstreamer, Telepathy, GnomeVFS... We develop the Hildon Application Framework in order to integrate functionality and user interface to the maemo platform. We also provide a Software Development Kit containing the tools needed to create and port applications, replicating the Internet Tablet environment in a PC.

Projects

  • GeoClue for Maemo

    by Jussi Kukkonen, mentored by Henri Bergius
  • Japanese/Chinese handwriting recognition on Maemo

    by Mathieu BLONDEL, mentored by Makoto Sugano

MetaBrainz Foundation Inc.

Homepage: http://metabrainz.org
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

The MetaBrainz Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit headquartered in San Luis Obispo, CA that operates the MusicBrainz project. MusicBrainz is an open source/open data project to collect vast quantities of data about music and make it available to the public.

Projects

  • Working on implementing simplified NGS

    by Erik Dalén, mentored by Lukas Lalinsky

Mixxx

Homepage: http://www.mixxx.org
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Mixxx is a cross-platform, open source DJ mixing application suitable for amateur and live professional use. Mixxx began as one of the earliest digital DJ solutions, and as a result has attracted a large worldwide userbase. Our continuing mission is to provide these users with an open source DJ application with features that rival and lead proprietary commercial solutions such as Traktor, MixVibes, and Virtual DJ.

Projects

  • library/playlist interface improvement

    by Nathan Prado, mentored by Adam Davison
  • Improved BPM detection

    by Micah Lee, mentored by Albert Santoni
  • LADSPA Support in Mixxx

    by Paweł Bartkiewicz, mentored by Albert Santoni

MoinMoin Wiki Project

Homepage: http://moinmo.in/
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

The MoinMoin project is developing a popular wiki engine in Python. Wikis are getting more and more important for the communication infrastructure of OSS groups all over the world. Especially groups like Apache, Ubuntu, Python, Debian, Fedora, Xen, KernelNewbies, linuxwiki.org (de), etc. are using MoinMoin to keep the contact going with their users and developers and for documentation. We have some few long-time core developers, some more casual developers and quite many developers contributing plugin code. Additionally, many people work on the wikis improving documentation and translating it to about 40 languages.

Projects

  • Refactor the storage engine of MoinMoin to support different Backends

    by Heinrich Wendel, mentored by Thomas Waldmann
  • Interactive Wiki Maintenance with Jabber/XMPP

    by Karol Nowak, mentored by Alexander Schremmer
  • Automatic classification of wiki pages and extending security system.

    by Marian Neagul, mentored by Reimar Bauer

Mono Project

Homepage: http://www.mono-project.com
Preferred License: MIT license

We implement the open source implementation of C# and the CLI runtime (ECMA 334 and 335) as well as other libraries both for server and client applications.

Projects

  • Windows.Forms.Designer

    by Ivan Zlatev, mentored by Miguel de Icaza
  • FastCGI ASP.NET Server

    by Brian Nickel, mentored by Marek Habersack
  • WYSIWYG Editor for Monodoc and MonoDevelop

    by Hector Enrique Gomez Morales, mentored by Mike Kestner
  • Gendarme project development

    by Lukasz Knop, mentored by Sebastien Pouliot
  • Unit Testing Code Coverage Prioritization Using CodeRank

    by Christopher J Parnin, mentored by Sebastien Pouliot
  • MonoDevelop Database Improvements

    by Ben Motmans, mentored by Miguel de Icaza
  • On WCF, NetPeerTcpBinding and PeerResolvers

    by Marcos Cobeña Morián, mentored by Atsushi Enomoto
  • Ribbons Widget

    by Laurent Debacker, mentored by Mike Kestner
  • .NET Framework 3.0 WPF controls

    by George Giolfan, mentored by Miguel de Icaza
  • MonoTorrent Gtk# GUI

    by Jared Hendry, mentored by Alan McGovern
  • Gendarme Tasks

    by Nestor Salceda Alonso, mentored by Sebastien Pouliot
  • Adding C/C++ support in MonoDevelop

    by Marcos David Marín Amador, mentored by Michael James Hutchinson
  • Banshee - Porting Banshee to Windows

    by Scott Peterson, mentored by Aaron Bockover
  • Gendarme: The problem finder

    by Nidhi Rawal, mentored by Sebastien Pouliot

Moodle

Homepage: http://moodle.org
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Moodle is working to develop the very best tool for online learning. Our software is a Learning Management System written in PHP, designed to help teachers facilitate communities of learners in a variety of interesting ways. Moodle is widely used around the world by universities, schools, companies, and all manner of organizations and individuals who need to conduct education online. Many of our users take part in the community on moodle.org and contribute with ideas, debate, testing, education, documentation, bug fixing, feature writing and everything else that makes an open source project function.

Projects

  • User Management Improvements

    by Bautu Andrei, mentored by Yu Zhang
  • Extending and Improving Quiz Questions

    by Adriane Boyd, mentored by Tim Hunt
  • Command line installer and upgrader for Moodle

    by Dilan Anuruddha K, mentored by Penny Leach
  • Epaile: Automated Grading for Computer Programming Assignments

    by Arkaitz Garro Elgueta, mentored by Nicolas Connault
  • Messaging improvements

    by Luis Filipe Romão Rodrigues, mentored by Martin Dougiamas
  • Moodle – Social Networking Features

    by Luiz Cruz, mentored by Martin Dougiamas
  • Moodle Voice

    by Mayank Jain, mentored by David Jesús Horat Flotats
  • Moodle Email Interface

    by Peter Boswood, mentored by Martin Alejandro Langhoff

The Mozilla Project

Homepage: http://www.mozilla.org/
Preferred License: Mozilla Public License 1.1 (MPL)

The mission of the Mozilla Project is to preserve choice and innovation on the Internet. We are the producer and provider of the award-winning Firefox web browser and Thunderbird e-mail software. We are an advocate for open standards on the Net, and provide tools for developing standard web content. We also provide software development tools used by hundreds of free software projects worldwide.

Projects

  • Enable Roaming Support in Thunderbird

    by Nick Kreeger, mentored by David Bienvenu
  • Implementing cross-session download resume

    by Srirang G Doddihal, mentored by Dan Mosedale
  • by Edward Lee, mentored by Gervase Markham
  • JPEG2000 Support for Firefox

    by Benjamin Karel, mentored by Stuart Parmenter
  • Microsummary Generator Web Service and Application Improvements

    by Ryan Flint, mentored by Michael D. Melez
  • Camino : Tabosé

    by Jeff Dlouhy, mentored by Stuart Morgan
  • by Damitha Pahan Fernando, mentored by Scott MacGregor
  • Make SeaMonkey Not Suck As A News Reader

    by Markus Hossner, mentored by Karsten Düsterloh
  • Firefox automation & Tinderbox integration

    by HARISHANKARAN K, mentored by Nagappan

MySQL

Homepage: http://www.mysql.com/
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

MySQL develops and markets a family of high performance, affordable database servers and tools. Our mission is to make superior data management available and affordable for all. We contribute to building the mission-critical, high-volume systems and products worldwide. MySQL is a key part of LAMP, which is a fast growing open source enterprise software stack. MySQL is used in a lot of Web 2.0 related companies, including Google!

Projects

  • a performance analysis and anomaly detection tool for database engine

    by Jin Chen, mentored by Paul McCullagh
  • MySQL Load Testing, aka. How hard can I really push this?

    by Charles Cahoon, mentored by Giuseppe Maxia
  • Title: MySQLXplorer: Enabling Keyword Search in MySQL Applications

    by Mayssam Sayyadian, mentored by James A. Starkey
  • Exploring MySQL's SQL optimizer

    by Katsikaros Vangelis, mentored by Timour Katchaounov
  • MySQL Auditing Software

    by Warren Kenny, mentored by Sheeri Kritzer
  • MySQL Auditing Software

    by Umair Imam, mentored by Sheeri Kritzer
  • MyWebER

    by Andrew Uvarov, mentored by Colin Charles
  • IPv6 network support

    by Milos Prodanovic, mentored by Brian Aker

NESCent - National Evolutionary Synthesis Center

Homepage: http://nescent.org/
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

NESCent facilitates synthetic research on grand challenge questions in evolutionary biology and also works to address critical needs in software infrastructure and education through promoting open, collaborative development of interoperable and standards-supporting open-source software. The Center is located in Durham, North Carolina, is jointly operated by Duke University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and North Carolina State University, and receives its core funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Together with developers from open-source life-science programming toolkits (BioPerl, Biojava, Biopython, Bioruby, BioSQL; collectively referred to as the Bio* projects), evolutionary software packages, and recently developers of comparative phylogenetic methods NESCent has so far run two Hackathons, which continue to have significant and lasting impacts on the landscape of collaborative software development in our field. The Center is committed to FLOSS and sharing of scientific data (see for example the NESCent Data and Software Policy at http://www.nescent.org/informatics/data_software_policy.php); all software products of the Center are released as open source and established as collaborative projects on sites such as SourceForge. Members of the Center's Informatics team are lead developers in several open-source projects, and one of our organization administrators has been active on the Board of the Open Bioinformatics Foundation (http://open-bio.org/), the umbrella organization for the Bio* projects, since seven years.

Projects

  • A PERL based Command Line Interface to a Topological Query Application for BioSQL in Support of High Throughput Classification and Analysis of LTR Retrotransposons in Plant Genomes

    by James Estill, mentored by Hilmar Lapp
  • Software development fostering the integration of molecular and paleobiological data in the estimation of species divergence times

    by Michael D. Nowak, mentored by Derrick Zwickl
  • Ajax interface for the XRate command-line tool

    by Lars Barquist, mentored by Ian Holmes
  • BioJava APIs for Phyloinformatics

    by Bohyun Lee, mentored by Richard Holland
  • Multi-language bindings to the C++ NEXUS Class Library

    by Carlos David Suarez-Pascal, mentored by Mark Holder
  • Phylogenetic XML <--> Object serialization

    by Jason Caravas, mentored by Rutger Aldo Vos
  • Phylogenetic & haplotype displays for GBrowse

    by Hisanaga Okada, mentored by Lincoln Stein
  • Developing user-oriented, standards-based phylogenomics tools: PhyloSOAP and PhyloWidget

    by Gregory Jordan, mentored by William H. Piel
  • Visualizing Phylogeographic Information

    by Yi-Hsin Erica Tsai, mentored by David Kidd
  • Implementing a web interface for command line-based bioinformatics tools.

    by James Leung, mentored by Suzanna Lewis
  • Biodiversity conservation algorithms and GUI

    by Klaas Hartmann, mentored by Tobias Thierer

The NetBSD Project

Homepage: http://www.NetBSD.org
Preferred License: New BSD license

NetBSD is a free, secure, and highly portable Unix-like Open Source operating system available for many platforms, from 64-bit Opteron machines and desktop systems to handheld and embedded devices. Its clean design and advanced features make it excellent in both production and research environments, and it is user-supported with complete source. Many applications are easily available through pkgsrc, the NetBSD Packages Collection.

Projects

  • Automated testing framework

    by Julio Manuel Merino Vidal, mentored by Martin Husemann
  • Porting ZFS

    by Oliver Gould, mentored by Dieter Baron
  • Running Kernel File Systems in Userspace

    by Antti Kantee, mentored by William Stouder-Studenmund
  • Improving the pkgsrc build system

    by Jörg Sonnenberger, mentored by Johnny Lam
  • Hardware monitoring and HAL port

    by Jáchym Holeček, mentored by Quentin Garnier

Neuros Technology

Homepage:
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Neuros is a manufacturer of open multimedia devices that is fully committed to the use of open source software and methods for its products. All the source code is released as open source, mostly under the GPL license, and community involvement is a key component both in the design of the devices (with schematics for the hardware freely available) and in the development of software (with regular flow of patches from the community being included in the official repository). The current focus (and focus for SoC) is on the Neuros OSD and OSD 2, an open internet set-top box/media center/recorder. The Neuros OSD can consolidate all a users physical media into a single box (dvds, vhs tapes, home movies) and in the future will be able to do the same with all the downloadable and streaming video as well. The open Neuros OSD platform is an alternative to the closed, walled garden systems distributed by cable and satellite operators.

Projects

  • Project Lobster enhancements

    by Steven Robertson, mentored by Ugo Riboni
  • UPnP implementatino for Neuros OSD device

    by Pau Minoves Rafanell, mentored by Ugo Riboni
  • ARM/DSP bridge

    by Christiaan Baaij, mentored by Adam Torgerson
  • Apple iPod integration for Neuros OSD

    by Leif Johnson, mentored by Thomas Bruno

Nmap Security Scanner

Homepage: http://nmap.org
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Nmap ("Network Mapper") is a free and open source utility for network exploration or security auditing. Many systems and network administrators also find it useful for tasks such as network inventory, managing service upgrade schedules, and monitoring host or service uptime. Nmap uses raw IP packets in novel ways to determine what hosts are available on the network, what services (application name and version) those hosts are offering, what operating systems (and OS versions) they are running, what type of packet filters/firewalls are in use, and dozens of other characteristics. It was designed to rapidly scan large networks, but works fine against single hosts. Nmap runs on all major computer operating systems, and both console and graphical versions are available.

Projects

  • Feature Creeper/Bug Wrangler

    by David Fifield, mentored by Fyodor Vaskovich
  • Nmap Scripting Engine -- Infrastructure

    by Stoiko Ivanov, mentored by Diman Todorov
  • Feature Creeper and Bug Wrangler

    by Doug Hoyte, mentored by Fyodor Vaskovich
  • Feature Creeper / Bug Wrangler

    by Kris Katterjohn, mentored by Fyodor Vaskovich
  • Feature Creeper/Bug Wrangler

    by Edward Bell, mentored by Fyodor Vaskovich

OGRE

Homepage: http://www.ogre3d.org
Preferred License: GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

OGRE is a leading open-source real-time 3D graphics engine used for games, simulations, architectural and medical visualisation, or anything else that needs sweet, sweet 3D visuals in an open source package. Supports Windows, Linux and OS X (as well as extensions to other platforms) and multiple render systems.

Projects

  • Custom Memory Heaps and Object Allocators

    by Timothy John Kelsey, mentored by Steven Streeting
  • Emulating Lesser Hardware Capabilities

    by Juozas Gaigalas, mentored by Daniel Wickert
  • Advanced Script Compilers

    by Brian Johnstone, mentored by Andres Carrera
  • Ogre Material Editor

    by Brian Hudson, mentored by Casey Borders

One Laptop per Child

Homepage: http://wiki.laptop.org/
Preferred License: Apache License, 2.0

The mission of the One Laptop per Child association is to develop a low-cost laptop and surrounding tools, materials, and communities, to transform education. We have a special focus on children and classes in rural parts of the developing world.

Projects

  • Game Development Infrastructure

    by Lincoln Quirk, mentored by Kent J Quirk
  • Easy Game Toolkit

    by Patrick DeJarnette, mentored by Kent J Quirk
  • Secure Transparent Instant Representative Mesh Elections (S·T·I·R·M·E)

    by Ignacio Vergara Kausel, mentored by Chris Ball
  • Implementing a PyGame toolkit for 2D games

    by Roberto Faga Jr, mentored by Samuel Klein

OpenOffice.org

Homepage: http://www.openoffice.org
Preferred License: GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

The OpenOffice.org Project is an international community of volunteers and sponsors including founding sponsor and primary contributor, Sun Microsystems. OpenOffice.org develops, supports, and promotes the open-source office productivity suite, OpenOffice.org®. OpenOffice.org supports the Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) OASIS Standard and is available on major computing platforms in over 65 languages.

Projects

  • Improve the current notes implementation in OpenOffice.org Writer

    by Maximilian Odendahl, mentored by Mathias Bauer
  • Integration of R into Calc

    by Wojciech Gryc, mentored by Niklas Nebel
  • AODL library / ODF toolkit

    by Oleg Yegorov, mentored by Dieter Loeschky
  • Improve UI Design and Layout

    by Ricardo Pereira de Magalhães Cruz, mentored by Michael Meeks
  • new Application for Status bar control to display/change the language

    by Lili Sun, mentored by Thomas Lange
  • Impress: OpenGL rendered transitions

    by Shane Michael Mathews, mentored by Thorsten Behrens
  • Complete User Interface respecting Aqua Human Interface Guidelines (Aqua Only)

    by Ismael MERZAQ, mentored by Bachard Eric
  • Mac OS X Address book integration (Aqua / X11)

    by Omer Bar-or, mentored by Sebastien PLISSON

OpenICC

Homepage: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/OpenIcc
Preferred License: New BSD license

OpenIcc consist of the members of the so named email list. It was started by Scribus members to better support introduction of colour management into applications and discuss general issues. List contributors are application and CMS developers as well as colour management specialists and users, no matter whether commercial, open source and both together.

Projects

  • High Dynamic Range Tone Mapping

    by Shaine Joseph, mentored by Cyrille Berger
  • LProf - Add support for the HTC profiling target & other reference file installer enhancements.

    by Joseph Simon III, mentored by Hal V. Engel

OpenMoko Inc.

Homepage: http://www.openmoko.com
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

OpenMoko Inc. is a vendor working on open, hackable mobile phones featuring a completely open source software stack on the CPU. OpenMoko targets power users and developers to create exciting new applications bringing forwards Mark Weiser's vision of Ubiquitous Computing.

Projects

  • OpenMoko Music Player core application development

    by Soeren Apel, mentored by Michael Lauer
  • WebKit/Gdk/cairo port and GUI for OpenMoko

    by Holger Hans Peter Freyther, mentored by Michael Lauer

OpenMRS

Homepage: http://openmrs.org
Preferred License: Mozilla Public License 1.1 (MPL)

Our world continues to be ravaged by a pandemic of epic proportions, as over 40 million people are infected with or dying from HIV/AIDS -- most (up to 95%) are in developing countries. Prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS on this scale requires efficient information management, which is critical as HIV/AIDS care must increasingly be entrusted to less skilled providers. Whether for lack of time, developers, or money, most HIV/AIDS programs in developing countries manage their information with simple spreadsheets or small, poorly designed databases...if anything at all. To help them, we need to find a way not only to improve management tools, but also to reduce unnecessary, duplicative efforts. As a response to these challenges, OpenMRS formed in 2004 as a open source medical record system framework for developing countries -- a tide which rises all ships. OpenMRS is a multi-institution, nonprofit collaborative led by Regenstrief Institute, Inc. (http://regenstrief.org), a world-renowned leader in medical informatics research, and Partners In Health (http://pih.org), a Boston-based philanthropic organization with a focus on improving the lives of underprivileged people worldwide through health care service and advocacy. These teams nurture a growing worldwide network of individuals and organizations all focused on creating medical record systems and a corresponding implementation network to allow system development self reliance within resource constrained environments. To date, OpenMRS has been implemented in several developing countries, including South Africa, Kenya, Rwanda, Lesotho, Uganda, Tanzania, Haiti, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, and Kerala. This work is supported in part by organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO), the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the Rockefeller Foundation, the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).

Projects

  • Clinical Data Visualization Tool

    by Hugo Rodrigues, mentored by Darius Graham Jazayeri
  • Clinical Data Visualization Tools

    by Sashikanth Raju S Damaraju, mentored by Paul Biondich
  • Open Data Access Adapter and RESTful Web Service Module

    by Michael Rudd Zwolinski, mentored by Justin Miranda
  • Logic Service Project

    by Vladimir Mitrovic, mentored by Burke Mamlin
  • Patient Matching, Record Linkage, and Data Aggregation Techniques

    by Sarp Centel, mentored by Shaun Grannis
  • Mobile Data Collection Tools

    by Matthias Nüßler, mentored by Simon Kelly
  • Drug Order Entry Tools

    by Desmond Elliott, mentored by Hamish S F Fraser
  • Data Warehouse and Reporting Framework Integration

    by Gjergji Strakosha, mentored by Justin Miranda
  • XML-based data exchange with the DHIS software – expanding the use of OpenMRS data

    by Anders Bjarne Skjelten Gjendem, mentored by Maros Cunderlik

OpenSolaris

Homepage: http://www.opensolaris.org/
Preferred License: Common Development and Distribution License

The OpenSolaris project is an open source project which was initially based on the source code for the Solaris operating system. It is a community development effort, providing a forum to collaborate and improve operating system technology. The community has grown from its original roots in Sun Microsystems to be part of a much wider community, incorporating a wider set of interests and ideas, to where it is today, a diverse community of people from many different backgrounds, right across the world contributing to the project. The governance constitution details the OpenSolaris community organizational structure as a whole, http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/cab/governance/, loosely described as a set of community groups growing up around a set of projects and technologies, each formed by various participants, contributors and core contributors (or members), working under the guidance of the OpenSolaris Governing Board. The community has well over 20,000 officially registered participants, spread over 40+ community groups, and 50+ user groups worldwide. OpenSolaris also has several distributions derived from the base operating system, including Nexenta, Belenix, and Solaris Express. The number of people contributing code is still relatively small due to some infrastructural barriers in moving the source code management system out behind Sun walls. We have made significant progress in this over the last year, and the beta program for a fully read/write Mercurial repository available is nearing the end.

Projects

  • i18n Emancipation Project

    by John Sonnenschein, mentored by Garrett D'Amore
  • Porting Fast Fourier Transform Tools

    by Raymond T Harper, mentored by Rob Giltrap

Open Source Applications Foundation

Homepage: http://chandlerproject.org/
Preferred License: Apache License, 2.0

OSAF is a non-profit organization working on Chandler Project, a personal information manager designed for small group collaboration. Chandler consists of a Desktop application, a Server and the Chandler Hub Sharing Service.

Projects

  • Natural Language Processing with Chandler

    by Phil Jones, mentored by Jeffrey Harris
  • Progress Reports Management

    by Vera Sheinman, mentored by Jeffrey Harris

OSCAR

Homepage: http://oscar.openclustergroup.org
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

OSCAR allows users, regardless of their experience level with a *nix environment, to install a Beowulf type high performance computing cluster. It also contains everything needed to administer and program this type of HPC cluster. OSCAR's flexible package management system has a rich set of pre-packaged applications and utilities which means you can get up and running without laboriously installing and configuring complex cluster administration and communication packages. It also lets administrators create customized packages for any kind of distributed application or utility, and to distribute those packages from an online package repository, either on or off site.

Projects

  • Cluster Virtualization with Xen

    by Kulathep Charoenpornwattana, mentored by Geoffroy R. Vallee
  • OSCAR Bench

    by James Elliott, mentored by Michael Edwards
  • Improving HA-OSCAR

    by Narate Taerat, mentored by Box Leangsuksun
  • OSCAR LVS and HA Integration

    by Ma Yuan, mentored by Michael Edwards
  • Globus/Condor Package for OSCAR

    by AMIT VYAS, mentored by DongInn Kim

OSGeo - Open Source Geospatial Foundation

Homepage: http://www.osgeo.org/
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

OSGeo is an incorporated not-for-profit organization serving as an umbrella organization for the Open Source Geospatial community in general, and 14 projects in particular.

Projects

  • GRASS Modules for line generalization and smoothing

    by Daniel Bundala, mentored by Wolf Bergenheim
  • GDAL2Tiles - Utility for easy tile-based publishing of raster maps and KML SuperOverlay

    by Petr Pridal, mentored by Howard Butler
  • Plugins for multidimensional raster data sources.

    by Daniele Romagnoli, mentored by Simone Giannecchini
  • Caching data in uDig

    by Christophe ROUSSON, mentored by Ian Turton
  • JTileCache

    by Christopher Whitney, mentored by Justin Deoliveira
  • Shortest path in free (vector) space avoiding obstacles module in GRASS

    by Maximilian Maldacker, mentored by Wolf Bergenheim
  • GDAL: KML read support for the existing driver

    by Jens Oberender, mentored by Mateusz Loskot
  • New Transformation Algorithms for GeoTools and uDig

    by Jan Jezek, mentored by Jesse Eichar
  • Coverage model and operations for PostGIS

    by Xing Lin, mentored by Timothy H. Keitt
  • GeoServer Style Editor

    by Anthony Manfredi, mentored by Tim Schaub
  • Implementation of An Interactive GeoRSS tool in uDig

    by Rui Li, mentored by Richard Gould
  • 3D Rendering Pipeline for GeoTools

    by Hans Häggström, mentored by Jody Garnett
  • OGC WMS GDAL driver

    by Adam Nowacki, mentored by Daniel Morissette

Oregon State University Open Source Lab (OSU OSL)

Homepage: http://osuosl.org
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

The Open Source Lab at Oregon State University exists to help accelerate the adoption of open source software across the globe and aid the community that develops and uses it. The OSL's talented team of students and full-time staff do this by focusing on a twofold strategy of software development and hosting some of the world's largest open source projects.

Projects

  • Drupal/Google API Integration

    by Silas Snider, mentored by Justin Gallardo
  • Help with OLPC project

    by Darko Ilic, mentored by Bradley William Morgan
  • Drupal / Google API Integration

    by Robert H Wohleb III, mentored by Gregory A. Lund-Chaix
  • Firefox kiosk extension

    by Seth Lemons, mentored by Eric Searcy

Open Security Foundation (OSVDB)

Homepage: http://www.osvdb.org/
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

OSVDB is an independent and open source database created by and for the security community. The goal of the project is to provide accurate, detailed, current, and unbiased technical information on security vulnerabilities. More information about the project can be found at http://osvdb.org/about

Projects

  • Vulnerability Notification Service

    by Sergios Pericleous, mentored by Kelly Todd
  • Researcher Confidence Project

    by Timothy F. Tutt Jr., mentored by Brian Martin
  • Report Generator

    by Willis Vandevanter, mentored by Chris Sullo

Plan 9 from Bell Labs

Homepage: http://gsoc.cat-v.org
Preferred License: MIT license

Plan 9 from Bell Labs started as a distributed operating system, intended to succeed Unix at Bell Labs, in the mid 80's. Since then, four Editions have been released, the last of which is Open Source. Over time Plan 9 has attracted the interest and contributions of a growing community of researchers and enthusiasts from around the world.

Projects

  • Improving Inferno SPKI Authentication

    by Katie Reynolds, mentored by Charles Forsyth
  • Port QEMU to Plan 9

    by Nathaniel Filardo, mentored by David Arthur Eckhardt
  • Inferno Port to the Nintendo DS

    by Noah Evans, mentored by Charles Forsyth
  • A simple venti, vac and vac with manber/rabin fingerprinting block splitting (or a fossil) in limbo.

    by Mechiel Lukkien, mentored by Charles Forsyth
  • 9P filesystem for OpenBSD

    by Iruatã M. S. Souza, mentored by Tim Wiess
  • Porting Plan9 to OLPC laptop

    by Ameya Palande, mentored by Uriel Mangado
  • Port KenCC to UNIX (*BSD, Linux)

    by Kris Maglione, mentored by Bruce Ellis
  • Alternative Implementations of 9P: PHP and JavaScript

    by Anant Narayanan, mentored by Maht Lawless

hugin/panotools

Homepage: http://www.panotools.org
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Our organization is a composite of several open source/free software projects: hugin, panotools and enblend/enfuse. We are used to collaborate across timezones and cultures.

Projects

  • New extensible modular GUI framework for Panorama Photography

    by Ippei UKAI, mentored by Yuval Levy
  • Anti-ghosting HDR panorama blending and merging algorithm

    by Jing Jin, mentored by Pablo d'Angelo
  • Interactive Panoramic Viewer

    by Leon Armando Moctezuma de Uriarte, mentored by Aldo Hoeben
  • Feature matching for panoramic images

    by Zoran Mesec, mentored by Herbert Bay

Thousand Parsec

Homepage: http://www.thousandparsec.net/
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Thousand Parsec is a framework for turn based space empire building games. Thousand Parsec includes everything you need to play running games, set up your own games and build your own space empire games. Some examples of games which Thousand Parsec draws ideas from are Reach for the Stars, Stars!, VGA Planets, Master of Orion and Galactic Civilizations. These games are often called 4X strategy games, from the main phases found in the games, eXplore, eXpand, eXploit and eXterminate.

Projects

  • Reach for the Stars clone

    by Tyler Shaub, mentored by Charles Lee Begg
  • Ruleset Development Environment

    by James Gardner, mentored by Brett Nash

PHP

Homepage: http://php.net
Preferred License: PHP License

Devoted to developing PHP.

Projects

  • Livedocs: The promised land

    by Hannes Magnusson, mentored by Michael Wallner
  • Cycle Collection in PHP

    by Yiduo Wang, mentored by Fredericus G Rethans
  • Debugger Frontend for Xdebug

    by Adam Harvey, mentored by Fredericus G Rethans
  • Doctrine ORM Framework

    by Konsta Vesterinen, mentored by Lukas Smith
  • Mutation Testing for PHPUnit

    by Mike Lewis, mentored by Sebastian Bergmann
  • Foreign Keys: another improvement to PEAR::MDB2_Schema

    by Igor Feghali, mentored by Helgi Þormar Þorbjörnsson
  • Refactory of Jaws internals

    by Nicolas Bérard Nault, mentored by David Coallier

PlanetMath

Homepage: http://planetmath.org
Preferred License: For various components, GNU FDL, Creative Commons licenses, MIT-style licenses

Collaborative mathematics community, featuring a wiki-like 'encyclopedia', forums, and other projects.

Projects

  • Towards Estimating Authority of Users in PlanetMath.org

    by Pawel Jurczyk, mentored by Aaron Krowne
  • Modularizing the Classification and Document Handling of NNexus

    by James Gardner, mentored by Aaron Krowne

Plone Foundation

Homepage: http://www.plone.org
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

The Plone Foundation will celebrate its fourth birthday around the time students start coding for this year's SoC. It exists to promote Plone, an open source Content Management System based on Zope 2. Plone has existed since 1999 when the project was founded by Alexander Limi, Alan Runyan and Vidar Andersen. The foundation is adminstered by the foundation board which is elected by the foundation membership. Foundation membership represents exceptional contribution to the community and is subject to approval of an application, so far over 100 have been accepted. The community has had an annual conference since 2003 which has taken place in New Orleans, Vienna (twice), Seattle and Naples. The Naples conference was attended by approximately 350 members of the community; a similar figure to the previous conference in Seattle. Local user groups exist in many cities, some organising symposia; one such event is currently underway. In addition, over 800 projects are versioned in our community SVN repository, the collective and there are more than 1000 showcase websites and almost 250 companies specialising in Plone development listed on Plone.net.

Projects

  • New transformation and indexing infrastructure for Plone

    by Hanno Schlichting, mentored by Martin Aspeli
  • Improved out-of-the-box WebDAV experience

    by Sidnei da Silva, mentored by Alexander Limi
  • Development of Quills into Flexible Weblog Solution for Plone

    by Timothy Matthew Hicks, mentored by Raphael Ritz
  • LinguaPlone

    by Ramon Navarro Bosch, mentored by Martijn Pieters
  • Plone Syndication

    by Derek Richardson, mentored by Florian Schulze
  • OpenDocument import, indexing, preview

    by Joscha Krutzki, mentored by Lennart Regebro
  • Genesis: Next Generation of ArchGenXML

    by Viðar Svansson, mentored by Reinout van Rees

PostgreSQL project

Homepage: www.postgresql.org
Preferred License: New BSD license

PostgreSQL is the most advanced open source database management system, with a set of features extending far beyond SQL and ACID transactions to pluggable procedural languages, XML, custom aggregates and more. PostgreSQL scales to thousands of users and terabytes of data. It is written entirely in well-documented C, with some optional components in other languages. PostgreSQL is also unincorporated global development community which works on the PostgreSQL object-relational database and tools related to it. We are community-owned and not the product of any one company. Our developers and mentors consist mostly of hardcore database hackers, including corporate programmers, academics and independent database enthusiasts. All development of PostgreSQL is done online on public mailing lists and public CVS.

Projects

  • Column-level privilege implementation for PostgreSQL

    by Guodong Liu (刘国栋), mentored by Andrew Dunstan
  • Implementing support for read-only queries on PITR slaves

    by Florian G. Pflug, mentored by Simon Riggs
  • Autovacuum Scheduling

    by German Poo-Caamano, mentored by Alvaro HERRERA Muñoz
  • Integrity check algorithm for data files

    by Robert Mach, mentored by Zdenek Kotala
  • [pgUnitTest] Query and stored procedure unit tests for PostgreSQL

    by Mickael Deloison, mentored by Mark Wong
  • Full Text Search support in PostgreSQL GUI Tools

    by Ivan Zolotukhin, mentored by Oleg Bartunov

Python Software Foundation

Homepage: http://python.org/
Preferred License: Apache License, 2.0

The Python Software Foundation (PSF) is a non-profit membership organization devoted to advancing open source technology related to the Python programming language. The mission of the Python Software Foundation is to promote, protect, and advance the Python programming language, and to support and facilitate the growth of the international community of Python programmers.

Projects

  • pymachine, a python package for machine learning.

    by David Cournapeau, mentored by Kenneth Jarrod Millman
  • Corrected Title: Proposal to clean up urllib. CodingProjectIdeas/StandardLibrary/CleanupUrlLibProject

    by O. R . Senthil Kumaran, mentored by George D. Montanaro
  • SymPy: Multivariate Polynomial Equations and Gröbner Bases

    by Robert Schwarz, mentored by Fabian Seoane
  • Web.py: 'teh Communicator'

    by Drew Newberry, mentored by Aaron Swartz
  • Documenting Python Packages with Docutils

    by Lea Wiemann, mentored by David John Goodger
  • Updating Twisted Conch

    by Paul Swartz, mentored by Matthew Lefkowitz
  • Adding fields and waves to PySoy

    by Eric Stein, mentored by Arc Riley
  • New Ticketing System for DrProject

    by Jeff Balogh, mentored by Victor Ting-Wo Ng
  • Python 2.5 Language support in Jython

    by Tobias Ivarsson, mentored by James Edward Baker
  • Web-site statistics analysis tool

    by Alberto Valverde González, mentored by Aaron Swartz
  • Python as a Symbolic Graphing Calculator with SymPy, PIL, and PyOpenGL

    by Brian Jorgensen, mentored by Ondrej Certik
  • PyPy Scheme interpreter/front-end

    by Jakub-Łukasz Gustak, mentored by Armin Rigo
  • Web.py - Session management

    by Karol Tarčák, mentored by Tom Berger
  • Crunchy tooltip, installers and security additions

    by Bryan Psimas, mentored by Johannes Woolard
  • Improve test coverage of Python 2.6 standard library

    by Alan McIntyre, mentored by Facundo Batista
  • Merge the C and Python implementations of the same interface

    by Alexandre Vassalotti, mentored by Brett Cannon
  • Patch verification system for Python

    by Michał Kwiatkowski, mentored by Grig Gheorghiu
  • New Ticketing System for DrProject

    by David Cooper, mentored by Greg Wilson
  • Jython Compiler

    by Damien Lejeune, mentored by Michael Taylor
  • SymPy - Geometry Module

    by Jason Gedge, mentored by James Joseph Jewett
  • Distributed Trial Unit Test Runner

    by Alex Lang, mentored by Jean-Paul Calderone
  • Create standard Image and Sound objects for the Python libraries

    by Mastrodomenico Lino, mentored by Arc Riley
  • Python-based equivalent to commercial modelling systems for optimization problems (AMPL, GAMS, TOMLAB etc)

    by Dmitrey Kroshko, mentored by Alan G Isaac
  • Web-based front end for PyBlosxom

    by Michael Goddard, mentored by William Guaraldi Kahn-Greene
  • Pyjamas: Export desktop applications to the web.

    by Lluís Pàmies i Juárez, mentored by James Tauber

Portland State University

Homepage: http://summer.cs.pdx.edu
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

We are the open source development team at Portland State University. We develop a lot of different kinds of open source project: everything from the world's most advanced low-cost amateur rockets and law-enforcement communication systems to web toolkits and programming environments. We specialize in open source projects with an academic component, and those that are off the beaten path. We think we've been an academic leader in the R&D side of free and open source software. For example, the components of the X Window System developed by PSU students, faculty and friends touch users of the free desktop every day. Our location in Portland, Oregon gives us access to a large pool of top-quality open source developers, and they have been very good to us in helping to mentor our students. For Summer of Code, we are looking for developers in Portland and from around the globe who are excited about an open source project that has an academic bent, or that doesn't fit well with any other Summer of Code organization.

Projects

  • Using Software Defined Radio for Aircraft Navigation

    by Yevgeny Binder, mentored by Erik Walthinsen
  • OBSearch: a distributed similarity search engine

    by Arnoldo Jose Muller Molina, mentored by Cynthia A. Brown
  • Linear algebra package for Sympy

    by Chris Wu, mentored by Michael J. Haertel
  • TracMetrix: Improve software project visibility through integrated project tracking and metrics repository

    by Bhuricha Sethanandha, mentored by Barton Christopher Massey

Rockbox

Homepage: http://www.rockbox.org
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

The Rockbox project started in december 2001 and in it we develop a complete portable music player firmware replacement - including operating system, GUI and application suite. Rockbox runs on a wide range of support platforms including players from Archos, Apple (ipod), iriver, iAudio, Toshiba and SanDisk. We're 100% spare time contributors.

Projects

  • Metadata-on-buffer and album art implementation

    by Nicolas Pennequin, mentored by Paul Louden
  • USB Stack

    by Christian Gmeiner, mentored by Peter DHoye
  • Fixed point WMA decoder implementation

    by Michael Giacomelli, mentored by Thom Johansen

Ruby Central

Homepage: http://rubycentral.org/
Preferred License: Apache License, 2.0

Ruby Central organizes national and international Ruby related activities. We're involved in everything from the international Ruby and Rails conferences, helping organize regional Ruby conferences, and supporting ongoing development projects (like RubyForge and the GSoC).

Projects

  • dcov - Ruby documentation coverage analyzer

    by Jeremy McAnally, mentored by Chad Fowler
  • Project: RSpec suite for Ruby implementations

    by Florian Groß, mentored by Marcel Molina
  • Cover the core of Ruby with RSpec

    by Pedro Del Gallego, mentored by Johnathon Hornbeck
  • Rubyland: Extending Desktop Applications with Ruby

    by Scott Ostler, mentored by Austin Ziegler
  • A Recorder/Code-Generator for FireWatir

    by Helder dos Santos Ribeiro, mentored by Angrez Singh
  • Constraint programming in Ruby

    by Andreas Launila, mentored by James Edward Gray II
  • Matrix module extensions/Various functionality extensions to Ruby's Matrix module

    by Bonchis Cosmin, mentored by Maurice Edward Borasky
  • Write a Ruby parser in ANTLR 3.0

    by Haofei Wang, mentored by Xueyong Zhi
  • Framework for ETL and Data mining operations in Ruby

    by Swanand Deodhar, mentored by Shashank T. Date
  • Apotomo Model-Driven Development Kit for Rails

    by Nick Sutterer, mentored by Patrick Hurley
  • Extending Debugging Capabilities for Ruby on Rails

    by Minciu Dumitru Eugen, mentored by Steven A Bristol

Samba

Homepage: http://www.samba.org/
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Samba is an Open Source/Free Software suite that has, since 1992, provided file and print services to all manner of SMB/CIFS clients, including the numerous versions of Microsoft Windows operating systems. Samba is freely available under the GNU General Public License.

Projects

  • Improving winbindd in Samba4

    by Kai Blin, mentored by Stefan Metzmacher
  • Improved vectored/asynchronous I/O support for Linux CIFS client

    by Kirill S. Kuvaldin, mentored by Steve French

SCons next-generation build system

Homepage: http://scons.org/
Preferred License: MIT license

SCons is a cross-platform, next-generation build tool. Unlike most other build tools that invent their own mini-language or wedge a scripting language onto some other configuration file syntax, SCons configuration files are actually Python scripts. The flexibility of Python scripting makes it possible to solve complicated build problems in surprisingly small amounts of maintainable code. Its portability (the only requirement is Python 1.5.2 or later), cross-platform features (extensive support for languages and compilers), and reliability (MD5 file signatures, cache) make it an incomparable tool not only for build masters but also for many free software projects. SCons has been an active project since its founding in 2001. SCons now averages about 7000 downloads per month and has active user and development mailing lists with membership of approximately 450 and 150, respectively, and average monthly traffic of 275 and 100 messages, respectively. The SCons Foundation was organized in 2003 to hold the copyrights of the SCons source code, and to provide a legal entity for any other organizational necessities (e.g., receiving donations). The Foundation is a Delaware non-profit corporation, but does not currently have 501(c)(3) status.

Projects

  • Automatic build graph generation for SCons modeled on Automake

    by Maciej Pasternacki, mentored by J. Gregory Noel

Scribus Team

Homepage: http://www.scribus.net
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

The Scribus Team consists of a relatively small, but dedicated core of developers along with a larger circle of individual contributors located on every continent who work together to develop Scribus - an Open Source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/UNIX, MacOS X, OS/2 and Windows desktops with a combination of "press-ready" output and new approaches to page layout. Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, color separations, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation. In the Linux/UNIX and OS/2 worlds Scribus is the Open Source Desktop Publishing Software of choice.

Projects

  • Imposition plug-in for Scribus

    by Mateusz Haligowski, mentored by Riku Leino
  • Add Math Support

    by Hermann Kraus, mentored by Andreas Vox

ScummVM

Homepage: http://www.scummvm.org
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

ScummVM is a collection of Virtual Machines which allow a variety of commercially available graphical point-and-click adventure games to run on modern hardware, often with improved features. Supported games include favorites such as Monkey Island, Simon the Sorcerer, Space Quest, and many more. To this end, the Virtual Machines (called Engines) are complete reimplementations of each supported game engine in a structured fashion using the C++ language. The development team works either by reverse engineering game executables (usually with the permission of creators of the game), or by using the original source code of the games provided by the creators. The number of engines is constantly growing thanks to a very agile and diversified development team. The VM approach followed by ScummVM results in efficient code, which has been ported to numerous Operating Systems. Besides running on all mainstream desktop environments, namely Windows, Mac OS X and most Unix variants (Linux, *BSD, Solaris), ScummVM works on popular game consoles (Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable and more), smart phones and PDAs (WinCE, PalmOS, iPhone or Symbian based), and even on many not-so-mainstream systems (like BeOS, AmigaOS or OS/2). ScummVM has a highly productive team of about 35 currently active developers (out of an all-time pool of over 60), who work together on a codebase almost 650,000 lines of code. In addition we have many non-developer contributors, and a huge and highly active community. ScummVM is among the top ranking projects hosted on sourceforge.net with well over 100,000 monthly downloads and ~10 million project web hits per month.

Projects

  • Improving AGI engine (Sarien)

    by Kari Antero Salminen, mentored by Yevgen Sandulenko
  • ScummVM Filesystem API redesign

    by David Corrales López, mentored by Max Horn
  • Mixer Improvements

    by Timothy Stephen Mason, mentored by Kostas Nakos
  • ScummVM Tools

    by Sean Murray, mentored by Kostas Nakos
  • Improved game script bytecode decompiler for ScummVM

    by Andreas Scholta, mentored by Johannes Schickel

SilverStripe CMS & Framework

Homepage: http://www.silverstripe.com
Preferred License: New BSD license

Innovation. Open Source. Make it easier and more fun to build and maintain websites. Change the world. SilverStripe is a PHP5/MySQL-based product that is both a content management system (ala Joomla!, Drupal etc) combined with a rich extendable framework for building websites and web-applications (ala Ruby On Rails, CakePHP). While SilverStripe shares all the buzzwords like MVC, AJAX, Web Standards, we realise how difficult it is to build and maintain complex websites. We are passionate about improving this and differentiate ourselves by putting the user first (important for open source!) and using contemporary technology (e.g. we consciously don’t support PHP4 because making it PHP5+ allows us to do elegant object oriented code as found with RoR). Its proven itself. In the last month since our past major release, we've been quickly endorsed on Ajaxian.com, on the front page of del.icio.us, had thousands of downloads, and our online community has grown exponentially. Among our blog posts and reviews, is a very informative review at http://www.hiveminds.co.uk/node/3236 and have been invited to present at OSCON 2007. There are a number of reasons we released the SilverStripe platform open source. Not only does it allow us to give something valuable back after years of using open source products ourselves, we feel we’re evolving the web community with a genuinely innovative product. Finally, we are so convinced SilverStripe will work best when it is widely adopted that we BSD licensed it. We are personally committed to furthering open source and open standards, which fuel the free and interoperable web and directly improves the world we live in.

Projects

  • Improve SilverStripe CMS Usability

    by Elijah Lofgren, mentored by Sean Harvey
  • Search Engine Optimization for SilverStripe

    by Will Scott, mentored by Brian Calhoun
  • Online photo editing software / New upload process / New garbage collection features

    by Mateusz Ujma, mentored by Samuel Minnee
  • Support for Multiple Databases

    by Philipp Krenn, mentored by Brian Calhoun
  • SilverStripe Mashup with Wordpress and Others

    by Quin Hoxie, mentored by Samuel Minnee
  • Internationalisation

    by Bernat Foj Capell, mentored by Ingo Schommer
  • Implement OpenID and do security audits

    by Markus Lanthaler, mentored by Hayden Smith
  • Google Maps support for SilverStripe

    by Ofir Picazo Navarro, mentored by Hayden Smith
  • Mash-ups for the SilverStripe CMS & Framework

    by Lakshan Perera, mentored by Matt Peel

SIP Communicator

Homepage: http://sip-communicator.org
Preferred License: Apache License, 2.0

SIP Communicator is an audio/video Internet phone and instant messenger written in Java. It supports some of the most popular instant messaging and telephony protocols such as SIP, Jabber (and hence GoogleTalk), AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo! Messenger, Apple Bonjour, IRC and soon others like IAX. The development of SIP Communicator started out at the Louis Pasteur University in Strasbourg, France (http://www-ulp.u-strasbg.fr) but has grown to include members and contributors from (alphabetically) Brazil, Bulgaria, Cameroon, China, France, Estonia, India, Germany, Japan, Romania, Spain, UK, USA, and others. Some of these contributors have joined the project after successfully participating in the 2007 edition of Google Summer of Code. SIP Communicator is based on the OSGi (http://osgi.org) architecture using the Felix implementation from Apache. This makes it very extensible and particularly developer friendly. Needless to say SIP Communicator is completely Open Source / Free Software, and is freely available under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License.

Projects

  • Audio/Video Mailbox for SIP Communicator

    by Ryan Ricard, mentored by Emil Ivov
  • Integrating FMJ in SIP Communicator

    by Vincenot Christian, mentored by Emil Ivov
  • Shared Whiteboards for SIP Communicator

    by Waechter Julien, mentored by Yana Stamcheva
  • SSH Support in SIP Communicator using JCraft SSH2 Java Implementation

    by Shobhit Jindal, mentored by Pavel Tankov
  • SRTP support for SIP Communicator

    by Su Bing, mentored by Romain Kuntz
  • Implement SIMPLE in SIP Communicator

    by Benoit Pradelle, mentored by Martin Andre
  • Support for RSS flows

    by Mihail-Alexandru Balan, mentored by Vincent Lucas

Swathanthra Malayalam Computing

Homepage: http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/smc
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Swathanthra Malayalam Computing aims to 1) provide Malayalam support for Free Software Operating Systems and Applications 2) develop fonts and other applications for Malayalam computing like optical character recognition , text to speech conversion and English-to-Malayalam/Malayalam-to-English natural language translation 3) localization of of desktop environments like GNOME, KDE ... and applications like Open Office and Firefox. To summarize, Enable anyone who want to use a computer, but only know Malayalam, to use a computer in Malayalam, ie to remove the language barrier to computing. Note: "Swathanthra" in Malayalam means Free/Libre

Projects

  • Unicode Standard Malayalam Font

    by Hiran V, mentored by Hussain K.H
  • Basic Voice Recognition System for malayalam

    by Shyam k, mentored by Santhosh Thottingal
  • mallutux, A Malayalam Typing Tutor

    by Mobin Mohan, mentored by Praveen A
  • Comprehensive malayalam input system for GNU/Linux

    by Jinesh K J, mentored by suresh p

The Squeak Project

Homepage: http://www.squeak.org/
Preferred License: MIT license

The Squeak Project is an organization dedicated to support Squeak's development. Squeak is a Smalltalk dialect and a programming environment created by many of the original Smalltalk authors. Its first edition was released in 1996, and it's currently at version 3.9, with a 3.10 version under development. It has spawned many related projects, both non-commercial (such as Squeakland http://www.squeakland.org/, Croquet http://www.croquetproject.org/, Scratch http://scratch.mit.edu/, Sophie http://sophieproject.org/) and commercial (Plopp http://planet-plopp.com/, DabbleDB http://www.dabbledb.com, CMSBox http://www.cmsbox.ch/). It's also the main developer platform for the Seaside web framework. The Squeak Project takes care of all the bureaucratic tasks for the Squeak community (providing funding for server and connectivity costs, etc.); all the other tasks and problems, including technical ones, are handled by the community. By partecipating as the Squeak Project, instead of simply Squeak as we did in the 2007 edition of the GSoC, we aim to muster a larger involvement from the various communities related to Squeak. The Squeak Project will be joining the Software Freedom Conservancy in the near future.

Projects

  • Developing a package model

    by Damien Cassou, mentored by Stéphane Ducasse
  • Improving the Compiler Frameworks

    by Mathieu Suen, mentored by Marcus Denker
  • A Squeak HTML/CSS Viewer

    by Jérôme Chauveau, mentored by Todd Blanchard
  • Collaborative Development

    by Benjamin Vanderheyden Schroeder, mentored by Ralph Johnson
  • “One Wiki to Rule Them All” - Pier Improvements, Addressing Scalability Issues and Implementing full Text Search.

    by Oleg Korsak, mentored by Keith Patrick Hodges

SquirrelMail

Homepage: http://squirrelmail.org
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Developers of the most popular open source webmail solution: SquirrelMail. We're a loose group of developers, there's no formal organisation.

Projects

  • Redesign of Configuration Data Management for SquirrelMail

    by Zach Segal, mentored by Thijs Kinkhorst
  • Put all your nuts in the same basket

    by Antoine DELIGNAT-LAVAUD, mentored by Thijs Kinkhorst

The Space Telescope Science Institute

Homepage: http://www.stsci.edu
Preferred License: New BSD license

The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) is the science operations center for the Hubble Space Telescope (HST; in orbit since 1990) and for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST; scheduled to be launched in 2013). STScI is located on the Johns Hopkins University Homewood campus in Baltimore, Maryland and was established in 1981 as a community-based science center that is operated for NASA by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA). Today, in addition to performing continuing science operations of HST and preparing for scientific exploration with JWST, STScI manages and operates the Multi-mission Archive at Space Telescope (MAST), the Data Management Center for the Kepler mission and a number of other activities benefiting from its expertise in and infrastructure for supporting the operations of space-based astronomical observatories. The staff at STScI consists of scientists (mostly astronomers and astrophysicists), software engineers, data management and telescope operations personnel, education and public outreach experts, and administrative and business support personnel. There are approximately 100 Ph.D. scientists working at STScI, 15 of which are ESA staff who are on assignment to the HST project. The total STScI staff consists of about 350 people. STScI operates its missions on behalf of NASA, the worldwide astronomy community, and the general public. The science operations activities directly serve the astronomy community, primarily in the form of HST (and eventually JWST) observations and grants, but also include distributing data from other NASA missions (e.g., Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer, Galaxy Evolution Explorer) and ground-based sky surveys. The ground system development activities create and maintain the software systems needed to provide these services to the astronomy community. STScI's public outreach activities provide a wide range of information, on-line media, and programs for formal educators, planetariums and science museums, and the general public. STScI's award-winning public outreach websites receive millions of hits per month. STScI also serves as a source of guidance to NASA on a range of optical and UV space astrophysics issues. The STScI staff interacts and communicates with the professional astronomy community through a number of channels, including participation at the bi-annual meetings of the American Astronomical Society, publication of quarterly STScI newsletters and the STScI website, hosting user committees and science working groups, and holding several scientific and technical symposia and workshops each year. These activities enable STScI to disseminate information to the telescope user community as well as enabling the STScI staff to maximize the scientific productivity of the facilities they operate by responding to the needs of the community and of NASA.

Projects

  • Google Sky

    by Daniel Klöck, mentored by Alberto Conti
  • Concrete mathematics and difference calculus extension module for SymPy CAS project

    by Mateusz Paprocki, mentored by Ondrej Certik

Subversion

Homepage: http://subversion.tigris.org/
Preferred License: Apache License, 2.0

We maintain and develop Subversion, an open-source version control system. (Formally, we are The Subversion Corporation, and the corporation home page is http://subversion.org/; however, http://subversion.tigris.org/ is the project home page and that is the site we try to focus the community around.)

Projects

  • Merge Tracking Auditing

    by Hyrum K. Wright, mentored by Daniel Rall
  • An augmented diff representation

    by Charles Acknin, mentored by Malcolm Rowe
  • Python Binding Update

    by Sage LaTorra, mentored by David James
  • scheme & haskell bindings :)

    by Holden Karau, mentored by Justin Erenkrantz

Swarm Development Group (SDG)

Homepage: http://www.swarm.org
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

The Swarm Development Group (SDG) was founded in September 1999 as a private, not-for-profit [501c(3)] organization to support the development of the Swarm Simulation System (Swarm) and the interests of the group members. The purposes of the SDG are to: 1. advance the state-of-the-art in multi agent based simulation through the continued advancement of the Swarm Simulation System and support of the Swarm user community 2. promote the free interchange of multi agent based simulations among computing specialists and the public 3. develop and maintain the integrity and competence of individuals engaged in the practice of agent based simulation. Agent-based models (ABMs) are an exciting new approach for learning about and simulating complex systems, and its use is growing rapidly in science and business. As opposed to traditional modeling techniques that represent systems via differential equations for system state, ABMs represent systems as a collection of digital individuals that each have unique characteristics, interact with each other and their environment, and exhibit adaptive behavior. Swarm is a platform for ABMs that includes: a conceptual framework for designing, describing, and conducting experiments on ABMs; software implementing that framework and providing many handy tools; and a community of users and developers that share ideas, software, and experience. Swarm was the first of several agent-based modeling platforms that are widely used by scientists and students studying complexity in many fields of science. Swarm was originally developed in the mid-1990s by Chris Langton at the Santa Fe Institute and has an active, international user community. Swarm software is a library of Objective-C classes; users code their models in Objective-C, Java, or C++.

Projects

  • defobj portability across ObjC runtimes

    by Nima Talebi, mentored by Scott Christley
  • Separation of model from viewer

    by Gennady Telegin Sergeevich, mentored by Marcus G. Daniels

Ubuntu

Homepage: http://www.ubuntu.com/
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Ubuntu is a complete Linux-based operating system, freely available with both community and professional support. It is developed by a large community and we invite you to participate too! The Ubuntu community is built on the ideas enshrined in the Ubuntu Philosophy: that software should be available free of charge, that software tools should be usable by people in their local language and despite any disabilities, and that people should have the freedom to customise and alter their software in whatever way they see fit.

Projects

  • bughelper "data center version" - making bug-triaging more easy!

    by Markus Korn, mentored by Daniel Holbach
  • In the light of cdrskin

    by Mario Đanić, mentored by Michael Vogt
  • A Gdebi Qt/KDE Frontend for Kubuntu

    by Martin Böhm, mentored by Jonathan Riddell
  • Automatic boot and application start file prefetching

    by Krzysztof Lichota, mentored by Tollef Fog Heen
  • GNota - A teachers gradebook for Edubuntu

    by Leandro Batista Lameiro, mentored by Tom Hoffman
  • LDAP out-of-the-box

    by Patrick Clancy, mentored by Rodrigo Pereira Braga
  • PyStart - Python Programming teaching/testing program

    by Jason Lee Roy Brower, mentored by Pete Savage
  • Ubuntu bootloader manager

    by Tomé Rosa Vardasca, mentored by Jordan Mantha
  • Crypt manager

    by Kévin Dunglas, mentored by Ioan Monoses
  • Accessibility improvements with the help of Beryl/Compiz and Orca

    by Kristian Lyngstol, mentored by Henrik Nilsen Omma
  • Accessibility enhancements

    by Guillaume Seguin, mentored by Henrik Nilsen Omma
  • Handy Network Load Monitor and Traffic Inspector - Administration Tool

    by Lucas Mazzardo Veloso, mentored by Rodrigo Pereira Braga
  • Mouse Gesture Recognition for the Desktop

    by Gerd Kohlberger, mentored by Henrik Nilsen Omma

Umit

Homepage:
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Umit is a Nmap frontend, that has been developed in Python and GTK and was started with the sponsoring of Google's Summer of Code 2005. The project goal is to develop a network management tool that is really useful for advanced users and easy to be used by newbies. With Umit, a network administrator can create scan profiles for faster and easier network scanning or even compare scan results to easily see any changes. A regular user will also be able to construct powerful scans with Umit Command Creator Wizard.

Projects

  • new: UmitWeb: the Umit web frontend

    by Rodolfo Carvalho, mentored by Adriano Monteiro Marques
  • Umit Independent Features Proposal

    by Frederico Ribeiro, mentored by Adriano Monteiro Marques
  • RadialNet - Radial Network Visualization

    by João Paulo de Souza Medeiros, mentored by Adriano Monteiro Marques
  • Umit Interface Editor, [Profile and Wizard Editor]

    by Luís António Bastião Silva, mentored by Adriano Monteiro Marques
  • Network Inventory, Scheduler & Co.

    by Guilherme Henrique Polo Goncalves, mentored by Adriano Monteiro Marques
  • NSE Facilitator and Independent Features

    by Maxim I. Gavrilov, mentored by Adriano Monteiro Marques

VideoLAN

Homepage: http://www.videolan.org
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

VideoLAN is a group of software programmers that originated in a few projects licensed in the GPL. The most known of those projects are VLC media player and x264 encoder. But other less known projects still exists.

Projects

  • Implement advanced subtitle support for VLC

    by Philip-David Lamparter, mentored by Sigmund Augdal
  • VLC Mac OS X Framework Implementation

    by Pierre d'Herbemont, mentored by Felix Paul Kuehne
  • Audio Extensions for VLC Media Player

    by Osunkunle Biodun Isaac, mentored by Derk-Jan Hartman
  • Overlay Video Filter for VLC

    by Søren Bøg, mentored by Antoine Cellerier

Vim

Homepage: http://www.vim.org
Preferred License: Apache License, 2.0

Vi IMproved, the text editor

Projects

  • Integrating vim editor with eclipse

    by Nageswara Rao Mannem, mentored by Abraham Moolenaar
  • Improve Vim GUI support on Mac OS X

    by Jiang Jiang, mentored by Abraham Moolenaar
  • Improve regexp performance

    by Ian Young, mentored by Russell Cox
  • Vim bug fixing

    by Martin Toft, mentored by Abraham Moolenaar
  • Vim: Regexp Improvement

    by Xiaozhou Liu, mentored by Russell Cox
  • Cleaning ViM, Understanding ViM

    by C.M. Lubinski, mentored by Abraham Moolenaar
  • Vim Eclipse Plugin

    by David Anthony Terei, mentored by Abraham Moolenaar

Wikimedia Foundation

Homepage: http://wikimediafoundation.org/
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge... That's what we're doing. The Wikimedia Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit company which operates Wikipedia and other community-built, open-source, free-content educational resource web sites. Wikimedia maintains the open-source MediaWiki software which powers these and many other wiki sites.

Projects

  • Comprehensive Automated Multimedia Recoding for Wikimedia

    by Michael S. Baynton, mentored by Brion Vibber

The Wine Project

Homepage: http://www.winehq.org
Preferred License: GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

The Wine Project is dedicated to producing an LGPL'd implementation of the win16 and win32 APIs with as goal running all Windows applications and games under linux and bsd.

Projects

  • Improve sound in wine

    by Maarten Lankhorst, mentored by Marcus Meissner
  • The DIB Engine

    by Jessie Laine Allen, mentored by Huw D M Davies
  • Tablet PC support in Wine

    by Carl John Klehm, mentored by Daniel Richard Kegel
  • Beginning of Direct3D10 implementation

    by András Kovács, mentored by Stefan Dösinger
  • Improve WIne's built-in text editors

    by Alexander Nicolaysen Sørnes, mentored by Eric Pouech
  • Windows Printing subsystem bridge (i.e. use WIN32 drivers to print from wine)

    by Marcel Philipp Partap, mentored by Detlef Riekenberg

WinLibre

Homepage: http://www.winlibre.com
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

WinLibre project is an open source project aimed at popularizing Open Source software. WinLibre is a META-project that was originally targeted for the windows platform (hence its name) but it has evolved during the last 2 years to embrace also the Mac OS and Linux platforms. We are focusing on delivering to our users quality open source software with a strong emphasis on ease of use. We are mainly maintaining WinLibre (open source software distribution for windows) and MacLibre (open source software distribution for Mac OS X). The Winlibre distribution provides a collection of first-class open-source software bundled in a easy single installer & updater. Through time and thanks to the former editions of the Google Summer Of Code, the Winlibre project has evolved and created other sub-projects to fill gaps in the open-source desktop software offering. The Maclibre distribution is an equivalent to the Winlibre distribution for Mac OS.

Projects

  • A Windows-Based Application Packaging System

    by Edward Ropple III, mentored by Pierre-Jean Coudert
  • OpenTouch – open source framework for multi-modal input devices

    by Paweł Sołyga, mentored by CACHET Bertrand

WordPress

Homepage: http://wordpress.org/
Preferred License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

WordPress is the most popular open source state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform (blogging software).

Projects

  • Hierarchical Page (list) Management using jQuery

    by Bernardo de Pádua dos Santos, mentored by Michael D Adams
  • Performance Proposal

    by Andrew Nelson, mentored by Robert Deaton
  • Create Unit Test Framework for Editor Formatting

    by Luc Bizeul, mentored by Lloyd Denis Budd
  • Comment Panel and Commenting System Additions

    by Mike Grouchy, mentored by Peter John Westwood
  • Easier template tags

    by Keith Bowes, mentored by Andy Skelton
  • WordPress Update Plugin

    by Dion Hulse, mentored by Robert Deaton
  • by Corey Shaffer, mentored by Brian C. Layman
  • WordPress Market and Suitability Research and Prototyping

    by Celeste Lyn Paul, mentored by Matt Mullenweg
  • Internationalization revisited

    by Matthias Bauer, mentored by Nikolay Bachiyski
  • Adding Podcasting Support

    by Ronald Heft, mentored by Lloyd Denis Budd

wxPython

Homepage: http://wxPython.org/
Preferred License: wxWindows Library License

wxPython is closely associated with the wxWidgets group, and several developers cross-over between them both. The organization is led by myself, Robin Dunn, and is supported by several active contributors from the community.

Projects

  • GUI Unit Testing Framework

    by Frank Tobia, mentored by Kevin Ollivier
  • Refactoring XRCed to use extendible plug-in architecture

    by Roman Rolinsky, mentored by Robin Dunn

wxWidgets

Homepage: http://www.wxwidgets.org
Preferred License: wxWindows Library License

wxWidgets is an open source cross-platform GUI toolkit, with ports for Linux/Unix (GTK+, X11, Motif, MGL), Windows, Windows Mobile, Mac OS X, and OS/2. You can write wxWidgets applications in several languages including C++, Python, C#, Ruby, and Perl. Thousands of commercial and non-commercial organizations rely on wxWidgets; notable applications include Audacity, OSAF's Chandler, Juice, AVG Antivirus, Forte Agent, and BitWise IM. Recently, wxWidgets user Robert J. Lang was featured on Apple's front page for his work on origami software using wxWidgets.

Projects

  • XTI Metadata Completion

    by Francesco Montorsi, mentored by Stefan Csomor
  • Complete wxDataViewCtrl

    by Bo Yang, mentored by Robert Roebling
  • wxWidgets Web Port

    by John Wilmes, mentored by Julian Smart

Xiph.org Foundation

Homepage: http://xiph.org/
Preferred License: New BSD license

Xiph.Org is an open source project and non-profit corporation dedicated to providing open and free-to-implement multimedia technology as a foundation for an interoperable, level playing field on the internet and other digital distribution networks. Over the past 8 years we have developed most of the major patent-free audio and video codecs currently in use, including Vorbis, Speex, FLAC and Theora, as well as developing the Ogg streaming format, and the Icecast streaming media server. This year we are also coordinating projects for the Annodex association under our umbrella. The Annodex project is developing a set of open specifications and open source software to allow the creation of hyperlinked Webs of audio and video integrated with the text-based view of the current Web. Toward this goal, Annodex has done a great deal of work developing tools, browser plugins and convenience libraries to facilitate adoption of Xiph.Org's lower-level technology. As such the two projects have largely aligned goals, but focus on different levels in the stack.

Projects

  • Hardware implementation of Theora decoding

    by Andre Luiz Nazareth da Costa, mentored by Timothy B. Terriberry
  • Sinusoidal coding for Ghost

    by Ishaan Dalal, mentored by Monty Montgomery

XMMS2 - X(cross)platform Music Multiplexing System

Homepage:
Preferred License: GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

XMMS2 is the spiritual successor to the very successful XMMS project. The creators of XMMS got together in 2002 and spun out the XMMS2 sister project that is now lead by Tobias Rundström and Anders Waldenborg with around 10-15 regular contributors spread over the world (but concentrated in Europe). Our focus has been to separate music playback from the UI in order to provide multiple interfaces and other interesting features. While the code of the music playback engine is starting to mature we have also added features that are expected from modern music players, like a Media library and a powerful way of querying it (Collections).

Projects

  • Kick Ass Visualization using SHM/UDP

    by Johannes Jordan, mentored by Tobias Rundström
  • TESTING FRAMEWORK FOR XMMS2

    by Florian Ragwitz, mentored by Alexander Botero-Lowry
  • XMMS2 IPC Autogeneration

    by Thomas Coppi, mentored by Anders Waldenborg
  • Implementing Service Clients

    by Ning Shi, mentored by Sébastien Cevey

XMPP Standards Foundation

Homepage: http://www.xmpp.org/
Preferred License: MIT license

The mission of the XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) is to build an open, standardized, secure, feature-rich, widely-deployed, decentralized infrastructure for real-time communication and collaboration over the Internet. We seek to achieve that goal by developing the world's best open protocols for instant messaging, presence, and other forms of near-real-time communication, based on the IETF's Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (a formalization of the streaming XML protocols originally defined by the Jabber open-source community).

Projects

  • Implementing 'Personal Eventing' in the Openfire Jabber server

    by Armando Diaz-Jagucki, mentored by Gaston Dombiak
  • Implement XEP-33 Extended Stanza Addressing and other XEPs on ejabberd

    by Bernardo Antonio de la Ossa Pérez, mentored by Mickaël Rémond
  • Encrypted Sessions Test Suite and Implementation

    by Brendan Taylor, mentored by Leboulanger Yann
  • Data Form Designer Suite for XMPP

    by Tobias Markmann, mentored by Kevin Smith
  • Jingle Audio/Video for Gajim

    by Tomasz Melcer, mentored by Leboulanger Yann
  • Implement Bidirectional-streams Over Synchronous HTTP (BOSH) support in gloox

    by Matthew James Wild, mentored by Jakob Schröter

The X.Org Foundation

Homepage: http://x.org
Preferred License: MIT license

X.Org maintains and develops the X Window System

Projects

  • Generating the XCB c-code in Python

    by Thomas Hunger, mentored by Anselm R. Garbe
  • Moving the mouse handling code into a separate thread

    by Tiago Vignatti, mentored by Daniel Stone

XWiki

Homepage: http://www.xwiki.org/
Preferred License: GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

XWiki is a Java open source software development platform based on the wiki principles, under a LGPL license. In addition to being a full-featured wiki, it is also a second generation wiki allowing collaborative web applications to be written easily and quickly. On top of this platform several products are developed, targeted mainly on aiding enterprise-level needs. XWiki has a vibrant community of developers and users. The community is made of individual users as well as companies around the world which are using XWiki for Intranets and Communities. One example of an important project built on top of XWiki is Curriki (http://www.curriki.org) which is open source itself and hosted inside XWiki's source repository. Curriki is an online service for creating and sharing open education resources (based on XWiki and the Google Web Toolkit).

Projects

  • XWiki Storage Improvements

    by Artem Melentyev, mentored by Sergiu Gabriel Dumitriu
  • Functional Test Suite

    by Catalin Hritcu, mentored by Vincent Massol
  • New: AJAX Interface Improvements

    by Evelina Petronela Slatineanu, mentored by Sergiu Gabriel Dumitriu
  • Collaborative tools on top of xwiki

    by Boureanu Ioana Cristina, mentored by jérémi Joslin
  • IDE Editor Integration project

    by J.A.D.T.Jayasuriya, mentored by Vincent Massol
  • Google Docs Integration

    by Radu DANCIU, mentored by Ludovic Dubost

Zope Foundation, Inc

Homepage: http://foundation.zope.org
Preferred License: Zope Public License

The Zope Foundation has the goal to promote, maintain, and develop the Zope (http://zope.org) platform. It does this by supporting the Zope community. Our community includes the open source community of contributors to the Zope software, contributors to the documentation and web infrastructure, as well as the community of businesses and organizations that use Zope. The Zope Foundation is the copyright holder of the Zope software and many extensions and associated software. The Zope Foundation also manages the zope.org website, and manages the infrastructure for open source collaboration.

Projects

  • Run Zope 3 using Python 2.5

    by Nikhil N, mentored by Baiju Muthukadan
  • Application for SoC: Zope Grok improvements

    by Ulrich Fouquet, mentored by Philipp von Weitershausen
  • Zope3 Support for AJAX enhanced forms and widgets

    by Paul Carduner, mentored by Martijn Pieters
  • Wandering Books in Grok (v.2)

    by Luciano Ramalho, mentored by Martijn Faassen