Google Summer of Code (GSoC)
253 organisations took part between 2024 and 2026. 200 have repositories measured so far, last updated 11 Oct 2026.
The ranking rule. Share of pull requests from outside the core team that got a reply from a person within 7 days, across all of the organisation's measured repositories. Ties go to the higher outside merge rate. An organisation needs at least 20 outside pull requests to take a place; smaller ones follow, unranked.
Each year Google funds new contributors to spend about 12 weeks building something for an open source project.
You work with a mentor from the organisation you applied to. You do not need to be a student, only new to open source and 18 or older.
You write a proposal to one of the organisations below. That is why it matters which of them reply to newcomers.
Details and dates are on the official Google Summer of Code site.
Now is the best time to start: contribute small fixes to the organisation you want, so the mentors know your name before applications open.
Oct
You are here.
Organisations
213 organisations measured on GitHub
Rspamd is an email framework and spam filter
GSoC 2025 · 9 repositories measured
cluac++rustclickhouse
40 organisations cannot be measured on GitHub. They host their code elsewhere, or they are umbrella organisations whose projects change every year. They are listed so the ranking does not pretend they do not exist.
Mid January
Many publish their idea lists now.
Late February
Pick two or three and read their ideas.
Applications
Mid March
Send mentors a draft early for feedback.
End of March
About two weeks after opening.
End of April
Meet your mentor before coding starts.
Coding
Late May
About 12 paid weeks, midterm in July.
Late August
Larger projects can run into November.
Google has not published the 2027 dates yet; these follow the 2026 programme, which has kept the same shape for years. Official timeline
Start with rspamd/rspamd
a fast, flexible machine learning library
GSoC 2024 · 7 repositories measured
c++c++ template metaprogramming
Start with mlpack/mlpack
Purely functional programming language
GSoC 2024, 2025, 2026 · 12 repositories measured
haskellghc
Start with haskell/haskell-language-server
The package for computation in game theory
GSoC 2026 · 1 repository measured
pythonc++wxwidgetsvisualization
Start with gambitproject/gambit
Encrypting the Internet with IKE / IPsec VPN
GSoC 2026 · 1 repository measured
ckernelnssrfcslibevent
Start with libreswan/libreswan
Unleash eBPF Potential with our tools and runtimes
GSoC 2024 · 12 repositories measured
linuxllvmebpfwebassembly
Start with eunomia-bpf/bpftime
Create and distribute free geodata for the world
GSoC 2024, 2025, 2026 · 12 repositories measured
pythonjavascriptc++dockergltf
Start with openstreetmap/id-tagging-schema
Stay on top of your Literature
GSoC 2024, 2025, 2026 · 12 repositories measured
javajavafxaibibtex
Start with JabRef/user-documentation
Advance the Kotlin programming language
GSoC 2024, 2025, 2026 · 1 repository measured
kotlinjvmaiparsers & compilersmultiplatform
Start with JetBrains/kotlin
The flexible platform empowering website creators.
GSoC 2025, 2026 · 1 repository measured
mysqljavascripthtmlphpai
Start with joomla/joomla-cms
Dates for the next round are published by Google on the official timeline. Contributable is independent and not affiliated with Google.