Summer of Code projects for GNU

This page has the project suggestions for GNU's participation in Google Summer of Code 2024.

STUDENTS - BEFORE YOU SUBMIT YOUR PROJECT PROPOSAL:

Please read the GNU Project's guidelines for Summer of Code projects.

Most importantly, please make sure you include all the information requested. If you have questions, please ask summer-of-code@gnu.org (list info here).

Please note that you are not bound to use these ideas, you can propose a new project. It is a good idea to find a mentor and discuss the idea before submit it.

Projects and Ideas

GNU is a large and complex project, and thus is subdivided into packages, which are relatively independent projetcts. In Summer of Code, GNU acts as an umbrella organization for its packages. The ideas here are grouped by package. Many packages have more than one suggestion, or even their own ideas page.

GNU poke

GNU poke is an interactive, extensible editor for binary data. Not limited to editing basic entities such as bits and bytes, it provides a full-fledged procedural, interactive programming language designed to describe data structures and to operate on them.

GNU poke maintains a list of ideas here: https://jemarch.net/poke-gsoc-2024.html.

GNUnet

GNUnet is an alternative network stack for building secure, decentralized and privacy-preserving distributed applications. Our goal is to replace the old insecure Internet protocol stack. Starting from an application for secure publication of files, it has grown to include all kinds of basic protocol components and applications towards the creation of a GNU internet.

GNUnet maintains a list of ideas here: https://www.gnunet.org/en/gsoc.html.

GnuCOBOL

GnuCOBOL is a free, modern COBOL compiler. It implements a substantial part of the COBOL 85, X/Open COBOL and newer ISO COBOL standards (2002, 2014, 2023), as well as many extensions included in other COBOL compilers (IBM COBOL, MicroFocus COBOL, ACUCOBOL-GT and others).

GnuCOBOL translates COBOL into C and internally compiles the translated code using a native C compiler, therefore works on nearly every platform.

GnuCOBOL maintains a list of ideas here: https://gnucobol.sourceforge.io/gsoc.html

GNU Guix

Guix is a distribution of the GNU operating system developed by the GNU Project—which respects the freedom of computer users.

GNU Guix maintains a list of ideas here: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/GSoC-2024.

Other links:

Google SoC Page.