It’s been another fantastic year for Google Summer of Code with GNOME! This year, six contributors worked on a range of interesting projects across our ecosystem.
Our contributors have been blogging about their progress on Planet GNOME throughout the summer. In case you missed their updates, here is a breakdown of what they have worked on:
- Adding a recovery mechanism for GPU resets in Mutter by Toluwaleke Ogundipe
- Adding debug adapter protocol (DAP) support to GJS by Angelo Verlain Shema
- Playing vocab-style puzzles in GNOME Crosswords by Laureen Caliman
- Rewriting the Pitivi timeline ruler in GTK4/Rust by Michael Calabrese
- Implementing app uninstallation in the GNOME Shell app grid by Ramayanapu Jagath
- Porting Gitg to GTK4 by Shivam
Our interns also presented their work during GUADEC. You can watch their lightning talks on YouTube.
This would not have been possible without the support of our community mentors. A huge thank you to Jonathan Blandford, Federico Mena Quintero, Alex Băluț, Yatin, Adrian Vovk, Jonas Ådahl, Robert Mader, Carlos Garnacho, and Philip Chimento. Mentoring takes a lot of time and energy, and it plays a vital role in onboarding new contributors to our community.
If you are a GNOME developer and interested in mentoring a project next year, you can already start working on your project ideas and submit them at gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/internship/project-ideas.
If you are a newcomer interested in starting your journey toward becoming a GNOME contributor, check out gsoc.gnome.org and stay tuned to Planet GNOME and our social media channels for updates on the 2027 program!