The Google Summer of Code 2025 has ended for us at OpenPrinting, and it was the most successful one!

11 contributors did amazing work, and all of them successfully. Nobody failed this time.

And not only we liked the outcome, also our contributors loved working with us and most praised me and their mentors.

And we already have 17 candidates for next year ...

https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-Google-Summer-of-Code-2025-Our-most-successful-one/

#OpenPrinting #GSoC #GSoC2025 #GSoC2026 #Zephyr #GNOME #KDE #CUPS #PDF #Rust #Python

Over the last 6 months, two students made some amazing contributions to cargo-semver-checks.

Check out their work and the work of their peers elsewhere in the Rust project in this new post:
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/11/18/gsoc-2025-results/

#rust #rustlang #gsoc #gsoc2025

https://kiwix.org/en/what-an-unconference-can-teach-about-open-source/ #foss #GSOC2025

Using bubblewrap to add sandboxing to NetBSD

https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/gsoc2025_bubblewrap_sandboxing

#HackerNews #bubblewrap #NetBSD #sandboxing #GSoC2025 #security #technology

👻 🎃 JabRef 6.0-alpha.3 Release 🎃 👻

Trick or treat! Happy Halloween from the JabRef team! We are happy to announce the release of JabRef 6.0 Alpha 3

Release Highlights:

- Arm64 Linux support,
- Improved UI for Citations
- New Fetchers: #OpenAlex and #EuropePMC
- Initial Cite As You Write endpoint
- First CLI version #JabKit with integrity check
- #CSL style fixes for #LibreOffice
- #JavaFX 25

#java #opensource #linux #arm #bibliography #academia #citations #texlatex #JabRef #GSOC #gsoc2025

@justinmk and @bfredl.bsky.social enjoying #gsoc2025 mentor summit

What hashtag are we using for #gsoc #gsoc2025? :-D

I‘m attending the #gsoc2025 mentors summit for #freifunk in #Munich.

🎓 2025 Google Summer of Code participant Aaron Espinoza ran a project to test FreeBSD device drivers written in Rust. Here’s a short introduction to that piece of work.

Watch Aaron’s GSoC talk: https://youtu.be/y82-t1tDLWg?si=9n6X3uDZB_Hk3mDr
💻 Explore the code: https://github.com/Acesp25/rustkld

We’re grateful to Aaron, his mentors, and the FreeBSD/GSoC community for advancing this work.

👉 What are your thoughts on using Rust for FreeBSD driver development?

#FreeBSD #GSoC2025 #RustLang #OpenSource #KernelDevelopment

🎉 Congratulations to Kayla Powell on completing their Google Summer of Code 2025 project with FreeBSD!

Programs like Google Summer of Code give students the opportunity to make meaningful, long-term contributions to FreeBSD while working closely with experienced mentors.

Learn more about FreeBSD’s involvement in GSoC: https://www.freebsd.org/projects/summerofcode/

What advice would you share with students or first-time contributors just starting their open-source journey?

#FreeBSD #GSoC2025 #OpenSource

Great improvements made to the Firmware Upgrader module of #OpenWISP during #gsoc2025

https://youtu.be/EjHTSle2zHA?si=-d1i2OPgenLOXVtJhttps://youtu.be/EjHTSle2zHA?si=-d1i2OPgenLOXVtJ

Great work!

🚀 As the Google Summer of Code 2025 comes to a close, our two students write about their work, challenges and solutions. Mayn thanks for your hard work!!

Check out their final blog posts: https://blog.52north.org/category/gsoc/

👉 #KomMonitor: Breathing New Life into an Open-Source Gem (Pranjal Goyal)

👉 Genetic Algorithm for Ship Route Optimization (Shreyas Ranganatha)

#GSoC2025 #AngularMigration #geneticalgorithms

We're excited to share a recap (part 1) of our #GoogleSummerOfCode2025 journey in our latest blog post! Read all about it here: https://rizin.re/posts/gsoc-2025-summary-1/ #GSoC #GSoC2025

Well done to our students Ahmed and Taksh!

#NuttX Support for IEEE 802.3-2022 10BASE-T1S/L #Ethernet using Open Aliance SPI MAC-PHYs implemented by Michal Matias from #CVUT in frame of #GSoC2025 has been fully merged into NuttX mainline. The common part resides at drivers/net/oa_tc6. #ESP32C6 mapping and mapping for SAVM71-Xplained Ultra are good examples for straightforward extension to other MCU and board NuttX SPI interfaces. The accompanying plcatool for Physical Layer Collision Avoidance parameters configuration matching OA-TC14 specification is another contribution.

🚀🌈 GSoC 2025: Where we celebrate a summer's worth of labor for adding a byte to LLVM IR! 🎉🎓 Because, clearly, the world was just on the edge of chaos without that extra byte type to make #memcpy marginally more efficient. 🙄🔧
https://blog.llvm.org/posts/2025-08-29-gsoc-byte-type/ #GSoC2025 #LLVMIR #efficiency #summerofcode #technews #HackerNews #ngated

Our #GSoC2025 contributor @khanxmetu shares his work adding keyboard shortcuts to the Django admin ⌨️⭐️ https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/sep/04/keyboard-shorcuts-in-django-via-gsoc-2025/

Our #GSoC2025 contributor Rohit Sharma shares his journey bringing grid awareness to Wagtail websites 🌱 https://wagtail.org/blog/grid-aware-websites-journey-via-gsoc-2025/

Opportunities for up to 90% reduction in carbon emissions!

#GSOC2025 🎉

Jade Ellis built a replacement for BrainzBot’s archival function – a chat archiver that natively understands and preserves Matrix’s rich features:
https://blog.metabrainz.org/2025/09/01/gsoc-2025-building-libretto-a-matrix-archiver/

#GSOC2025 🎉

Hemang Mishra revamping the onboarding experience for the ListenBrainz app:
https://blog.metabrainz.org/2025/08/31/gsoc-2025-onboarding-revamp-in-listenbrainz-android/

#GSOC2025 🎉

Shaik Junaid developed the basis for a centralized notification management system for all MetaBrainz services, implementing REST APIs hosted on MetaBrainz:
https://blog.metabrainz.org/2025/08/30/gsoc-2025-metabrainz-notification-system/