#GSoC Google Summer of Code ´25 ends :: ++ 1000 open-source organizations participated: very important and extremely val

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Summer ends on November 17th – here's a brief summary of this Summer of Code 🏖️☀️🌟 the global mentorship program that introduces students and aspiring developers to open-source software development... In just a few days, on November 17th, it will come to an end – the twenty-first edition since 2005: the Google Summer of Code (GSoC), the global mentorship program that introduces students and aspiring developers to open-source software development.

          

 Dear Friends, hello dear Community on Neowin,🙂

    First of all: hope youre all right and everything goes well .. 

   just want to  share this with you..   - and i hope that this is the right sub-forum... - its non-windows - and i guess that we all have a awesome great benefit of the GSoC...;

   This year, many participants from 123 countries took part. see some facts and figures:

 

    Graphic & Source: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/

 

   

 What is Google Summer of Code?

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   some Facts & Figures 💯

   15,240 applications from 130 countries (+130% above the previous record)

   23,559 project proposals (+159% compared to 2024)

   185 organizations from all areas of the open-source world      

 

   see for example Debian at the GSoC 25: 

   the Wiki-Page of Debian: https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2025

   the Projects were the devs worked on: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2025/organizations/debian ... done by the participants:

    

   Tua re agitur – it's about us:     

The Google Summer of Code is much more than an internship or funding program. Everywhere, in the many projects and mentorships, our shared vision is being further developed: Free Software, openness, and collaboration.   Many applications we use daily – GIMP, Inkscape, Krita, Blender, FreeCAD, and many more – were improved or enhanced with new features this summer as part of the GSoC. ☀️🏖️🤩What happens here directly impacts our daily work, our tools, and our ideas about open development.

 

   Tua re agitur – it's about all of us.🎊

 

  Some example projects (2025)

GIMP:

Gabriele Barbero – GEGL Filter Browser

Ondřej Míchal – Plug-in Development Browser

SamIsTheFBI – Online Extensions Registry

 

FreeCAD:

Sayantan Deb – Interadtive 3D-Controls

Chirag Singh – Export to 3D-PDF

Theo VT – Parallel work on several Documents

    

see more; 

   all projekts 2025 in a overview https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2025/projects

    GSoC Statistics : https://opensource.googleblog.com/2025/08/google-summer-of-code-2025-contributor-statistics.html

   the Wikipedia-Site : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code

    

   have a great day all dear friends on the great Neowin-Forums - long long live open source...