Ideas

How to participate?

Contributors are expected to go through the list of ideas dropdown below and join the discussion by clicking on the Discuss on forum button. All ideas have colorful badges for Complexity and Size for making the selection process easier for contributors. Anyone is welcome to introduce new ideas via the forum gsoc-ideas tag. Only ideas with sufficiently experienced mentor backing as deemed by the administrators will be added here.

Complexity	Size
High complexity	350 hours
Medium complexity	175 hours
Low complexity	90 hours

Tip

For inspiration, you can also look at ideas from past years and Projects.

Existing ideas

• 2026 GSoC Ideas
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• 2022 GSoC Ideas
• 2021 GSoC Ideas
• 2020 GSoC Ideas
• 2019 GSoC Ideas
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• 2016 GSoC Ideas
• 2015 GSoC Ideas
• 2014 GSoC Ideas
• 2013 GSoC Ideas
• 2012 GSoC Ideas
• 2009 GSoC Ideas

Idea Template

Project idea template (Topic of project here.) Medium complexity 175 hours (update these tags accordingly)

Project heading

Project Description here

Goal: Goal of your project here

Hardware Skills: eg. Verilog, verification, FPGA

Software Skills: eg. RISC-V ISA, assembly, Linux

Possible Mentors: eg. Cyril Jean, Jason Kridner

Discuss on forum

New ideas

Discussion of new ideas should be done on the forum before submitting a merge request to add a new idea.

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