GSoC 2021 Organizations

Since SMC didn’t get selected for GSoC I decided to look through the organization list in GSoC and see how many I knew. Turns out there are some nice new ones.

I won’t list all the organizations. Just the ones that I find interesting or have heard about.

Health

• caMicroscope - web-based biomedical image and data viewer.
• Android FHIR SDK - for FHIR on Android
• JabRef - a zotero alternative
• LibreHealth - EMR, etc. Demo doesn’t work.
• OpenMRS - electronic medical record system

Language tech

• Apertium - machine translation.

Apps

• AnkiDroid - The spaced repetition learning system.
• Audacity - The only audio editor you ever need.
• Blender
• Joplin - note taking. Like notion, but on desktop.
• Synfig - 2D animation like macromedia flash

Knowledge related

• DBpedia - sounds like wikidata, but very different
• Kolibri - offline store of learning resources
• MetaBrainz - community maintained databases
• Oppia - like Khan academy
• Processing - tools to learn programming (creative coding in javascript, etc)
• Purr Data - visual programming
• Software Heritage - like internet archive, but for code

Software development related

• boost - C++ libraries (like JSON parser)
• Casbin - authorization library (in java, node.js, python, and many useful languages) that supports configuration in various formats.
• checkstyle - code style for Java
• coala - linting for multiple languages
• godot - gaming engine
• hydra - seems like a much better, W3C led openAPI
• MetaCall - polyglot programming
• mypy - static types for python

Hardware related

• Apertus - professional cinema making.
• BeagleBoard - like Arduino
• CircuitVerse - logic circuits in browser.

People related

• CHAOSS - trying to make community health countable