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

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

🎓 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