I know what you did last summer: GSoC 2026 top 50 projects to check out
Google Summer of Code 2026's 12-week timeline wrapped final evaluations at the end of August, with shorter projects finishing earlier. This post reads the official projects page and Google's program announcements for scale, acceptance rates, and what is marked complete versus still active. It then ranks mentoring organizations by volume and highlights where the largest slots landed. The centerpiece is a personal list of 50 completed projects from orgs including Apache, Debian, Django, Git, the Linux Foundation, OWASP, and PSF. Bias is declared up front: security-related work, hardware, frameworks I use, and communities I am close to.
