GSoC 2026 Intro

[nemesifier]

In recent weeks, several similar questions have been raised by new GSoC contributors, which has made it harder to keep discussions efficient and focused.

For this reason, I am creating this thread as a single place where newcomers can ask questions and clarify doubts. Any new threads on the same topics may be closed and redirected here.

Please follow these general guidelines to help keep collaboration smooth and productive:

• A discussion thread for each GSoC idea is available. Please ask any questions you have there.
• Join and follow the development chat
• Carefully read the contributing guidelines
• Carefully read our GSoC guidelines
• Start with small bug fixes, minor improvements, dependency updates, small features, eg:
  • WiFi-Login-Pages dependency maintenance
  • WiFi-Login-Pages unused dependencies
  • Work for improving our release process
  • Issues Listed in the Contributors' Board, especially the issues listed on top
• Avoid beginning with complex or large changes, as these often increase review and maintenance overhead rather than reducing it
• Before asking for review, make sure your pull request really resolves the issue and the automated test suite and QA checks pass
• If you are implementing UI fixes, it's mandatory to include screenshots and short screencasts demonstrating your PR really solves the issue, because we're flooded with autogenerated PRs that do nothing but waste our time, with a few screenshots and screencasts we can easily understand if your PR is worth looking into
• Write messages in the chat genuinely by hand, avoid AI autogenerated texts as this comes across as fake and zero effort
• We're not looking just for pull requests, we're looking for active community members to join us and help us grow
• AI/agentic slop and unsolicited PRs will be closed without much explanation.

Thank you for your cooperation and interest in contributing to OpenWISP.

Please keep in mind that due to the volume of interested participants, we won't be able to always respond in a timely manner.

Let's stick to questions or feedback, please let's avoid replying with "thank you" or other replies that add no value to the discussion, such messages will be deleted to avoid generating needless noise.

[pushpitkamboj]

Wanted to check if the org has thought of which projects can be potentially part of GSOC?
I had few suggestions for this. But it depends what are the near future priority for the org.

[nemesifier]

The GSoC project ideas are currently being worked on and will be based on the Current Roadmap, see also Roadmap to 2030: Feedback #1183.

[nemesifier]

Updates:

• OpenWISP is an accepted mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code 2026 🎉
• Idea list for 2026

[okraits]

I think there is an error on the ideas page in the section General suggestions and warnings in the third point:

Applicants who have either shown to have or have shown to be fast learners for the required hard and soft skills by contributing to OpenWISP have a lot more chances of being accepted

I think there is something missing in the first part of the sentence.

[nemesifier]

PRs to fix it are welcome, should be easy: https://github.com/openwisp/openwisp-docs/blob/master/developer/gsoc-ideas-2026.rst

[nemesifier]

Update! I created a discussion thread for each GSoC idea. Please ask any questions you have there.

[Sohaibkundi2]

Hi everyone! I'm Sohaib, a full-stack JS developer (React/Node/Next.js), interested in the netjsongraph.js GSoC 2026 project.
I've set up the local dev environment, explored all the demos, and just submitted my first PR removing the broken node expand/fold example from issue #492.
I noticed the 6 issues listed in the 2025 GSoC idea page are now closed. Could the mentors share which open issues are the targets for 2026? I can see #402 has the gsoc-idea label, are there additional targets?
Looking forward to contributing more...

[nemesifier]

There's no GSoC project available for netjsongraph.js this year.

[Sohaibkundi2]

Thanks for the clarification
I’m still interested in contributing to netjsongraph.js, even outside of GSoC

[855princekumar]

Hi everyone,

I'm Prince Kumar, interested in contributing to OpenWISP for GSoC 2026.

I recently submitted a PR fixing duplicate check creation and async handling in openwisp-monitoring:
openwisp/openwisp-monitoring#769

While working on it, I got familiar with Django models, Celery tasks, Docker setup, and CI debugging.

I'm exploring the "time-series database clients" idea and had a couple of questions:

• Should I focus mainly on completing the existing Elasticsearch work?
• For InfluxDB 2.0, is the expectation to extend the current implementation or build it separately?

I'll keep contributing and learning in parallel. Would appreciate any guidance