Systers, an Anita Borg Institute community : Increasing the number of women in computing fields and technology.
FOSSASIA : FOSSASIA is the premier Free and Open Source technology organization in Asia for developers, designers, start-ups, and contributors.
Mifos Initiative : FinTech non-profit leveraging the cloud, mobile, and open source community to deliver digital financial services to the world’s 2 billion poor and unbanked.
aimacode : This project provides implementations of the pseudocode algorithms in the textbook “Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach,” along with tutorial examples of algorithm usage.
BeagleBoard.org Foundation : Through Linux and other open source tools, BeagleBoard.org seeks to make enabling computers to interact with the physical world as simple as coding a web page.
Copyleft Games : We produce libraries, engines, frameworks, and development tools for producing games, especially as part of educational environments.
Python Software Foundation : Python is a popular high-level programming language used by scientists, developers, and many others who want to work more quickly and integrate systems more effectively.
Cadasta : Cadasta is working to build a future where, through technology and community partnership, land and resource rights are universally recognized and protected
CloudCV : CloudCV is a young open source platform to make AI research reproducible by making it easy for researchers to build, compare and share state-of-the-art AI algorithms with everyone.
KDE : The KDE community produces Free and Open Source Software and brings together artists, designers, programmers, translators, users, writers and other contributors from everywhere.
Mozilla : We’re Mozilla, the proudly non-profit champions of the Internet, helping to keep it healthy, open and accessible to all.
RoboComp : RoboComp is a cutting-edge open-source robotics framework providing tools to easily create, modify and manage robot software components.
SymPy : SymPy is a Python library for symbolic mathematics.
The Linux Foundation : The Linux Foundation is a non-profit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux. Hosting the Linux Kernel. OpenPrinting, Linux Standards Base, SPDX, …
Ruby on Rails : Learning to build a modern web application is daunting. Ruby on Rails makes it much easier and more fun. It includes everything you need to build fantastic applications.
Ruby Science Foundation : SciRuby is oriented towards providing science and visualization infrastructure for the Ruby Programming Language. We develop and maintain several libraries for this purpose.
There are many more organisations with a much larger number of projects present that should be explored but the above list is good if you are a beginner and unsure of where to start. For more information on getting your feet wet in the wide pool of Open Source and GSoC, refer to http://blog.codingninjas.in/2017/02/05/attempting-google-summer-of-code/.
This list was curated from my previous experience as a mentor in GSoC 2016 with Systers, An Anita Borg Institute, an experience I hope to repeat this year.
Feel free to leave any comments, questions and doubts in the comments section below!
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