GIMP / Krita / Inkscape / Graphite / Blender / FreeCAD / Kdenlive / Mixxx Google Summer of Code 2025 projects announced

Google Summer of Code 2025 projects have just been announced. As is usual in the last 20 years or so, Google is paying a reward to students for improving free and open-source software.

I went ahead and harvested the list of all the relevant projects so you don’t have to. Let’s take a look at what’s likely coming later this year. I’m intentionally keeping this list concise and linking to project pages so you can explore details when you feel like it.

Graphics and design

Both GIMP, Inkscape, Krita (via KDE), and OpenPrinting (via The Linux Foundation) are long-time participants that gained a lot from the program. For Graphite, this is their second time.

GIMP

Graphite

Inkscape

Krita

Ross Rosales will add a floating action bar for layers to access commonly used actions, especially for non-keyboard users (think running Krita on touch devices).

OpenPrinting

3D and animation

This year, there are no rendering engines like Appleseed in the roster.

Blender

Synfig

  • Abdelhadi Wael will develop a brush tool and a basic prush profile editor.
  • Nitish Itankar will create a new macOS app bundle built automatically, to replace the old error-prone Bash script.

CAD

Just like the last year, FreeCAD applied separately from the BRL-CAD umbrella organization. That seems to work for everybody.

BRL-CAD

FreeCAD

IfcOpenShell

Sayan Jyoti Das will develop a web application to create and check BIM project exchange requirements. This will simplify writing Information Delivery Specification (IDS) data.

Manifold

Trzeth will enhance 3D mesh offset for Manifold.

OpenSCAD

Sparsh N will add a modern MSVC build support for Windows.

Video

All three relevant organizations are long-time participants at GSoC. As usual, Kdenlive applied through KDE.

Kdenlive

Ajay Chauhan will improve Kdenlive timeline markers by introducing duration-based markers that define a clear start and end time.

FFmpeg

VideoLAN

Audio / Mixxx


Overall, a very nice selection of projects! Thoughts?


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