What is GSOC?

The Google Summer of Code program ("GSoC") is designed to encourage student participation in open source development. Through GSoC, accepted student applicants will be paired with OWASP mentors that will guide them through their coding tasks.

Benefits to students include:

Gaining exposure to real-world software development scenarios
An opportunity for employment in areas related to their academic pursuits
Google will be offering successful student contributors a stipend, enabling them to focus on their coding projects for the duration of GSoC.

This program is done completely online. Students and mentors from more than 100 countries have participated in past years.

OWASP BLT's contributions and partnership with GSOC:

OWASP is an open community dedicated to enabling organizations to conceive, develop, acquire, operate, and maintain applications that can be trusted. OWASP has been an active participant in the Google Summer of Code program, providing students with the opportunity to contribute to various OWASP projects.
OWASP BLT (Bug Logging Tool) has been participating in the Google Summer of Code program for the past 5 consecutive years, from 2020 to 2024. OWASP BLT is an open-source platform dedicated to making the internet safer through community-driven bug reporting and collaboration. Users can report bugs, track issues, and collaborate with organizations to enhance security measures.
All students currently enrolled in an accredited institution are welcome to participate in the Google Summer of Code program, hopefully along with the OWASP Foundation.

GSOC 2025 Leaderboard

GSOC 2024 Leaderboard

GSOC Previous Projects:

GSOC Project Ideas 2024

GSOC Project Ideas 2023

GSOC Project Ideas 2022

GSOC Project Ideas 2021

GSOC Project Ideas 2020

Checkout Project Ideas for OWASP BLT

Past GSOC Events:

2023 GSOC Archive

Mentors:Abraham Aranguren, Aryan Prasad, Aryan Ranjan, Ben de Haan, Björn Kimminich, Christian Folini, DonnieBLT, fzipitria, Jannik Hollenbach, José Carlos Chávez, Mrigank Anand, Rick M, ShubhamPalriwala, Simon Bennetts, thc202, Timo Pagel, Viyat

2022 GSOC Archive

Mentors: Abraham Aranguren, Ade Yoseman Putra, Ankit Choudhary, Björn Kimminich, Dhiren Serai, Franziska, fzipitria, Glenn Ten Cate, Jannik Hollenbach, Rejah Rehim, Rick M, Saeed Dehqan, Sam Stepanyan, Simon Bennetts, Sparsh Agrawal, thc202, Timo Pagel, Viyat

2021 GSOC Archive

Mentors: 8f040, Abe, Abraham Aranguren, Ade Yoseman Putra, Ali Razmjoo Qalaei, Anshul Singhal, Ashrith N Shetty, Björn Kimminich, Damien Carol, Dhiren Devinder Serai, Glenn ten Cate, Jannik Hollenbach, madchap, Mohit Sharma-2, Rejah Rehim, Riccardo Cate, Rick M, Saeed Dehqan-1, Sam Stepanyan, Simon Bennetts, Sourav Badami, thc202

2020 GSOC Archive

Mentors: Abe, Abraham Aranguren, Ade Yoseman Putra, Adrian Winckles, Ali Razmjoo Qalaei, Björn Kimminich, Felipe Zipitria, Glenn ten Cate, Jannik Hollenbach, Mohit Sharma, Rejah Rehim A A, Rejah Rehim, Ricardo Pereira, Riccardo ten Cate, Rick M, S, securestep9, Simon Bennetts, Soham Marik, souravbadami, spyros, Sri Harsha G, Timo Pagel, Viyat Bhalodia

Blogs By Previous GSOC Contributors:

Shirish Jain's GSOC Journey with OWASP BLT

Shirish Jain's Profile

Aryan Ranjan's GSoC Voyage

Aryan Ranjan's Profile

Swapnil Shinde's OWASP BLT Report

Swapnil Shinde's Profile

Shubham Palriwala's GSOC Journey with OWASP Juice Shop

Akshay Behl's GSOC Journey with OWASP Nettacker

Chakshu Gupta's GSOC journey with OWASP Honeypot

Bishal Das's GSOC Learning journey with OWASP BLT

Bishal Das's Profile

Rishabh Keshan's GSOC Web3 journey with OWASP Juice Shop

Past GSoC Mentors

Donnie Brown (Lead Mentor) (All years)

2024: Swapnil Shinde (Django and blockchain mentor), Arkadii Yakovets (Python/Django mentor)
2023:Aryan Ranjan (Flutter and Django Mentor)
2022:Sourav Badami (Django Mentor), Rahul Badami (Payments Mentor), Ankit Choudhary (Flutter Mentor), Sparsh Agrawal (Flutter Mentor)
2021:Sourav Badami (Django Mentor)
2020:Sourav Badami (Django Mentor)