This post looks at the trends in Google Summer of Code 2016, with the main motivation of helping out students applying for next year. I have made the code that I used for this post open-source here . It provides a brief API to obtain custom statistics regarding projects and organizations. I have obtained parsed data from here .
The bar chart below shows number of students accepted by top organizations last year.
To get a further idea of what the projects were about, I looked at the most frequent terms that appeared in project titles.
And, here is a list of all organizations in descending order.
53 Python Software Foundation
50 Apache Software Foundation
37 KDE
30 FOSSASIA
25 Debian Project
23 R project for statistical computing
22 OSGeo - The Open Source Geospatial Foundation
22 Systers , an Anita Borg Institute Community
21 GNOME
18 GNU Project
15 National Resource for Network Biology ( NRNB )
15 FreeBSD
14 Eclipse Foundation
13 Ruby
13 OpenCV
13 Mozilla
13 WSO2
13 International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility
12 The Apertium Project
12 The Julia Language
12 Berkman Center for Internet and Society
12 CERN SFT
12 Computational Science and Engineering at TU Wien
12 The Honeynet Project
11 Drupal
11 LibreOffice
11 The Linux Foundation
10 OpenMRS
10 Blender Foundation
10 MariaDB
10 Fedora Project
10 Java Pathfinder Team
10 JBoss Community
10 CiviCRM
9 BRL - CAD
9 Scala
9 LabLua
9 jQuery Foundation
9 RTEMS Project
9 Freifunk
8 Open Bioinformatics Foundation
8 OpenAstronomy
8 SymPy
8 The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure
8 Wikimedia Foundation
8 dbpediaspotlight
7 Open Source Robotics Foundation
7 The NetBSD Foundation
7 Health Information Systems Programme
7 Beam Community
7 Indic Project
7 NumFOCUS
7 Open Genome Informatics
7 Mifos Initiative
7 BeagleBoard . org
7 FFmpeg
7 TEAMMATES National University of Singapore
7 Sustainable Computing Research Group ( SCoRe )
7 The Tor Project
7 Catrobat
7 MetaBrainz Foundation
6 Sage Mathematical Software System
6 mlpack : a scalable C ++ machine learning library
6 The STE || AR Group
6 CCExtractor Development
6 MIT Media Lab
6 OpenStreetMap
6 OWASP Foundation
6 Red Hen Lab
6 openSUSE
6 QEMU
6 Portland State University
6 Robocomp
6 AOSSIE
6 Biomedical Informatics , Emory University
6 Sugar Labs
6 Joomla
5 Stony Brook University Biomedical Informatics
5 GNU Octave
5 KolibriOS
5 Xapian Search Engine Library
5 Gentoo Foundation
5 PRISM Model Checker
5 lowRISC
5 Ceph
5 GitHub
5 BuildmLearn
5 The syslog - ng project
5 BioJS
5 Computational Biology University of Nebraska - Lincoln
5 Scilab Enterprises
5 Jenkins Project
5 Nmap Security Scanner
5 Public Lab
5 cBioPortal for Cancer Genomics
5 Orange Data Mining Fruitful & Fun
4 MuseScore
4 Moodle
4 ReactOS
4 Plone Foundation
4 D Foundation
4 Libvirt
4 Canadian Centre for Computational Genomics ( C3G ) - Montreal node
4 Ruby Science Foundation
4 P2PSP . org
4 Shogun Machine Learning Toolbox
4 Homebrew
4 ASCEND
4 strace
4 Liquid Galaxy Project
4 Inclusive Design Institute
4 TimVideos . us
4 ScummVM
3 Free and Open Source Silicion Foundation
3 Physical Web Project
3 McGill Space Institute
3 CloudCV
3 Open Ephys
3 MovingBlocks
3 coreboot
3 GNU Mailman
3 ownCloud
3 Open Chemistry
3 Zulip Open Source Project
3 The Wine Project
3 Discourse
3 Soletta Project
3 Vert . x
3 Mobile Robot Programming Toolkit ( MRPT )
3 Global Alliance for Genomics & Health
3 North Initiative for Geospatial Open Source Software GmbH
3 Timelab Technologies Ltd .
3 aimacode
3 Celluloid
3 TARDIS - SN
3 ModSecurity
3 Distributed and Unified Numerics Environment ( DUNE )
3 Gambit - Software Tools for Game Theory
3 radare
3 MBDyn , Department of Aerospace Science and Technology at Politecnico di Milano
3 Urban Energy Systems Laboratory , Empa
3 gnss - sdr
3 Netfilter project
3 Copyleft Games
3 Green Navigation
3 Mixxx DJ Software
3 VideoLAN / VLMC Project
3 GNU Radio
3 vitrivr
2 Oppia Foundation
2 Boston University / XIA
2 gRPC
2 Genes , Genomes and Variation
2 GPAC
2 Matrix . org
2 OpenKeychain ( OpenPGP for Android )
2 Sigmah
2 Classical Language Toolkit
2 Inkscape
2 The Center for Connected Learning and Computer - Based Modeling
2 Peragro
2 Performance Co - Pilot
2 X . Org Foundation
2 Chapel
2 Unitex / GramLab
2 ArchC
2 Open Detection
1 Wayland
1 PLASMA - UMass
1 Git
1 CVXPY
1 Django Software Foundation
1 Ganeti
1 OSU Open Source Lab
1 XWiki
1 JSK Robotics Laboratory
1 The Monarch Initiative
1 FOSDEM VZW