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.

Plot of image data from FITS file

To get a further idea of what the projects were about, I looked at the most frequent terms that appeared in project titles.

Plot of image data from FITS file

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