GSoC 2026 Projects

Project ideas and proposals for GSoC 2026.

Project Ideas

GSoC 2026 Proposals

15 projects

AI-Driven Printer Compatibility and Recommendation Portal: Printer Data Intelligence & ML Pipeline

1 contributor, large-size (350 hours), Level of difficulty: Hard

AI-Driven Printer Compatibility and Recommendation Portal: Intelligent Printer Discovery & Recommendation Web Interface

1 contributor, large-size (350 hours), Level of difficulty: Intermediate–Hard

Automated and LLM-Assisted Fuzz Harness Generation for OpenPrinting Projects

1 contributor, large-size (350 hours), Level of difficulty: Hard

TillJiongchiZixuan

Build a Full Print System Testing Pipeline

1 contributor, large-size (350 hours), Level of difficulty: Hard

CI Testing programs for libpappl-retrofit and libppd

1 contributor full-size (350 hours), Level of difficulty: Intermediate

Cloud-Native Packaging for CUPS and Printer Applications

1 contributor, large-size (350 hours), Level of difficulty: Intermediate

Mentors:KyleMohammadSonali+1

COSMIC Desktop: Printer setup tool and print dialog

2 (perhaps 3) contributors full-size (350 hours), Level of difficulty: Hard

TillMichaelMintu+1

cups-filters: Create OCR filter to deliver scans as searchable PDFs

1 contributor medium-size (175 hrs), Level of difficulty: Intermediate

TillSahilDheeraj

Extend PDFio to be a PDF renderer/displayer

1 contributor large-size (350 hours), Level of difficulty: Hard

Fuzz/Test go-cpython

1 contributor, large-size (350 hours), Level of difficulty: Intermediate

KDE Print Manager: Completing CUPS 3.x support and Printer Application integration

1 contributor full-size (350 hours), Level of difficulty: Hard

Porting OpenPrinting Software to Zephyr

1 contributor, large-size (350 hours), Level of difficulty: Intermediate

Mentors:IulianaHubertAkarshan+1

system-config-printer vs. CUPS 3.x

1 contributor full-size (350 hours), Level of difficulty: Hard

TillSoumyadeepZdenek

System-Level Fuzzing for Parsing Features in OpenPrinting Projects

1 contributor, large-size (350 hours), Level of difficulty: Hard

TillJiongchiGünther

Validation of the IANA IPP Registrations Database

1 contributor, large-size (350 hours), Level of difficulty: Intermediate

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News & Updates

Blog posts related to GSoC 2026.

OpenPrinting News - Google Summer of Code 2026 - All contributors did a great start!

11 Contributors on COSMIC printing support, KDE vs. CUPS 3.x, printing under Zephyr, PDFio-based PDF renderer, CI and fuzz testing, printer/scanner simulation, driver lookup with local ML ...