Hello,
Unfortunately Google decided to pick other projects this year, and Haiku will not participate into GSoC.
We will apply again next year.
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Thank you for sharing this - it was not surprising after your prediction about Haiku may not fit this year as Google stated as more students wanted to work on AI related open source developments …
… however despite that … it is really sad that prediction became true.
Have a more fruitable year 2026 than 2025 - until now !
The project may get another generous donation like last year’s precious gift to substitute this annual exciting event and also may come some arising development from an another direction.
I wish good luck to the project !
… to have such surprising evolution around Haiku that just caused Beta4/Bata5 goodies in row when several developments met in a lucky and supporting conclusion – especially related user applications or missed features that popped up lately for us.
Kudos and perseverance for developers - I hope some stuffs’ development will continue out of GSOC this year !
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That is not the only reason. They did a full review of everyone’s ideas listthis year including comparison with the previous year. And our ideas list could be a not better in at least twoareas:
- there are several ideas that have been there for years without any changes. We should take time to reconsider these, maybe scale them down or explain them better so that beginners to Haiku undersand them better and know where to start
- each idea is supposed to come with a “possible mentors” list, which should help knowing who to contact. At this point, pretty much all ideas have just me and waddlesplash, or sometimes no one at all. This doesn’t give an impression that we have a lot of motivated mentors
more generally, some years they just decide to give a chance to new projects andthat means not accepting projects that have already participated several times in a row as we did recently. And also, maybe they prefer “umbrella” organizations which allow multiple projects to participate together - more participants in GSoC for less administrative work of registering each small organization.
Anyways, in case heople who wanted to participate in GSoC read this: we’re happy to still do the mentoring part of GSoC if you want, the only difference would be that you don’t get paid by Google. Of course I understand that doesn’t fit with everyone’s plans, but if you were really there for the experience working on opensource projects and not for the money, that part is still available.
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Slightly disappointing of course, but it was to be expected given the focus on AI.
Still a few operating systems on the projects list though, but they’re all bigger fish than we are.
I’m particularly disappointed because Haiku philosophy is interesting for me to explore more about, and when I read the idea list, I became more excited about continue the work on making a VirtualBox port for Haiku. This project intersects with many of my interests and values, and I was genuinely enthusiastic about contributing and being part of community within GSoC 2025 or beyond.
I haven’t introduced myself yet… I’m a 3rd year computer engineering student and I really like low level and systems programming—I’m into it with my soul. Unfortunately, I need to prioritize earning money for my college expenses, forcing me to look elsewhere despite my interest. If circumstances change and I’m able to share my time, I would be very happy to contribute to making this happen for Haiku, even if it requires working extra hours. I remain hopeful about future opportunities to collaborate with the Haiku community.
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There is still the possibility of applying to an Haiku-related project at another organization. I see for instance OpenBFS port for FreeBSD
https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCodeIdeas#Implement_native_OpenBFS_for_FreeBSD
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Sad to hear, that Haiku was not accepted.
I’ve just donated another 50€ to Haiku.
Feel free to use it to pay a litte gratification to students that still spend their free time on Haiku.
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Or help GCC: https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/SummerOfCode
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Unfortunate. My introduction to Haiku was through the organizations listed on the GSoC2024 page. But, I have been enjoying my time interacting with community since and hope to contribute code/documentation.
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we’re happy to still do the mentoring part of GSoC if you want, the only difference would be that you don’t get paid by Google.
that is exciting. Would it mirror the GSoC timeline? Are contributors supposed to submit a formal proposal much like GSoC?
I have an idea I want to propose. Looking forward to a great summer of code!
I don’t know if that’s necessary. I expect the interest from participants will be lower (only the ones who really want to work in Haiku will participate), and there isn’t really a need for a timeline and evaluations on our side. But if you think they would be useful to you, we can set some up.
In the end, this isn’t very different from the normal “people just find about Haiku and start hacking on it” way we normally gain new contributors. The main change would be explicitly assigning a mentor to guide you through the process and checking on your progress.
If there are a lot of people being interested, we may need to do some selection because the number of people willing to mentor someone like that isn’t unlimited.
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