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Apache Software Foundation

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The Foundation provides an established framework for intellectual property and financial contributions that simultaneously limits contributors potential legal exposure. Through a collaborative and meritocratic development process, Apache projects deliver enterprise-grade, freely available software products that attract large communities of users. The pragmatic Apache License makes it easy for all users, commercial and individual, to deploy Apache products.

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Project ideas

114 ideas on its 2026 ideas page; of the 15 that state a difficulty: 6 medium, 9 hard. Sizes: 1 small, 2 medium, 13 large. 36 mentors named.

  1. JSON Schema to Form UI for APISIX Dashboard
  2. [GSoC] Adaptive Metadata Indexing and ATLAS Integration in Airavata Data Catalog
  3. Integrate Custos SSH Signer with Apache Airavata Job Submission
  4. Airavata Interactive Session Management via Linkspan Integration
  5. Linkspan as a Managed Application in Airavata
  6. Interactive Session Experiment Tracking
  7. REST API for Interactive Sessions (airavata-http-server)
  8. Linkspan VFS as a Data Movement Provider
  9. Linkspan Changes (Minimal)
  10. CS-Bridge Changes (Client-Side)
  11. [GSoC] UI/UX development for Atomic, Molecular and Optical physics applications in a Community frame
  12. [GSoC] Automation of integrated computational services to generate data and training a prediction mo
  13. Dynamic Access Policy Engine Research & PoC
  14. SSH Signer Admin Portal & Allocation Management Dashboard
  15. Allocation Research Impact & Analytics Dashboard
  16. Allocation Governance POC Inspired by Cloud Management Platforms
  17. Dynamic Memory Management large
  18. Top K Nearest Queries Support
  19. Backup/restore utility for AsterixDB
  20. In-browser packaging of AsterixDB
  21. LLM Agent Protocols/Memory
  22. [GSoC 2026] CEP-59 Self-Draining Graceful Disconnect via cleanup() Callback
  23. [CEP-59] Implementation of In-Band Connection Draining (Graceful Disconnect)
  24. GSoC 2026 - Dubbo Lightweight Refactoring
  25. Exploring a Lightweight Runtime and Designing a Pluggable Architecture for Apache Dubbo-Go
  26. Core Enhancements (Priority P0)
  27. Ecosystem and Validation (Priority P1)
  28. Supporting Work (Priority P2)
  29. Phase 1: Analysis and Design
  30. Phase 2: Core Plugin Mechanism Implementation (P0)
  31. Phase 3: SPI Stabilization and Architecture Refactoring (P1)
  32. Phase 4: Extension Migration and Validation (P1)
  33. Phase 5: Testing, Documentation, and Finalization (P2)
  34. Refactoring and Capability Enhancement of the Dubbo-Go Metadata Subsystem
  35. Core Enhancements (Priority P0)
  36. Architecture and Reliability Improvements (Priority P1)
  37. Supporting Work (Priority P2)
  38. Phase 1: Analysis and Design
  39. Phase 2: Core Capability Implementation (P0)
  40. Phase 3: Architecture Refactoring and Reliability (P1)

Read the ideas page. Ideas are for scope reference; never copy one into a proposal.

History

Not in the public archive yet (its first year, or listed under another name).

On GitHub

100 repositories pushed to in the last year. Main languages: Java (49), Rust (8), Python (7), JavaScript (6), C (5), Scala (5).

Links and channels

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