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Blender Foundation

The Freedom to Create

Blender is a free and open source 3D creation suite, providing individuals and small teams a complete pipeline for 3D graphics, modeling, animation and games. Blender is being made by 100s of active volunteers from all around the world; by studios and individual artists, professionals and hobbyists, scientists and students, vfx experts and animators, and so on. All of them are united by an interest to have access to a fully free/open source 3D creation pipeline. Blender Foundation supports and facilitates these goals - even employs a staff for that - but fully depends on the online community to achieve it.

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Project ideas

12 ideas on its 2026 ideas page; of the 12 that state a difficulty: 2 easy, 9 medium, 1 hard. Sizes: 2 small, 2 medium, 8 large. 6 mentors named.

VSE: OpenTimelineIO support¶ large medium
VSE: Mask Editing in VSE Preview¶ large medium
VSE: Strip Transition Gizmo¶ large medium
VSE: New Sound Modifiers¶ large medium
Compositor: New Nodes from Geometry nodes¶ small easy
Compositor/Image Editor: Improve tools for compositing¶ medium medium
Improved Mesh Smoothing¶ large medium
Improved Edge Loop Editing¶ large hard
Improved Face Filling Tools¶ large medium
Replace Legacy Curve Evaluation for 3D Text¶ large medium
General Brush Engine Improvements¶ medium medium
Improving Regression Test Coverage¶ small easy

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

History

In GSoC since 2016, 11 years. Projects per year: '16: 8, '17: 5, '18: 5, '19: 7, '20: 9, '21: 8, '22: 3, '23: 5, '24: 6, '25: 8, '26: 8.

On GitHub

No GitHub organization found in its official listing.

Links and channels

Website: https://www.blender.org
Ideas page: https://developer.blender.org/docs/programs/gsoc/ideas/
Contributor guide: https://developer.blender.org/docs/programs/gsoc/
Source code: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender
Mailing list: https://devtalk.blender.org/c/contributing-to-blender/summer-of-code/15
Chat: https://blender.chat/channel/gsoc-2026

go deeper in your terminal

git-into-gsoc org "Blender Foundation" --shortlist
git-into-gsoc repos "Blender Foundation"
git-into-gsoc issues --org "Blender Foundation"

or ask your assistant:
"Which Blender Foundation repositories merge
newcomers' pull requests, and which beginner
issues are still free?"

Those commands read live data: which repositories merge outside pull requests, and which beginner issues nobody has claimed. Install in two minutes.