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Eclipse Foundation

The Global Open Source Foundation

The Eclipse Foundation provides our global community of individuals & organizations with a mature, scalable, and business-friendly environment for OSS collaboration and innovation. Eclipse is an open source community that's focused around key principles of transparency, openness, and vendor neutrality: the work that we do is done in a manner that can be observed by anybody with an interest; project teams welcome new ideas, and invites others to participate; and vendor neutrality ensures that no single vendor can dominate a project and that everybody plays by the same set of rules (a so-called "level playing field"). Naturally, Eclipse projects are also all about the code. With over three hundred and sixty (https://projects.eclipse.org/) open source projects covering a diverse set of of technologies, there's something here for everybody. Eclipse projects build technology in areas such as Internet of Things (https://projects.eclipse.org/technology-type/internet-things), Programming Languages and IDE (https://projects.eclipse.org/technology-type/language), and Runtimes (https://projects.eclipse.org/technology-type/runtime) like Jetty and EE4J (http://www.eclipse.org/ee4j) (currently …

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tools
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iot & edge

Project ideas

Its ideas page could not be split into separate ideas; read it yourself.

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

History

In GSoC since 2016, 10 years. Projects per year: '16: 11, '17: 10, '18: 7, '19: 10, '20: 7, '22: 5, '23: 6, '24: 5, '25: 5, '26: 6.

On GitHub

2 repositories pushed to in the last year.

Links and channels

Website: https://www.eclipse.org/
Ideas page: https://gitlab.eclipse.org/eclipsefdn/emo-team/gsoc-at-the-ef/-/issues/?sort=created_date&state=opened&label_name%5B%5D=GSoC%202026&first_page_size=100
Contributor guide: https://gitlab.eclipse.org/eclipsefdn/emo-team/gsoc-at-the-ef/-/blob/main/README.md
Source code: https://github.com/eclipse
Mailing list: https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/soc-dev
Email: emo@eclipse-foundation.org

go deeper in your terminal

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

or ask your assistant:
"Which Eclipse 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.