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Learning Equality

Building equity in education to transform lives

Learning Equality is an education technology nonprofit focused on fostering student-centered learning and advancing organizations working with underserved teachers and learners globally. Through community-driven innovation and strategic partnerships, we provide offline-first, open-source digital tools and implementation support to help them thrive. We create and support open-source technology that directly and focally addresses the infrastructural and resource equity gaps that further marginalize learners with limited Internet. We started by enabling offline access to Khan Academy's videos and exercises and grew to become a key player in the global education technology landscape. For the past 13 years we’ve focused on boosting learning outcomes in some of the most challenging contexts, supporting disconnected learning in refugee camps, rural schools, out-of-school programs, and more. Learning Equality develops and maintains Kolibri, an adaptable set of open tools specially designed to support teaching and learning with tech but without the Internet for the third of the world that still lacks access to connectivity. Kolibri is centered around an offline-first learning platform that …

  • python
  • javascript
  • django
  • vue.js
  • education
  • distributed databases
  • offline
  • learning

Project ideas

5 ideas on its 2026 ideas page; of the 5 that state a difficulty: 3 medium, 2 hard. Sizes: 5 medium. 8 mentors named.

  1. Introduce user-generated UI themes in Kolibri to support accessibility and customization medium medium
  2. Implement an accessible, multi-select dropdown component medium medium
  3. Update EPub rendering to a safely sandboxed viewer, using the maintained foliate-js library medium medium
  4. Learner-Facing QTI Interactions medium hard
  5. Editing of QTI question types medium hard

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

History

In GSoC since 2021, 6 years. Projects per year: '21: 1, '22: 3, '23: 3, '24: 4, '25: 5, '26: 3.

On GitHub

10 repositories pushed to in the last year. Main languages: Python (6), JavaScript (1), Makefile (1), Vue (1).

Links and channels

go deeper in your terminal
git-into-gsoc org "Learning Equality" --shortlist
git-into-gsoc repos "Learning Equality"
git-into-gsoc issues --org "Learning Equality"
or ask your assistant:
"Which Learning Equality 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.