Recent GSoC projects and contributors

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It’s been an incredible way by which people all over the world can get opportunities to work with companies, creating openings that might not be available to them otherwise,” said Cheng, who has mentored several student contributors over the years.

Staff assign mini-projects designed to give students hands-on experience and a sense of accomplishment. Students are also included in team meetings, invited to give input and present their work, said Cheng.


Rakesh Chinta focused on building advanced features for the existing Chrome extension for the Wayback Machine (2017);
Zhengyue Cheng created a “map” of the web via the Wayback Machine (2018);
Salman Shah worked with the Open Library team to modernize phone number library and increase the coverage of its book catalog and improve website reliability (2018);
Kanchan Joshi improved site navigation for Archive.org (2019);
Giacomo Cignoni made a significant contribution with his BookReader Selection & Dark Mode project. He worked to give public domain works the ability to have text selection over the book page images (2020);
Tabish Shaikh helped improve the adoption of Open Library with his Adoption of BookLovers project – redesigning the Book Page and making it clearer what services were offered (2020);
Nolan Windham worked on the Open Book Genome Project. It centered on the ability for computers and machines to read a book on our behalf, and extract metadata that can then be made publicly useful to the world. Through the process, nearly 10,000 new books were added to the lending system (2021.