Thanks to our mentors, candidates, and various people who have provided input to the process, we have been assigned 4 out of 5 slots by Google for NixOS Foundation’s participation in Google Summer of Code 2026!
Project Title
Contributor
Assigned Mentor(s)
Remove the Build Hook Mechanism, Store Extensions
Amrit Amber
Lisanna Dettwyler
Improve CVE - Derivation Matching Accuracy, Data Integrity, and Observability in the Nixpkgs Tracker
Darshan Thakare
fricklerhandwerk
NixOS vars
prescientmoon
lassulus
Enrich Nixpkgs with correct PURLs for accurate SBOMs
Tanishq Palandurkar
Tristan Ross
Congratulations!
They’ve already been in contact with their mentors.
In the coming three weeks before coding starts, the GSoC contributors will start participating more in the community, so we can get to know each other and for them to get accustomed. Let’s give them a warm welcome
Welcome and congratulations to all the GSoC contributors! It’s great to have you here.
I’m particularly curious about the “NixOS Vars” project. Does anyone have a link to the original proposal or more details? I couldn’t find it in the GSoC repository.
The goal of the vars proposal is to have a generic backend-agnostic solution for secret deployment and generation (example usecases include the user password, host ssh keys, etc).
