Development/Summer of Code/2024

Are you interested in working with MetaBrainz in Google Summer of Code 2024? You're in the right place!

IMPORTANT NOTE: If you're arriving here after 18 March, 2024, you've missed your chance to apply with us. We will not consider applications from applicants who have not discussed their idea during the application discussion phase which ends March 18. We will make no exceptions.

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New to MetaBrainz?

The MetaBrainz Foundation has been set up to build community maintained databases and make them available in the public domain or under Creative Commons licenses.

New to MetaBrainz development and/or GSoC?

Getting started with GSoC

Projects

BookBrainz

	BookBrainz is a database of book metadata. We're interested in projects that help us reach our roadmap, and that add major functionalities to the website. Please see our ideas page for more details and information on getting started.
	Top 3 Desired Skills: Node.js, React, SQL
	Ideas page | Main page | Forums

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ListenBrainz

	An open source music website that allows users to import their listen history. One of the goals is for this data to be used for building open music recommendation systems.
	Languages/skills: Python, Flask, Postgres, Spark, React, Android
	Ideas page | Main page | Forums

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MusicBrainz

	A community-maintained open source music encyclopedia that collects music metadata and makes it available to the public.
	Languages/skills: JavaScript (React), PostgreSQL, Rust
	Ideas page | Main page | Forums

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MusicBrainz Picard

	MusicBrainz Picard is a cross-platform (Linux/Mac OS X/Windows) application written in Python and is the official MusicBrainz tagger. It supports the majority of audio file formats, is capable of using audio fingerprints (AcoustIDs), performing CD lookups and disc ID submissions, and it has excellent Unicode support.
	Languages/skills: Python, PyQt
	Ideas page | Main page | Forums