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Google Summer of Code - 2024 Projects

Current State

The information on this page is still to be populated through the duration of the program.

Coding officially begins - 27 May
Midterm evaluation - 8 - 12 July
Final submission - 26 August - 2 September

Communication

Development Forum

All Blender and code related topics will go to the devtalk forum. Here contributors will also post their weekly reports, and can ask for feedback on topics or share intermediate results with everyone.

blender.chat

For real-time discussions between contributors and mentors. Weekly meetings will be scheduled here as well.

Projects

Google has granted six projects to the Blender Foundation.


Geometry Nodes: File Import Nodes

by Devashish Lal
Mentor: Hans Goudey
Code: tba

Improve Distributed Rendering & Task Execution

by David Zhang
Mentor: Sybren Stüvel
Code: tba

Improvements to the Blender macOS User Interface Experience

by Jonas Holzman
Mentor: Julian Eisel
Code: tba

Sample Sound Node

by Lleu Yang
Mentor: Jacques Lucke
Code: tba

Sprucing Up the Sequencer

by John Kiril Swenson
Mentor: Aras Pranckevičius
Code: tba

UV stitch Tool Improvements

by Anish Bharadwaj
Mentors: Campbell Barton
Code: tba