Development / Summer of Code

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Since 2007, the MetaBrainz Foundation has been a regular participant in the Google Summer of Code program. We've had great success with the program, with some contributors remaining involved in the community afterwards, even going as far as to hire several of our past contributors (now mentors) as full-time employees.

If you're interested in becoming a GSoC contributor under the MetaBrainz Foundation, be sure to read up on Getting started.

Next Summer of Code:

2025

Our previous contributor projects have been:


  • Picard v2.0
  • Rating System in CritiqueBrainz
  • Hacking on ListenBrainz
  • Directly accessing MusicBrainz DB in CritiqueBrainz
  • A Job Running Client for AcousticBrainz
  • AcousticBrainz BigQuery data exploration
  • AcousticBrainz Dataset Creation Toolkit
  • Gamification of submission system
  • ListenBrainz: A submission API compatible with Last.fm scrobblers
  • Show tag search results in Picard
  • SOLR search server
  • AcousticBrainz datasets
  • Unified browse and search interface
  • CritiqueBrainz improvements
  • CritiqueBrainz
  • Events
  • Search server rewrite
  • Picard website
  • UI improvements
  • CritiqueBrainz
  • Places
  • Release editor improvements
  • internationalization
  • collections
  • iOS
  • log processing/statistics
  • Create a timeline graph (plus other statistics work)
  • Update Picard to make it NGS-ready

2010

  • Improve collections feature
  • Develop Mobile apps for iPhone and Android

2009

  • Implement NGS (stage 2)

2008

  • Implement NGS (stage 1)
  • Add collections feature

2007

  • Added music dashboard