Debian welcomes the 2025 GSOC contributors/students

[NewsBot]

A new Debian blog post/announcement has been posted!

We are very excited to announce that Debian has selected nine contributors to work under mentorship on a variety of projects with us during the Google Summer of Code.

Here is a list of the projects and students, along with details of the tasks to be performed.

---

Project: Quality assurance and continuous integration for biological and medical applications inside Debian

• Intern: Harish Chavre

Deliverables of the project: Continuous integration tests for Debian Med applications lacking a test, Quality Assurance review and bug fixing if issues might be uncovered.

---

Project: Device-specific Tweaks Management

• Intern: Mohammed ElDegwi

Deliverables of the project: Analysis and discussion of the current state of device tweaks management in Debian and Mobian. Proposal for a unified, run-time approach. Packaging of this service and tweaks data/configuration for at least one device.

---

Project: Enhancing Debian packages with ROCm GPU acceleration

• Interns: Spaarsh, utk4r-sh

Deliverables of the project: New Debian packages with GPU support. Enhanced GPU support within existing Debian packages. More autopackagetests running on the Debian ROCm CI.

---

Project: Make Debian for Raspberry Pi Build Again

• Interns: Kurva Prashanth

Deliverables of the project: Refreshing th...

Get the full details here: Debian welcomes the 2025 GSOC contributors/students - Bits from Debian