> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://mariadb.com/docs/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://mariadb.com/docs/general-resources/community/contributing-participating/google-summers-of-code.md).

# Google Summer of Code

MariaDB has participated in [Google Summer of Code](https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/) since 2013. This section contains pages providing information for each year.

We believe we are making a better database that remains application compatible with MySQL. We also work on making LGPL connectors (currently [C](/docs/connectors/mariadb-connector-c.md), [ODBC](/docs/connectors/mariadb-connector-odbc.md), [Java](/docs/connectors/mariadb-connector-j.md), [Node.js](/docs/connectors/mariadb-connector-nodejs.md)) and on [MariaDB Galera Cluster](https://mariadb.com/docs/galera-cluster/), which allows you to scale your reads & writes. Lately, we also have [MariaDB ColumnsStore](/docs/analytics/mariadb-columnstore.md), which is a columnar storage engine, designed to process petabytes of data with real-time response to analytical queries.

## Project Ideas Pages:

* [Current GSoC 2026](/docs/general-resources/community/contributing-participating/google-summers-of-code/google-summer-of-code-2026.md)
* [GSoC 2025](/docs/general-resources/community/contributing-participating/google-summers-of-code/google-summer-of-code-2025.md)
* [GSoC 2024](/docs/general-resources/community/contributing-participating/google-summers-of-code/google-summer-of-code-2024.md)
* [GSoC 2023](/docs/general-resources/community/contributing-participating/google-summers-of-code/google-summer-of-code-2023.md)
* [GSoC 2022](/docs/general-resources/community/contributing-participating/google-summers-of-code/google-summer-of-code-2022.md)
* [GSoC 2021](/docs/general-resources/community/contributing-participating/google-summers-of-code/google-summer-of-code-2021.md)
* [GSoC 2020](/docs/general-resources/community/contributing-participating/google-summers-of-code/google-summer-of-code-2020.md)
* [GSoC 2019](/docs/general-resources/community/contributing-participating/google-summers-of-code/google-summer-of-code-2019.md)
* [GSoC 2018](/docs/general-resources/community/contributing-participating/google-summers-of-code/google-summer-of-code-2018.md)
* [GSoC 2017](/docs/general-resources/community/contributing-participating/google-summers-of-code/google-summer-of-code-2017.md)
* [GSoC 2016](/docs/general-resources/community/contributing-participating/google-summers-of-code/google-summer-of-code-2016.md)
* [GSoC 2015](/docs/general-resources/community/contributing-participating/google-summers-of-code/google-summer-of-code-2015.md)
* [GSoC 2014](/docs/general-resources/community/contributing-participating/google-summers-of-code/google-summer-of-code-2014.md)
* [GSoC 2013](/docs/general-resources/community/contributing-participating/google-summers-of-code/google-summer-of-code-2013.md)