IDEAS
Explore the world of open-source possibilities with AOSSIE's Idea List. As part of Google Summer of Code 2026, we offer a unique opportunity for developers to explore new ideas, a wide variety of projects for developers to choose from and contribute to. From developing new features to fixing critical bugs, our idea list is your go-to destination for finding your next big project and kickstart your open-source journey.
2026 Ideas
Agora On Chain
Agora Blockchain is a decentralized voting platform built to improve electoral integrity, transparency, and accessibility. Traditional voting systems, both online and offline, suffer from centraliz...
Baby Nest
BabyNest is a React Native pregnancy and infant care tracking application with a Flask backend, SQLite database, and an AI chat assistant.
Bot
As our organizations are becoming larger, it is becoming increasingly more time-consuming and harder to manually manage our Discords and our Github orgs.
Choice
Many of our projects have external dependencies on services and APIs that are often closed-source and subscription-based, such as AI LLMs, translation services, map providers. Even when these exter...
D I T
In GSoC 2025 we created two project that aim to increase trust among people in a decentralized way: TNT (Trust Network Tokens) and VouchMe (OnChain Testimonials).
Dev Ops
Many of our repos were created with limited resources and thus tasks related to DevOps (e.g. setting up CI/CD workflows and github actions, releases, changelogs, licenses, readmes, tests, badges, t...
Djed
Our Djed stablecoin initiative spans multiple Solidity implementations and supporting services. Two protocol variants exist today: * Djed Osiris – implemented with ETH backing and ERC-20 backing. T...
Doc Pilot
Build a new age EMR application using conversational AI at its best. Existing EMR solutioning is Age-old! Doctors resist the overwhelming software which is high on costs and difficult to operate. L...
Edu A I
AOSSIE has a long tradition of creating apps that use AI to enable education that predates the current AI hype. For example, Mind The Word was developed in 2011 and uses AI-based translation to hel...
Edu Aid
EduAid is highly effective at generating high-quality quizzes from educational content. Currently, these quizzes are primarily consumed as static artifacts, which works well for individual and asyn...
Ellena
Project Size: Large Ell-ena is an AI-powered product manager that automates task management by creating to-do items, tickets, and transcribing meetings while maintaining full work context.
Ergo
In GSoC 2025, many contributors created new crypto projects for EVM-compatible blockchains. We have a long and fruitful relationship with the Ergo blockchain,
Fate
Fate Protocol is a decentralized, perpetual prediction market that operates continuously without expiration. It replaces traditional order books with a dual-vault system—where users buy and sell bu...
Fundraising Monetization
AOSSIE is a not-for-profit charity in Australia, capable of receiving tax-deductible donations. Yet, we have never tried to raise funding besides the funds provided by Google Summer of Code. Furthe...
Gluon
In Orb, all price feeds are registered via the Factory contract, and an Explorer already surfaces contract addresses and metadata. Inside StableCoin.sol we currently store pythOracleParam (contract...
Karma
Fate Protocol is a decentralized, perpetual prediction market that operates continuously without expiration. It allows users to buy bullCoins, if the think that a given price will go up and bearCoi...
L L M
In 2025 we had many projects that used LLMs and we ended depending on LLMs that were closed-source, paid, privately trained... Even when there are models where the weights are open, it is often unc...
Landing Pages
Many of our projects exist merely as a github repo. This is adequate for projects whose target audience are developers, but not for projects intended for end-users.
Less Cloud
Computers are universal machines and software are instructions that make these machines operate as we want. In the context of software, freedom is being able to make the computers operate as we wan...
Mini Chain
In 2025, AOSSIE completed many projects deployed on EVM chains and on Ergo. AOSSIE also has, among its mentors and members, people who have worked at some of the most well-known blockchains.
Neurotrack
Project Size: Large Neurotrack is an innovative platform that leverages artificial intelligence to support the detection, assessment, and management of neurodevelopmental conditions including Autis...
Orb
OrbOracle already exposes reliable on-chain feeds such as ETH/USD and USD/INR. Today, adding a new pair like ETH/INR or ETH/ETC requires deploying new aggregators or manually relaying values, which...
Order Book Auction Exchange
In GSoC 2025, we have built an auction platform (Hammer) and an auction-based liquidity pool exchange (Maelstrom). Auctions are a key mechanism for proper price discovery and thus are essential for...
Org Explorer
As an organization gets larger, in number of repos and number of contributors, it becomes increasingly harder to keep track of all activities within the organization
Phoenix
Most not-for-profit open-source organizations face challenges with the long-term maintenance of their projects, especially considering that software engineering evolves rapidly. AOSSIE, as a 10-yea...
Picto Py
Project Size: Large PictoPy is an open-source, privacy-focused desktop application designed for intelligent photo management using AI-powered face recognition and object detection. Unlike cloud-bas...
Rein
Rein is a cross-platform, LAN-based remote input controller. It allows touchscreen devices to act as a trackpad and keyboard for a desktop system through a locally served web interface.
Resonate
Resonate is an Open Source Social Voice Platform ideated and built as an alternative to other offerings like Clubhouse and X Spaces. While the app is nearing the limit of features that can be added...
S E O
Most of our projects need improved marketing and SEO (Search Engine Optimization), so that they are more easily discoverable by users and so that users are more likely to want to use our projects. ...
Smart Notes
Project Size: Large Smart Notes is an open-source, privacy-focused desktop app for personal knowledge management. It uses AI-powered semantic search and RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) to help...
Stable Pay
StablePay currently processes payments only for Djed Osiris, even though Solidity implementations for Djed Shu, Tefnut, and Isis are emerging. The widget, merchant dashboard, and demo sites need to...
U I
UI/UX is a rapidly evolving field. From time to time, we need to update the UI/UX pf some of our projects to align them with the latest trends and expectations.
Zplit
While there are a number of Applications available today that offer the functionality to split group finances between users for easy tracking and settlement, the most popular ones leave a lot of fe...
Have an Idea?
We are always open to new and innovative ideas. If you have a project in mind that aligns with our mission, we'd love to hear from you.