Google’s summer of code is an annual initiative where students work for three months on developing open source software with mentors from participating organisations. This years list of open source projects has been announced with several related to 3D and graphics industries including 3DTK point cloud processing software, Appleseed renderer, FFmpeg, Godot game engine, VLC, Inkscape, The Processing Foundation, and of course Blender. See the full list on Google’s Summer of Code website.