Projects which have participated in all 11 years of GSoC

[Fyodor <fyodor () nmap org>]

Hi folks!  I'm not sure if this brief research will interest anyone other
than me but ...

As you may have heard, Google recently announced the good news that they
will be running the Summer of Code program again in 2016 for their 12th
year.  That is great news for us (Nmap Project) and we will certainly apply
again.  After all, we've participated in all 11 of the previous programs,
culminating in the success of all five of our students this year!

That got me thinking: Of the 515+ projects which Google mentions have
participated in Google Summer of Code every single year?  To answer that we
start with the 39 who participated in the first year:
https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2005/

I made a list of those and then compared each of the following years,
removing organizations which didn't participate that year.  I tried to
track name changes such as Gaim to Pidgin and Jabber to XMPP. Here are the
results:

2005: 39 projects to start out with as listed at
https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2005/
2006: 37 of those still standing. Semedia and OpenMeteo project drop from
the list.
2007: 31 still stand. This drop of 6 was the largest of any year. Horde,
JXTA, LiveJournal, Project Looking Glass, Monotone, and The Perl Foundation
drop from the list.
2008: 28 still standing. Handhelds.org, OpenOffice.org, and Ubuntu drop
from the list.
2009: 23 still standing. This was another big drop-out year losing Gallery,
Internet2, XMPP, LispNYC, and OSCAR
2010: 18 left. Drops are Fedora, Joomla, WinLibre, Xwiki and technically
Subversion since they merge with Apache (still on the list).
2011: 17 left: The only drop is Pidgin
2012: 16 left. The only drop is Codehaus
2013: 15 left. Drupal drops.
2014: 14 left. The only drop is NetBSD
2015: 10 remain after Blender, Inkscape, Mozilla, and SAMBA drop.

So out of the 515+ projects which have participated in GSoC over the years,
there are only 10 of us who have done it every single year.  And here's the
list (drum roll please!):

Apache Software Foundation
FreeBSD
GNOME
Google (Open Source Programs Office, Google Kubernetes, etc.)
KDE
Mono Project
Nmap Security Scanner
Portland State University
Python Software Foundation
Wine Project

I'd say we're in pretty good company!
-Fyodor

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