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Published on by Eeshu Yadav
For this year's Google Summer of Code I worked with OpenWISP on the firmware upgrader, mentored by Federico Capoano (nemesifier), Gagan Deep (pandafy) and Oliver Kraitschy (okraits). Last year's GSoC brought mass upgrades and real-time progress tracking to the firmware upgrader. My job this year was to take that further …
Published on by Mohammed Atif
Still feels unreal sometimes that I got to work with OpenWISP during Google Summer of Code. These past 5 months have taught me a lot about how many things go into a project of this scale, and how much a single review comment can teach you. I am grateful to …
Published on by Deepanshu Sahu
Coming back to Google Summer of Code for a second time has been an extremely rewarding experience. Over the past three months I worked with OpenWISP on bringing mass command execution to the platform, so that operators can manage large networks with a single operation instead of repeating the same …
Published on by Pushpit Kamboj
Participating in Google Summer of Code had been a dream of mine since my freshman year, and I am glad that I got to live that dream with OpenWISP. Over the course of the program, I worked on improving the flexibility of OpenWISP Monitoring by adding support for more time-series …
Published on by Sarthak Tyagi
Google Summer of Code with OpenWISP has easily been one of the highlights of my journey as a developer. Over the last three months I worked on bringing standalone X.509 certificate generation to the platform, which gave me the chance to explore unfamiliar corners of the stack, take on …
Published on by Federico Capoano
We are excited to announce that the latest release of OpenWISP is now available!
This release brings major improvements to maps, firmware management, device location data, more consistency, more REST API endpoints, and loads of bug fixes.
Published on by Federico Capoano Deepanshu Sahu Eeshu Yadav Mohammed Atif Sarthak Tyagi Pushpit Kamboj
We are halfway through Google Summer of Code 2026 and the OpenWISP projects are already taking shape.
This post gives a quick tour of what has landed so far, what is still being reviewed, and what each project is going to make easier for OpenWISP users in the next iterations …
Published on by Federico Capoano
If you have ever contributed to OpenWISP, you have probably met flaky CI. A test passes on your machine, fails on CI, then passes again when you re-run the job. Most OpenWISP modules are Django applications with Selenium browser tests, and over time …
Published on by Alexandre Vincent
At Stellar Telecommunications, we bring resilient connectivity across networks to mobility, enterprise, and governments, leveraging the combined strength of all terrestrial and satellite networks. We offer software, data plans, and all-inclusive options for unbreakable and sovereign connectivity needs.
As we've scaled, we've relied on open-source tools, particularly OpenWISP, to manage …
Published on by Federico Capoano
A week ago, Google announced that 185 open source organizations who have been selected for the Google Summer of Code 2026, one of the biggest GSoCs ever.
I am happy to announce that, for the tenth consecutive year, OpenWISP has been accepted into this program! Over the past 9 years …