I am delighted to announce that I am contributing to GNOME Crosswords as part of the Google Summer of Code 2025 program. My project primarily aims to add printing support to Crosswords, with some additional stretch goals. I am being mentored by Jonathan Blandford , Federico Mena Quintero , and Tanmay Patil .

The Days Ahead

During my internship, I will be refactoring the puzzle rendering code to support existing and printable use cases, adding clues to rendered puzzles, and integrating a print dialog into the game and editor with crossword-specific options. Additionally, I should implement an ipuz2pdf utility to render puzzles in the IPUZ format to PDF documents.

Beyond the internship, I am glad to be a member of the GNOME community and look forward to so much more. In the coming weeks, I will be sharing updates about my GSoC project and other contributions to GNOME. If you are interested in my journey with GNOME and/or how I got into GSoC, I implore you to watch out for a much longer post coming soon.

Appreciation

Many thanks to Hans Petter Jansson , Federico Mena Quintero and Jonathan Blandford , who have all played major roles in my journey with GNOME and GSoC.