Blog

News, updates, and announcements from the Open Transit Software Foundation.

· Ahmed Hossam

Getting Started with Maglev: Tips for New Contributors

I’m Ahmed Hossam, a Software Engineer at OTSF and a former contributor through GSoC 2024. For anyone interested in contributing to Maglev (the new Go-based server replacing the current Java-based OneB...

· Aaron Brethorst

Visualize Transit Usage Across Puget Sound

I’m excited to announce a new addition to the OneBusAway website: an interactive ridership map that visualizes how people are using the OneBusAway app throughout the Puget Sound region. See the Live ...

· Aaron Brethorst

Google Summer of Code 2026 Project Ideas

Caution: Please do not consider this list to be definitive: we have lots of ideas for projects we want to see pursued as part of GSoC 2026, but will certainly not receive as many slots as we want. The...

· Aaron Brethorst

Our Policy on AI-Generated Contributions

We've been noticing a trend across open source: an uptick in pull requests that are clearly generated by AI tools with minimal human oversight. This post establishes an official policy for how OTSF pr...

· Aaron Brethorst

Google Summer of Code 2025 Project Ideas

Caution: Please do not consider this list to be definitive: we have lots of ideas for projects we want to see pursued as part of GSoC 2025, but will certainly not receive as many slots as we want. The...

· Aaron Brethorst

Tips and Tricks for Google Summer of Code 2025

The Open Transit Software Foundation (OneBusAway) was a participant in last year's Google Summer of Code. Both the mentors and the student participants found it to be a valuable experience, and we're ...

· Aaron Brethorst

OneBusAway Adds Transit Rider Surveys

Surveys play a key role in helping transit agencies understand the needs of their riders and ultimately to make transit easier to use. As part of our Google Summer of Code initiative, our talented int...