GSoC 2026: Will project ideas which are beyond the published projects list be accepted?

Okay! But after digging into the codebase of the flutter app, I found two interconnected improvement areas:

1. Critical Modernization (Blocker-level issues):

  1. The app currently uses sdk: ">=2.10.0 <3.0.0" making it incompatible with Dart 3.x and Flutter 3.7+.
  2. Several packages are discontinued (share, package_info, file_utils) and core packages like bloc and dio are 2+ major versions behind with breaking API changes.
  3. The CI pipeline still uses flutter:3.3.8.

I’d like to systematically fix these, upgrade to Dart 3, and get a clean buildable app as a foundation.

2. Accessibility Extension for Community Health Workers: Building on the modernized app, I’d like to add a CHW-friendly mode for rural US health workers / non tech-savvy individuals featuring:

  1. Voice search for procedure names using speech_to_text (typing “percutaneous coronary intervention” is unrealistic in the field)
  2. AI-assisted plain language explanations of billing codes using Gemini API — not medical advice, just decoding publicly available chargemaster terminology
  3. Shareable cost reports for CHWs to share estimates with patients

Both ideas are scoped entirely within this app. Would this direction align with what you’re looking to prioritize?