Contributor: Kunal Gurtatta Mentors: Lorena Goldoni, Federico Foschini

Overview

As a Python developer and security enthusiast, I always wanted to contribute to open-source security projects. When I learned about GSoC from one of my seniors, I started searching for security organizations and came across Honeynet. They had just announced their ideas for this year’s GSoC, and one of them was BuffaLogs, which matched my tech stack perfectly. I began contributing in late Feb'25, submitting PRs to implement alerters and making small refactors to get familiar with the codebase. Since my early contributions focused on alerters, I decided to continue working on integrating more of them and improving the alerting logic in my proposal.

Contributor: Onunwa Goodness Mentors: Lorena Goldoni, Federico Foschini

My Google Summer of Code 2025 - The Honeynet Project (BuffaLogs)

September 1, 2025 officially marks the end of the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2025 coding period. Over the past four months, I’ve had the privilege of contributing as a developer to The BuffaLogs Project under The Honeynet Project. It’s been four months of doing what I love most—building and shipping code.

Our dedicated Google Summer of Code (GSoC) participant, Abheek, has spent an impressive three-month duration program actively contributing to not one, but two distinct projects: IntelOwl and Buffalogs. Notably, Abheek undertook the responsibility of crafting the brand-new official website for IntelOwl throughout this period.

In light of this significant achievement, we believe it is only fitting to showcase his remarkable results and contributions within the official IntelOwl site, in which he discuses his journey as a designer/frontend developer, the tasks involved and the detailed contributions to both projects, including the revamping of IntelOwl’s website, implementing JWT authentication for Buffalogs, creating maps and graphs for BuffaLogs’ dashboard, and crafting a frontend guide for IntelOwl using react-joyride.