Project history
Gephi has been initially developed by students of the University of Technology of Compiègne, in France. It has been selected for the Google Summer of Code from 2009 to 2013. It received the Duke's Choice Award at JavaOne 2010.
After a less active period of development, the Gephi team gathers almost every year since 2021 to maintain the codebase, meets users, and discuss and design new features.
For more information about the evolution of the project, check our blog.
Project roadmap
Beyond the codebase, we also work on the project’s structure and other aspects. Next up we aim at this:
- Consolidate governance. Clarify roles, add content to our Open Collective platform, and improve onboarding.
- Raise funds and facilitate donations. We need funds for the Gephi Weeks and ultimately, for recurrent contributors.
- Recruit core contributors. Having developers familiar with the codebases is key to the sustainability of the project.
- Gephi Weeks. We meet for an entire week every year, and that’s a great moment to care for and contribute to the project.
Follow the evolution of the project on our blog, and notably the Gephi Weeks: 2021, 2022, 2024, and 2025.
Team
Gephi has been made possible by so many people that it's hard to name them all, from developers, to content creators, to translators...
Here is a non-exhaustive list of currently active members:
Mathieu Jacomy
Mathieu Bastian
Eduardo Ramos Ibáñez
Matthieu Totet
Paul Girard
Alexis jacomy
Benoit Simard
Martin Grandjean
Clément Levallois
We thank the following contributors, who have improved the code or added new features: Clément Levallois, Anna Kharitonova, Antonin Delpeuch, Côme Brocas, Sukankana Chakraborty, Walton Goga.
Plugin developers meaningfully contribute to the community, and we want to thank all of their contributions. You can directly find plugin authors in Plugins.
The years Gephi participated in the Google Summer of Code was rich in collaboration and contributions. We thank mentors Eytan Adar, Christian Tominski, Cezary Bartosiak, Julian Bilcke, Antonio Patriarca and Eduardo Ramos Ibáñez. We also thank Helder Suzuki, Jeremy Subtil, Patrick McSweeney, André Panisson, Antonio Patriarca, Martin Škurla, Yi Du, Yudi Xue, Vojtech Bardiovsky, Ernesto Aneiros, Urban Škudnik, Keheliya Gallaba, Daniel Bernardes, Luiz Ribeiro, Min Wu, Vikash Anand, Taras Klaskovsky, Romain Yon, Eduardo Espinoza, Vijesh M. and Nitesh Bhargava for their student contributions.
Gephi is a multilingual software thanks to its many translators. We are grateful for their work. You can find them directly on our Weblate.
Finally, we thank key early-days contributors and supporters Sébastien Heymann, Guillaume Lebourgeois, Dana Diminescu, Camille Maussang, Aurélien Beltrame, Stéphane Raux, Alain Le Berre, Guilhem Fouetillou and Franck Ghitalla.