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Google Summer of Code Project Breakdown

Posted by timothy on from the two-meanings-of-breakdown-get-it dept.

behdad writes "Google's Summer of Code final per-organization project breakdown is out. The Apache Software Foundation is on the top of the list with 38 projects allocated out of total 410 slots, followed by KDE, FreeBSD, and 38 other mentoring organizations. The accepted applications will be posted early next week. More than 8700 applications have been submitted. Thanks Greg Stein and Chris DiBona for the hard work."

6 of 117 comments (clear)

  1. Re:psf? by Bob+Loblaw · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.google.ca/search?q=psf

    Python Software Foundation would be my guess since it comes up first in Google.

  2. Re:13 google by behdad · · Score: 4, Informative

    Indeed they are opening some of their small projects, moving development to SourceForge.net. See http://code.google.com/ for a list. Small still, but nonzero.

  3. Re:$_$ by inode_buddha · · Score: 4, Informative

    No, I don't think it's odd at all. Just ask (for example) IBM or Novell. Or RedHat for that matter. Developers need to eat. They also need to pay for their home, car, kids, etc. Companies like Google need relatively cheap access to bleeding-edge tech, and the PR value of a project like this doesn't hurt. Anyway, last I checked "open source" is not mutually exclusive with "cash".

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  4. Re:Where are the proposal details? by Nimrangul · · Score: 3, Informative

    The proposal information for each project is on their own website, the ones accepted you will not know until Google releases more information, as noted in the link. "We'll post the applications and have further data early next week."

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  5. Re:go KDE go...! by pherthyl · · Score: 2, Informative

    No. Gaim is an application that happens to run on Gnome as well as several other platforms/environments. Notice how there is no mention of Gnome on the gaim website.

    Kopete on the other hand is an IM client specifically for KDE (although it can be used on Gnome too). It is tightly integrated with the KDE framework and other KDE applications.

  6. Re:gnome? by thinkfat · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well, Gaim is not so much of a GNOME application, it's just using GTK+ as a widget toolkit and glib for convenience. Otherwise, no GNOME technologies are used. On the same grounds you could argue that "scribus" is a KDE application because it happens to use Qt.

    The documentation tells that it "integrates well with GNOME 2 and KDE 3.1 system tray". So one could argue that it's a KDE application as well :-)