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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."

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  1. psf? by 3770 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Excuse an ignorant Swede, but what the heck is psf, number 4 on the list?

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  2. 13 google by cryptoz · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Google? Google will have open source code? Is this a first, or am I just nuts? Has anyone else heard that THEY were to be developing open source code, too? I mean, yeah, it's obvious they want to tap into its power with the whole Summer of Code thing, but I didn't realize they were actually going to have code developed for themselves as well...

  3. go KDE go...! by bogaboga · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I am glad KDE is way up there. I am sure no slashdotter can say KDE is doing badly at all. GNOME too, did not do that bad either. We surely have resources in the OSS world.

    1. Re:go KDE go...! by imr · · Score: 2, Interesting

      KDE: 24
      Gnome = 12 gnome + 15 gaim + 14 ubuntu + 13 fedoracore + 16 mono = 70 Gnome.

    2. Re:go KDE go...! by thinkfat · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Well, I think your equation is only remotely correct.

      • GAIM: not exactly a GNOME application. It just happens to use GTK+ and glib
      • mono: from what I learned from guadec, the GNOME community seems to be quite divided regarding mono
      • ubuntu, fedoracore: lets first see if those bounties are connected to GNOME exclusively. Of course one can argue that FC and ubuntu are primarily GNOME, but you can have KDE with FC and there's kubuntu, too, so every improvement there can also be a win for KDE

      But it doesn't really matter anyway. From the outside (news media that are not slashdot or osnews, or newsforge etc), nobody knows about those connections, they will list the topmost three at max, and GNOME is not among them.

  4. Re:gnome? by grilo · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Because KDE suffers from featuritis?

    Because KDE has a better infrastructure for further development?

    Because KDE developers are more fanatic about the project?

    I can surely say that at least one GNOME developer submited a proposal for a desktop agnostic enhacement (if you're really interested, you might want to check this).

    Seriously, the possibilities are too broad to make a correct statement. But I can point some of the possible reasons:

    • People think GNOME is pretty much feature complete, regarding high level enhacement possibilities.
    • People are afraid of developing stuff for GNOME due to some issues (real or not) with the platform itself.
    • People that use and prefer GNOME have a more broad view of their system, and think GNOME is just another component, instead of their whole computer experience, thus thinking there are other areas that need more attention than their Desktop Environment.

    I think the most accurate, though, is that KDE simply has a larger user base that have programming skills. I guess we can't be too far from reality if we establish a relationship between that (attracted people with programming skills) and the proposals present in this "contest".

    I'm even tempted to speculate that GNOME (as a Desktop Environment, but certainly not as a development platform) is much more successful than KDE. Even if KDE's userbase is larger, it just means that people that use GNOME are much more oblivious to all this programming stuff, meaning it's prefered by Joe Sixpack.

    Of course, all this becomes non-sense when you realize that Linux itself isn't even listed, while FreeBSD is so high (considering that Linux has a much wider user base and many more people contributing to it).

    So, two possibilities remain:

    1. The ammount of people with spirit of initiative, high coding skills, creative and rethorical (afterall, you got to convince them you are "worthy").
    2. People that have their kids starving and really need this to feed them.

    So, either KDE attracts super human beings or GNOME attracts only rich bastards to whom 1000 dollars mean nothing.

  5. For all you rejects by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    You can check out the list of rejected ideas, or add your own here:

    http://summerofrejects.pbwiki.com/index.php?wiki=R ejectedIdeas

    and besides that, we have a irc support / collabration channel on :

    irc://irc.freenode.net/google-rejects

    check out the wiki as well:
    http://summerofrejects.pbwiki.com/

    the point here is to help those who got rejected work on their projects together.

  6. Re:gnome? by arose · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Gaim also integrates with Nautilus and Evolution. IMHO at least some of those Gaim projects are about Gnome integration.

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  7. Re:gnome? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting
    In this thread, I think that panterace has come closest to what I believe is the actual answer. Without reading the project breakdown, my initial impression is that it is a case of integration.

    KDE seems to take a more integrated approach to getting applications under the KDE umbrella with Kthis, Kthat, etc. all of which fall under the "KDE Project" banner.

    Gnome on the otherhand, while it may have Gthis and Gthat applications, for better or worse, it does not have the same push to put every little application under the "Gnome Project" banner. Gnome (not surprisingly) seems to take the Gnu philosophy of "here are some tools, do something with them."

    While I think that the KDE methodology may produce more cohesive results in the near term; Ultimately, developers prefer being their own bosses; at least when it comes to writting software in their spare time. It also seems to be conducive to the goals of professional software development, as evidenced by the level of gnome development that goes into a goodly number of commercial Linux distributions and other Unicies.