Google Summer of Code Results

Nattfodd writes "Almost two months after the projects, deadline, partial (but fairly complete) results of Google Summer of Code are here. The completion rate of projects (and thus payment of the students) was approximately 90%, which would certainly qualify for a 'huge success' of the operation. Summer of Code paid more than 400 students of 49 countries to spend their summer helping open-source projects, 4500$ on completion. Now we just have to wait for the T-shirts..."

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Other MozDev projects:

[MTO_B.]

The list of projects says "Please note that this page contains a sampling and not a complete listing of the projects done as part of the Summer of Code."

The MozDev (related to Mozilla / Firefox) projects missing from the list are:

- Cockatoo: SIP phone extension for Mozilla Thunderbird
http://cockatoo.mozdev.org/

- Firepuddle: BitTorrent P2P for Mozilla
http://firepuddle.mozdev.org/

- Event Loger (An advanced macro and testcase creation tool for Firefox)
http://eventlogger.mozdev.org/

- Muzzled: graphical theme builder for mozilla
http://muzzled.mozdev.org/

- Vietnamese translation of Firefox
http://vi.mozdev.org/

I'm a woman in CS

[dptalia]

And with the exception of one job, I've always been the only woman on the programming team. I even had an employer ask me if I was okay with being the only woman. My response: "And this differs from the past 10 years how?"

At college most of the women went into chemical engineering, or varients (geological, biological, and there was one other which I can't remember). I don't know why more women don't care to program, but low stats for women doesn't surprise me a bit.

Re:Hmmm, interesting projects

[harryk]

Secure Shell file system mount has been available as a module for some time. ssh_fs.o I think, or something, but it works sufficiently enough.

the project is here: http://shfs.sourceforge.net/

enjoy...
harryk

Re:Google pays MCDONALD'S wages

[pherthyl]

Bull. There was no requirement to work all summer long. I did about 3 weeks of full time work.

$4500/120 = $37.50/hour. I'd say I'm happy with that. The trick was to come up with an innovative idea that didn't require too much coding. Of course if your proposal was to write a MS Windows clone in COBOL then you've got other problems.

Re:Hmmm, interesting projects

[hackstraw]

don't even have that limited of bandwidth and I would like to see this mod in production. Very needed code IMHO.

http://cband.linux.pl/
http://www.steve.org.uk/Software/mod_curb/
http://www.snert.com/Software/mod_throttle/ This one might be best, I've looked at it before.
http://www.topology.org/src/bwshare/README.html

Or you could just dupe an ask.slashdot.org by asking something like:

http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/18/02 31229&tid=4&tid=2

I'm really surprised this is not part of Apache by now.

Re:Nice idea, poor pay

[mattwarden]

First: It really wasn't about the pay. The pay was damn nice, but it wasn't about that.

Secondly: I and many others also had part time jobs/internships.

Re:Google pays MCDONALD'S wages

[mattwarden]

Where in Zeus's name did you get your 40 hours/week number from?

I would say I spent about 150 hours on my project. That puts me at around $30/hour before taxes.

There is no time requirement. You propose a project. If it gets accepted, you spend however long it takes to get it done. At your leisure. Whenever you want.

And I'd like fries with that, please.

Re:Hmmm, interesting projects

[mindtriggerz]

The diffrence being, the SHFS project is a native kernel module, while the aformentioned is a FUSE (Filesystem in USErspace) based-program. The diffrence is that you need not be root to load/mount a SSHfs.