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Google Summer of Code Results

Posted by Zonk on from the impressive-most-impressive dept.

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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  1. Other MozDev projects: by MTO_B. · · Score: 5, Informative

    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/

  2. Re:Hmmm, interesting projects by harryk · · Score: 5, Informative

    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

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