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Google Announces Summer of Code 2008

Posted by kdawson on from the endless-sunshine dept.

morrison writes "The 2008 Google Summer of Code is on. We have discussed this four-year-old tradition before (2005, 2006, 2007). Google will once again be hosting a program that gives computer science students a $4,500 stipend to work on open source software projects. Last year, Google funded over 900 students' projects in more than 90 countries. As noted in the program FAQ, this year they hope to do even more. The #gsoc IRC channel on Freenode is already buzzing with activity."

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  1. Re:Kids have it lucky these days by redalien · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Actually, Google Highly Open Participation contest produced some excellent pieces of code that were all submitted by "high school" students. If I didn't know better I'd say they were professional developers.

  2. My hope... by bogaboga · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ...is that enough resources get geared to having KDE 4.1 as complete as can possibly be. Guys, KDE 4 rocks and can be made better. Go guys.

  3. Awesome by katterjohn · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I successfully participated last summer working with Nmap. Leslie (from Google) and Fyodor were wonderful to work with, and I hope I can get in again this year!

    Great job, Google!

  4. Check out Gladex by charlie763 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I don't think we'd make it into GSoC, but if you are into Python and Glade you should checkout Gladex. We're even a Featured Project on Launchpad.net! Gladex isn't in the Ubuntu or Debian repositories yet, but we do have a PPA going of an alpha release. Alternatively, you can download the stable packages directly.

    Gladex is a Python application which takes a .glade file created in the Glade User Interface Builder and generates code in Perl, Python, or Ruby. The generated code uses libglade to draw a GUI and is not raw pygtk code (support via a plugin is in development). Support for additional languages can be added through the plugin API.

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    1. Re:Check out Gladex by AlXtreme · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Looks interesting, but one question that I couldn't find on the site: Why generate code at all?

      I might be missing something, but libglade has a python wrapper (and probably Ruby/Perl too, I'm too lazy to check). You can connect signals and handle events, everything you can do with generated or self-written GTK+ code. Calling libglade in Python is about 4 LOC. Why would anyone need a generator for this?

      Again, I'm not trolling here, just curious and both an avid GTK+ and Python user.

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  5. Have ANY projects been completed and integrated? by batkiwi · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I know from looking the last 2 years that the projects for both PSI and MythTV were accepted and started but never completed to a point where the maintainers put code into the full product.

    Are there ANY success stories?