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Summer of Code'08 Organizations List Announced

Posted by Zonk on from the meet-your-mentors-and-your-masterse dept.

kulbirsaini writes "Google has announced the list of accepted organizations for the Google Summer of Code 2008. 'No doubt many would-be Summer of Code students are wondering what their next steps should be. We've changed the program timeline this year, leaving a week in between the announcement of accepted mentoring organizations and opening for student applications. Use this week to meet your potential mentors and discuss your project ideas with them, and keep on eye on the program mailing lists, as we'll post notes about additional resources for learning about our mentoring organizations.'"

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  1. Google supports FOSS Gaming! by mithro · · Score: 5, Informative

    Google has been very good to the Open Source gaming community again this year, there are a total of 7 game projects and 5 game related projects.

    The following game projects have been accepted,

    • Battle for Wesnoth (ideas), a very cool turn based strategy game in the theme of Heroes of Might and Magic.
    • BZFlag (ideas), the classic tank first person shooter game. One of the oldest open source games around!
    • Linden Lab (ideas), the makers of Second Life the largest "almost game like" online universe.
    • ScummVM (ideas), an engine which lets you play all the classic Lucas Arts games and many more!
    • Thousand Parsec (ideas), a framework for building 4x empire building games. Been around since 2001 and growing quickly.
    • Tux4Kids (ideas), a group of multi-platform open source educational games for children.
    • WorldForge (ideas), one of the original open source MMORPG which has even been mentioned on Slashdot multiple times (original called Altima).

    The Summer of Code had a huge impact my own project, Thousand Parsec and I hope that it will again have a significant positive impact. GSoC 2007 helped us develop a number of core utilities that the main developers just would not have time to do. These projects should substantially increase the productivity of new contributors and lower the barrier to entry into development. The huge amount of web traffic brought to our website from just being a mentor organisation can clearly be seen in our web statistics.

    This year we are planning to concentrate on improving the player experience. The two ways for achieving this is to create more full and interesting games (rulesets) and making the game clients more attractive and easier to access (such as a web-based client and improving the desktop client).

    Out of the three students that where selected last year, two passed their final evaluations. The code that the students produced was of both a high quality and quantity.

    One of the students projects, the RFTS clone ruleset, is now one of the most complete and popular of our games (rulesets). The student has continued to help with its development and is now currently considering being a mentor this year.

    The other successful student made over 220 commits and produced 28,824 lines of code, more than some of our other long term project members! He has developed a ruleset editor which will make ruleset development significantly easier in the future.

    As well, the Open Source Office funded one student in a Summer of Code style outside the program. The student successfully completed the project and we hope the code will soon be rolled out.

    Because of the success of our GSoC, our project has actively started to engage with educational instit

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    Thousand Parsec - http://www.thousandparsec.net/
  2. Scribus Team's Ideas by oleksa · · Score: 5, Informative

    Prospective gsoc student participants interested in improving Free Software Desktop Publishing are invited to look at Scribus Team's ideas list at http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/GsoC_2008_Ideas. We are starting our second GSoC year and are looking for good student coders to improve the *nix/MacOX/Win32 Desktop Layout Software. Come in to #scribus on Freenode if you'd like to talk to us or join our mailing list at http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus. We are open and quite friendly.

    Alex
    Scribus Team's GSoC Administrator

  3. Re:My observations by gravij · · Score: 4, Informative

    Perhaps you should have read this: Notes on Organizations Selection Criteria . It is linked from the question '5. What kind of mentoring organizations should apply?' in the section about Mentoring organisations in the FAQ.

    It gives 6 points: have you participated before, your ideas list, the quality of your application, does google use your software, does google know you, and does giving you money help the wider Open Source community.

  4. BRL-CAD solid modeling and computer graphics by morrison · · Score: 4, Informative

    BRL-CAD is delighted to be participating in the Google Summer of Code this year for the first time. Be sure to check out our ideas list and either stop by the #brlcad IRC channel on Freenode or subscribe to our developer's mailing list to get involved early.

    As many know, computer-aided design (CAD) is one of the areas most lacking attention in open source. BRL-CAD has a solid foundation and considerable 25-year development history with more than 450 person-years development effort invested yet we are still wholesomely lacking in the usability and user-interface department. Maybe some of you can help us fix that. We're interested in many other ideas as well. Hope to see you apply!

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    Cheers!
    Sean
  5. x264 is accepting SoC applications! by Silverlancer · · Score: 4, Informative

    Through the Videolan project, x264 is accepting SoC applications this year. We don't have many mentors though... so the competition will be tough!

    Drop by #x264dev on Freenode and get involved in the qualification tasks before its too late... more information can be found here.