Google Summer of Code Announces Mentor Projects

Posted by timothy on Thursday March 19, 2009 @08:56AM from the everyone-gets-a-free-mentors-album-too dept.

mithro writes "As everyone should already know, Google is running the Summer of Code again this year. For those who don't know, GSoC is where Google funds student's to participate in Open Source projects and has been running for 5 years, bringing together over 2600 students and 2500 mentors from nearly 100 countries worldwide. Google has just announced the projects which will be mentor organizations this year. It includes a great list of Open Source projects from a wide range of different genres, include content management systems, compilers, many programming languages and even a bunch of games!"

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Re:Pidgin is on the list... by Anonymous Coward · 2009-03-19 13:58 · Score: 1, Insightful

It was never about "bloat", it was about time and interest. Pidgin has 0 full time developers, only hobbyists, so what tends to be worked on is what they, themselves, are interested in.
As far back as 2006 (when I was an SOC student) I saw one of the main developers saying he didn't find voice/video interesting, but if someone paid him to do it, he'd make the time. Some of the volunteer developers DO care, but they're time restrained with jobs, families, etc.
As always is the case in open source, "Patches Welcome".