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Highlights From the 2009 Google Summer of Code

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the they-skipped-the-lowlights dept.

mask.of.sanity writes "Over a 1000 students were accepted into the fifth year of the program from 70 countries and will work on about 150 open source projects with mentor organisations. The program, created in 2005, has exposed some 2500 students to "real-world" software development and opened employment opportunities within mentor organisations and in fields relevant to their academic study. The United States scored the lion's share with 212 accepted students; 101 from India; 55 from Germany; 44 from Canada, 43 from Brazil. The Dominican Republic, Iceland, Luxembourg and Nigeria were new entrants to the program each with a single accepted student. Check out the slideshow summary of some project highlights, with hyperlinks back the detailed project pages."

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  1. Will be "mentoring" two participants. by Hero+Zzyzzx · · Score: 4, Informative

    A few basic definitions to make this post clearer:
    participant: student accepted into the program
    sponsoring organization: pretty obvious one, the organization sponsoring the participants
    mentor: the person from the sponsoring organization delegated to manage GSoC participants

    I'm pretty psyched. I've got two students to mentor on two different projects - I think it's going to be a great summer.

    GSoC is a brilliant program on google's part - they are transparent about their aims: to get the "sponsors" to evaluate the participants so google can think about hiring them.

    Google avoids headhunter fees, gets an in-depth real-world evaluation with a significant codebase to review and open-source projects get quality work.

    Google may still pwn my datas, but hey: this is clearly not evil.

  2. [PASTE] / The stupidity of a slideshow w/ icons... by Khopesh · · Score: 5, Informative

    That's right, all this for 14 giant-size icons on 14 pages of ads and other garbage to read the 14 sentences of text that contain all the important info.

    Or I could paste them here.

    • Linux Foundation: The architecture of the OpenPrinting web-service will be overhauled to alleviate resource consumption, OpenJDK will become LSB compliant, and setting-up an access point will become easier in Linux under some of the 11 projects run for the Linux Foundation.
    • Mozilla Project: The Mozilla Project has 10 initiatives for the program this year, including automated duplicate detection for Bugzilla; integration of pre-existing, third-party extensibility into Ubiquity; and improvements to the Register Allocator of Trace Monkey.
    • OpenSUSE: Nine projects will be sponsored by OpenSUSE including porting from openSUSE to ARM; an implementation of the YaST education module; synchronisation with mobile devices; and porting openSUSE to MIPS.
    • Drupal: Drupal will receive a peer review platform for its forum, and API integration for Google Analytics under 18 sponsored projects for the Summer of Code this year. Others include: completion of version control integration and deployment to Drupal.org; a usability testing suite; and plans to 'make Drupal smart'.
    • KDE: KDE will sponsor 38 projects including: improving search and virtual folders in KDE4; plasma media center components; a crossplatform authentication and authorisation framework; weather support and enhanced plugin features for Marble; and finishing the Amorok playlist with multilevel playlist sorting.
    • Debian: Integration with the Amazon EC2 cloud service; automatic debug package creation and handling; and rewriting the Debian autobuilding infrastructure are all part of Debian's 11 projects accepted in this year's Google Summer of Code.
    • Apache Software Foundation: The Apache Software Foundation will sponsor 38 projects including: adaptive query targeting in distributed database environment; a Java debugger command line tool; Web-based management console for ServiceMix; a new user interface for the Apache Qpid JMX management console; and empowering Google Android applications to easily consume business services.
    • GIMP: An advanced GUI for brush dynamics and an improved nonlinear resampler with built-in antialiasing are some of the 6 projects sponsored by the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP). Other initiatives include a "fast adaptive resampler tailored for transformations which mostly downsample", and some improvements to the foreground selection tool.
    • GIT: GIT will get 2 projects this year, which will add caching support to git-daemon, and an interactive graph GUI.
    • GNOME: The GNU Object Model Environment (GNOME) will sponsor 25 projects that will make conduits work as a daemon; integrate bugzilla into pulse; add support for Nautilus to Google docs; allow GNOME-Sudoku to be played with IM contacts; and improving the DVB experience with GNOME DVB daemon.
    • Joomla!: Eighteen projects are being sponsored by Joomla! in the program this year. Error handling will be improved; a common gateway will be added f
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