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Google Announces Summer of Code 2008
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on Mon Feb 25, 2008 10:39 PM
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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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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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4th year in a row? (Score:5, Funny)
My hope... (Score:4, Interesting)
Awesome (Score:4, Interesting)
Great job, Google!
Check out Gladex (Score:5, Interesting)
Gladex is a Python application which takes a
Re:Check out Gladex (Score:4, Interesting)
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.
Have ANY projects been completed and integrated? (Score:5, Interesting)
Are there ANY success stories?
Re:Have ANY projects been completed and integrated (Score:5, Informative)
Absolutely. My fellow SoC students and I participating with Nmap last year have lots of code in Nmap proper. And the years before that (Nmap has participated every year of the SoC) there were a whole lot of cool things added to Nmap proper from SoC work.
Have ANY projects actually been useful? (Score:3, Interesting)
MythTV? You're joking, right?
More importantly, are they going to work on anything actually *useful*, instead of sexy stupid stuff that is the 2008 equivalent of "skinning" mp3 players? Every time I heard about SoC participants, I noticed that a)it wasn
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Re:Have ANY projects been completed and integrated (Score:4, Informative)
Other things may not have made it in, but were good research projects both for the project and for the students; FreeBSD now has a very functional port of OpenBSD's hardware sensors suite, though it wasn't accepted into base because of architectural concerns. gjournal started life as a SoC project, and while rejected it did help spur development of a new more functional one, and the student went on to produce gvirstor, the aforementioned GEOM storage virtualisation layer which *did* make it. The Linux KVM port got far enough to boot FreeBSD 7 as a guest and will hopefully continue development. I'm sure I've left lots out.
Just because a SoC project doesn't make it into a "product", doesn't mean that project wasn't a success. Even if it never produces something deployable, it's given a student some experience in development, it's given the project some interesting if not necessarily immediately useful code and it's helped lay groundwork for future development, even if it only does so by providing those concerned some experience.
Re:What should get precedence? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:What should get precedence? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What should get precedence? (Score:4, Informative)
1 - Any complex app will likely have some memory leaks. The code has been very thoroughly examined and cleaned up for Firefox 3.
2 - Most "leaks" come from poorly written extensions/add-ons. Run without them and check out the difference.
3 - There is a feature in Firefox that you can easily turn off, that people mistake for a memory leak. Firefox keeps fully rendered versions of pages in memory, in addition to the standard cache on the hard disk. If you hit back, Firefox doesn't need to re-render the page. Browse a while, and Firefox will use up plenty of memory. If you don't like this behavior, then turn the feature off.
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Turning off bfcache might be useful for rudimentar
Re:What should get precedence? (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:What should get precedence? (Score:5, Insightful)
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Regarding the Obama ad served on this page: "It's a cookbook!!!"
Re:What should get precedence? (Score:5, Informative)
Thousand Parsec [thousandparsec.net] (a game framework for turn based strategy games) was one of the mentor organisations last year [google.com].
The effect on our project was really huge, not only did the students do some very [thousandparsec.net] cool [google.com] work [thousandparsec.net]. We now have the creditability to approach Universities and help get their students involved with our project.
We already have one student working on Thousand Parsec as part of a high school internship [ohloh.net] and two students from the University of South Australia [unisa.edu.au] working on a Java MIDP client.
Thanks a huge amount to Google and the Summer of Code team, hopefully we can get in again this year and have even more fun!
Re:Kids have it lucky these days (Score:5, Interesting)
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Actually Nick Bishop who did SoC with Blender 2 years
Re:OpenMoko, coreboot, and ATI video drivers (Score:5, Insightful)
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Quite true, but why do Google restrict participation to students?
The first goal listed on their SoC FAQ is:
``Get more open source code created and released for the benefit of all''
So why exclude professi
Re:Small Winner and Big Winner (Score:4, Insightful)