Summer of Code Students announced

Thursday, April 12 2007 @ 03:54 AM EDT

Contributed by: Dirk

Sitting in a hotel lobby somewhere on the outskirts of Oxford on a sunny morning, it is my pleasure to announce the list of students and projects that have been accepted for the Summer of Code 2007:

Installation Wizard for Geeklog by Matthew West, mentored by Dirk Haun
Configuration GUI and DB Configuration Backend by Aaron Blankstein, mentored by Blaine Lang
Article plugin for Geeklog 2 by Damien Hodgkin, mentored by Tony Bibbs
Web services API for Geeklog by Ramnath R Iyer, mentored by Dirk Haun
Improving comments by Connor Dunn, mentored by Blaine Lang
GUI for Geeklog 2 Options by Andrea Edelstein, mentored by Tony Bibbs

Congratulations to all those that were accepted and our apologies to those that weren't. We got some really great applications but 6 students is all that we can handle, so we had to draw a line somewhere. If you, as a student, have any questions, please feel free to email us.

I'll post more later but for now I'll have to go off to hear today's keynote which, incidentally, is on "Improving Collaboration in Open Source Projects" by Mark Shuttleworth ...

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Authored by: jmucchiello on Thursday, April 12 2007 @ 09:58 AM EDT

Dirk, I'm curious about the Geeklog installation project of Matthew West. I have a prototype plugin autoinstaller that will upload a .tar.gz, move the files to the right places, and redirect you to the plugin page where (usually) you can just hit the install link. Is there any overlap here or is this project more for the core Geeklog install?

I haven't posted my installer because I was planning to add an option to install files that already exist on the server without going through the upload step but haven't had a chance to implement that.

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Authored by: Dirk on Friday, April 13 2007 @ 04:43 PM EDT

The idea is that the install script that Matthew is going to write will work similar to the current one - only much more user-friendly. You will still have to upload the files yourself first.

Authored by: ScurvyDawg on Friday, April 13 2007 @ 03:59 PM EDT

Fantastic stuff.

I am sorry a fully fledged e-commerce solution never made it in but maybe next year.

:)

Authored by: Dirk on Friday, April 13 2007 @ 04:47 PM EDT

We did actually have one application for an e-commerce plugin and would have accepted it but the student eventually went with another organization (which is perfectly fine, of course).

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