Google has just announced the list of accepted students for this year's incarnation of the Google Summer of Code. For Geeklog, the accepted students and their projects are:

• Stan Palatnik will write a plugin for Social Networking, mentored by Randy Kolenko
• Vlad Voicu will be working on a New Calendar plugin, mentored by Vincent Furia
• Akeda Bagus will improve the Configuration GUI, mentored by Matt West
• Tim Patrick will implement a Cross Site Publication system, mentored by Dirk Haun

Congratulations to Akeda, Stan, Tim, and Vlad, and we're looking forward to working with you during the summer. To further improve communications with our students, we will also assign each of them a co-mentor this year. Thanks to Tom Homer and Ben (aka cordiste) for helping out in this new role.

Thanks (again) to all those who applied and sorry to those who didn't make the cut. We had almost 50% more applications this year but had opted to go with fewer students, which made decisions especially hard. Please feel free to contact us with any questions regarding your application.

Geeklog has been accepted as a mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code(tm) 2010. After 2007, 2008, and 2009, this is now our fourth year on this program:

Google Summer of Code is a program that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source projects. Historically, the program has brought together over 3,400 students with over 200 open source projects, to create millions of lines of code. The program, which kicked off in 2005, is now in its sixth year.

Student applications will be accepted starting March 29. Students interested in working on Geeklog, please have a look at our ideas page and feel free to use any of the contacts listed there to get in touch, starting now. Also, don't forget to check out Google's extensive FAQ.

We're very happy to be back in the Summer of Code and would like to thank Google for having us again. We're also looking forward to working with students over the next couple of weeks (during the application phase and beyond). So now let's hear all those great ideas you have for Geeklog :)

The Google Summer of Code 2009 is coming to an end. The results of the final evaluations are in and we're happy to announce that all of our students have passed. Congrats to Tim, Stan, Sean, Phaneendra, Kittipat, Choplair and Barry. Good work, guys!

So we're now looking into integrating their work into Geeklog. We haven't made a final decision yet, but it's quite possible that we will be rolling out the new features incrementally this time (instead of in one big post-GSoC release, which always tended to take much too long to complete in the past). Thanks to the power of Mercurial, integration should also be a lot easier this time (or so we hope).

My name is Tim Patrick, and I am the GSoC student that has been working on the Plugin Repository.

Introduction

The Repository attempts to provide a central place where site administrators are able to install plugins with a single click. It is modeled after the software management systems in Linux. Any site is able to set up a repository, which another site can connect to and search for plugins available. As well, patches and upgrades to your plugins can be installed by the user with one click, allowing for quick and easy updates, patches, and plugin installation. This will provide ease of use to the consumer, while more initiative to develop plugins for Geeklog.

Dear Geeklog users, today we are proud to announce the public availability of Geeklog with beta PostgreSQL support. This is the culmination of a Google Summer of Code project to implement this feature. PostgreSQL support builds on the already impressive list of MySQL and MSSQL support. This continues to improve Geeklog’s interoperability, which now offers support for the most popular relational database management systems.

1000 students have now been accepted for this year's incarnation of the Google Summer of Code. We had a really hard time selecting from the mostly excellent applications for Geeklog and AptitudeCMS this year. In the end, we decided on the following students and their projects:

For Geeklog:

• Sean Clark will be working on a test framework, mentored by Dirk Haun
• Tim Patrick will create a plugin repository, mentored by Matt West
• Stan Palatnik will add PostgreSQL support, mentored by Vincent Furia
• Thomas Gutleben will implement a complete OpenID 2.0 library, mentored by Randy Kolenko
• Phaneendra Kaddi will add image and comment support to the webservices, mentored by Ramnath Iyer

For AptitudeCMS:

• Kittipat Virochsiri will write a taxonomy plugin, mentored by Tony Bibbs
• Barry Carlyon will work on the syndication API, mentored by Justin Carlson

Congratulations to Barry, Kittipat, Phaneendra, Sean, Stan, Thomas, and Tim, and we're looking forward to working with you during the summer.

To those that didn't make the cut: Thanks again for your application. We had a lot of very good proposals this year and some of the decisions were really, really hard to make. If you have any questions regarding your application, please feel free to contact us through the usual channels.

Student applications for this year's Summer of Code have now closed. Thanks to everybody who submitted an application!

The number of applications we received is up slightly compared to last year and the overall quality is also pretty good. Which means that we will have a hard time selecting projects and students. We'll do our best. Results will be published on April 20.

In the meantime, can students please watch out for comments on their applications (you can subscribe to comments in the webapp)? We may have some questions or comments that you may want to reply to. Also, don't forget that we were encouraging applicants to take a swing at an existing bug in Geeklog this year. If you haven't done that already, now's the perfect time.

Geeklog has been accepted as a mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code(tm) 2009. After 2007 and 2008, this is now our third year on that program:

Google Summer of Code is a program that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source projects. Historically, the program has brought together over 2,400 students with over 230 open source projects, to create millions of lines of code. The program, which kicked off in 2005, is now in its fifth year.

Student applications will be accepted starting next Monday (March 23). Students interested in working on Geeklog, please have a look at our ideas page and feel free to use any of the contacts listed there to get in touch, starting now (no need to wait until Monday). Also, don't forget to check out Google's extensive FAQ.

We are very excited to be back in the Summer of Code and we're looking forward to working together with the students. This is a great way for students to get some real-life experience in working on software development and in open source project. And for Geeklog, we hope to not only get some new features but also some new members for the Geeklog community.

So the Google Summer of Code will be happening again in 2009: The new FAQ for this year is up now. As you can see, there will be slightly fewer students (and open source projects) accepted into the program this year, i.e. fewer than 2008 but still more than 2007.

Please note that the application period for organizations will only start on March 9 (and March 23 for students). So at this point, this is only a pre-announcement. We will be applying to participate in the Google Summer of Code again, but there is of course no guarantee that we will be accepted again.

Having said that: If you're a student and you're interested in participating in the GSoC 2009, feel free to have a look at our ideas page (note: work in progress). To quote Google's Leslie Hawthorn:

If you are interested in participating, it's a great idea to begin investigating FOSS projects you would enjoy contributing to now.