Summer, Summer, Summer
Let me be the last to announce that
Google Summer of Code results are out. Just click on organization names to see their accepted projects. In
GNOME we
got twenty projects.
Vincent and
Chris already wrote about it; the selection involved a few days of tough and lengthy discussions, on IRC and on mailing list, plus a closed election.
Anyway, we are all very excited about the chosen projects. I personally am the happy mentor of mathrick implementing
Vertical Writing Support for Pango. Projects I really liked we could accept but we didn't were (in order of missing)
Pango+XeTeX
,
Advanced OpenType and AAT Font Features for Pango
and
Font Manager
. I'll be contacting those students (of which two are regular GNOME contributors) to see if they are interested in working on these out of Summer of Code.
I would like to specially thank
Kosai (Chris Ball) and
kikidonk (Raphaƫl Slinckx) for helping Vincent and I manage the GNOME side, and to
Chris DiBona for the
Google side of the thing.
And I know it's Summer when I fix the bike and get out cycling...