McEs, A Hacker Life: Google Summer of Code, Check

Thursday, August 30, 2007

Google Summer of Code, Check

Summer of code is officially ending and at GNOME we had yet another successful year of participation.

I'd like to highlight some of the accepted projects that I personally followed closely as they developed over the course of past couple of months.
All the other projects are quite interesting too, but these are just my pick for today.

New geometry manager for GTK+: Mathias did a great job with his project into bringing modern size negotiation and alignment facilities to GTK+, and hacked on a lot more other stuff (including the cool GNOME programming language vala) in the way. My favorite for now.
Photobooth-like application for the GNOME-Desktop: Daniel's cheese application has already been a favorite on Planet GNOME.
Enhance Mango to allow self-service of GNOME account data and streamline GNOME account setup: We are already seeing benefits of this work Baris has been doing on improving GNOME's account management that has so much needed a redesign. Thanks Baris.
Gnome Scan NG: Étienne is on this job for the second year. With AbiWord integrating it, Gnome Scan is already featured in an ArsTechnica article.
Cross-Application Scripting: Ori comes from the same school that desrt does. No wonder they've been working on similar stuff recently. With their work complete we will find a whole lot of new opportunities for application scripting using a tight GNOME and D-Bus integration.

In the end, thanks to Google Open Source office for running yet another great program, to Lucas for keeping a constant eye on the progress of students and mentors alike, to Vincent for doing most of the rest of administration tasks, and last but not least, to all the great students that submitted proposals, to the lucky ones that were accepted, and to everyone who volunteered to mentor. You all Rock!

Labels: gnome, gsoc