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Since the release of Go 1.0 in March last year, the "gophers"âa team at Google and hundreds of contributors from the open source communityâhave been hard at work.
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The meetup started with a presentation by Mostafa Muhammad, a 2008 and 2009 Google Summer of Code alumnus who worked with the Joomla! organization. He gave an introductory speech about the Google Summer of Code program and the 2013 program timeline. He emphasized that participating organizations understand that applicants are students with moderate skills and that they are still learning, which is why a mentor is paired with each student to help with questions they have when working on their project. Mostafa stressed the importance of the studentsâ written project proposal and their general fit with the project when organizations are choosing their students.
Islam Wazeery talking about writing a proposal
From left to right: Ahmed Refaat, Islam Wazery, Mohamed Tarek and Mostafa Muhammad during Q&A panel
Meetup at University of Technology in Graz, Austria
Our information sessions are designed as a general introduction into Google Summer of Code including what the program is, who can participate, a short overview of projects that participated in previous years, how to apply, and who should apply. Next Sercan Akpolat did a presentation on the Catroid Project and Peter Grasch presented on KDE. They discussed their projects, the mentoring process and the way they go about choosing students from their many applications. We then ended with a question and answer (Q&A) session.
We had very positive feedback and realized that none of the students had ever heard of Google Summer of Code before walking into the room. During the Q&A, the students expressed their concerns about the workload necessary for Google Summer of Code. Most questions regarded the expertise and working hours required for successful participation in the program.
Based on his experience in previous Google Summer of Code years, Sercan explained that the typical workload is challenging but achievable. Regarding the expertise level required for the program, Sercan and Peter explained that intermediate knowledge is sufficient. The Google Summer of Code is designed to inspire young developers to begin participating in open source development, to learn and to broaden their minds.
By Annemarie Harzl and Sercan Akpolat, The Catroid Project
You can visit the Google Summer of Code website for more information on the 177 mentoring organizations that students will be working with this summer.
⌠Android netplay by Simeon Maxein
biographer is a web-based visualization tool for biological networks that helps depict and analyze metabolic, signaling and regulatory networks in cells which is mandatory for the understanding of complex diseases including cancer. Our team was very excited to participate in the Google Summer of Code once again.
We chose three bright students from twenty excellent applicants. Our students came onboard with most of the necessary skills for their tasks which was very exciting. It turned out that they were also among the most active students in our forum during the application phase.
⌠A data storage and conversion layer was implemented by Duan Lian which enables us to connect to the graph notation language SBGN-ML. This interoperability is important in order to establish biographer as a new application for biologists.
⌠Taye Adeyemi improved the user interface with respect to graph manipulation, traversal and performance. Now graphs can be viewed and manipulated on mobile devices through touch gestures. Furthermore, the improved performance enables rendering of larger graphs which was a problem with the previous implementation.
⌠Chaitanya Talnikar implemented a Boolean simulator extension which enables us to analyze functional aspects of the networks.
To sum it up: this year's Google Summer of Code was again an exciting experience and helped to evolve our project.
By Thomas, Falko, Ben, Till, Matthias, on behalf of the biographer team
These are just four of the 180 organizations that participated in the 2012 Google Summer of Code program. Weâre currently accepting organization applications from open source projects to be mentoring organizations in 2013. If your project is interested in applying, donât delay! Applications close on March 29th.
Joel Sherrill, a Google Summer of Code Mentor for the past five years, recently held an informational meet-up on RTEMS and Google Summer of Code, his account of the meetup is below.
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Chris DiBona at GoOpen Arctic Forum in Tromsø, Norway