GSoC Results

[denise]

Congratulations and welcome to the following students who will be joining us for this year's Summer of Code:

anarres: Business and usage statistics
chiming: RTE overhaul
i_xerxes: iPhone client
jportela: Polling system redesign/improvement
mayank: Desktop client
panna: Calendaring system
the_wanlorn: "Named guest" commenting level

We're thrilled and excited to have you guys. Welcome. :)

To those whom we couldn't accept -- thank you for your proposals! There were a lot of great things in there :) I've already had someone ask me whether they could do their proposal outside the GSoC framework, and the answer to that is, yes, totally, in most cases! There's nothing wrong with our users having multiple desktop or mobile clients to choose from, for instance. If your proposal was for something that touches the DW code directly, and someone else was accepted to work on the same thing, we encourage you to get in touch with them and let them know that you're interested in helping out. And if no-one waas accepted to work on your proposal, we'd be happy to have you work on it anyway.

Congrats again to those whose projects were accepted. It's going to be an awesome summer!

Comments

[yvi]

It's really going to be an awesome summer :)

Congratulations to all the accepted students!

[aveleh]

I'm really excited for this. Congrats to all the accepted students, and I hope to see all sorts of applicants sticking around. Dreamwidth really does have a great mentoring/community/code environment for getting your hands dirty.

(Plus, if you wanted to do something that wouldn't have worked so well in a competitive proposal environment, you still have a chance to get mentors and excited users. Like, say, if you wanted to write a Blackberry client :D)

[ursamajor]

Ooh, if there was a Blackberry client, maybe my dearly beloved would start updating again. I'm just sayin'. ;)

[draigwen]

Congrats to everyone who was accepted. Really looking forward to seeing the results! *g*

[sarah]

Welcome to you all!

I can't even tell you how excited I am to see all those names and descriptions. I feel like DW's cresting a hill and having you all here this summer is going to contribute so much momentum to the project.

[vass]

Congratulations, you guys!

[pauamma]

W00t! I have a minion!

Er, I mean, conga rats! (keys next to each other, doncha know?)

[aedifica]

Congratulations, everybody! And yay, the_wanlorn! I don't know you, but I'm really happy you'll be working on named guest commenting!

[rainbow]

Congratulations to the Seven Summer Students!! *confetti*

[stultiloquentia]

This is so exciting!

[kate]

Oh, YAY!

Congrats everyone! And Dreamwidth, too! :D

[azurelunatic]

Congratulations to everyone, and do please believe her that it was a tough decision. I was lucky enough to witness some of the discussions, and there was much wringing of hands that there were not enough available mentors/slots to take on more people.

[afuna]

Whoooo! Congratulations all!

[cesy]

So cool!

[turlough]

Congratulations and welcome!!