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

[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'. ;)