Google’s Summer of Code, a program that matched computer science students with free and open source software projects and paid for results, is over. Despite some organizational problems, the SOC attracted an overwhelming response from both students and projects, and early indications are that the program has produced a wide range of projects and attracted a number of promising students to the FOSS communities. Whether the program will be repeated, however, remains undetermined.
What happened to LispNYC? They’re one of the participating mentoring organisations, and their link is dead. Searching for them on google doesn’t work either.
I’m just asking because I’ve started learning lisp, and wanted to see what (if any) lisp related jobs LispNYC had offered.
I think they’re having technical difficulties. Their site was up at least as of yesterday. You can always check their Google cache: http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:-3WUEALXIFgJ:www.lispnyc.org/s…
The project links in the Google cache work, because the targets are hosted on a different site. Of course, the page isn’t very useful, since they haven’t updated since early this summer, and very few projects I’m aware off used their mailing list (most used something like SourceForge or common-lisp.net).
As for what happened, it turned out pretty well. Out of 9 sponsored projects, 7 got positive evaluations (1 dropped out, 1 is under contention). I don’t know what the statistics are like for the rest of the SoC projects, but 78% success rate is a solid B in pretty much any CS program
What abot the Mozdev projects? Not all of them seem to be completed. Check the muzzled project for instance, it still doesn’t even have an alpha release.
http://summer.mozdev.org/index.html
The whole project seems to be organized very strangely to say the least.
http://live.gnome.org/SummerOfCode
No one of these projects as been terminated in pure Gnome style.
IMO the projects allocated to GNOME were very ambitious for one person to complete.
That being said, I think that a lot of these mentor organisations didn’t manage their SoC projects as well as they could have done.
From what I saw (purely from the outside) there did not seem to be many clear and easily accessible lines of communication between mentors and students, and the feedback given to students wasn’t as comprehensive and helpful as it could have been.
Maybe I’m just very pessimistic, but as far as I’m concerned, the whole Summer of Code program hasn’t been very successful.
Python Software Foundation had a productive summer of code:
http://wiki.python.org/moin/SummerOfCode
Data access protocol implementation, Autobuilding framework, Execution visualizer, GUI toolkit improvement, File transfer framework, Bayesian network library, Python-to-C++ prototype, Mailbox writing support, Notebook(Mathematica-style) for Python, Pure Python regex engine, Profiler rewrite, etc.
I see some fun and very usefull stuff that came out of it. Too bad my favourite project from GAIM camp didn’t turn out much… Crazy Chat is a lovely idea IMHO…enhancing communication via IM to include emotional messages presented usually by webcam, but without the bandwith (and difficulties of transmitting video) overhead. (Matrox tried somthing similar with their Headcasting, but it was useless IMO – it merely guessed how the animated face on the other end should look like based on voice, but this didn’t add any additional information to communication, like Crazy Chat would, by “scanning”, transmitting and displaying on animated, cartoony head, real emotional responces) I wonder if someone else would pick up the idea…
hmmm…. Ananova IM maybe?
Anyone? Anyone?
Bueller?
http://www.netbsd.org/Foundation/press/soc.html
It can read and is sorta stable, no writing yet. You need to check the sourceforge page.
That’s initiative where everyone wins (am I wrong?)!
I hope we have a next edition! =]
(…even if the Summer still months away and we are just saying goodbye to the Winter… ;] )
The blender summer of code was quite nice as well.
We got fluid dynamics!!!