[haiku] Eight students to be mentored by Haiku in Google Summer of Code 2011!
- From: Matt Madia <mattmadia@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 19:28:45 +0000
Posted at http://www.haiku-os.org/community/gsoc/2011/accepted-students ...
For this year's Google Summer of Code™[1] program, we at Haiku have
been allocated eight students! In 2011, 417 mentoring organizations
applied and 3731 students submitted 5474 proposals. Haiku is proud to
be one of the 175 accepted mentoring organizations, with 35 submitted
proposals and 8 accepted students.
Over the years, Haiku's goals for Google Summer of Code have evolved.
Originally the ability to evaluate the students' capabilities was
lacking and the attention was simply on choosing projects that filled
a need. Now, the emphasis is placed on choosing the best students, as
they are more important than their short term code contributions.
During the application process, those students instilled a sense of
hope and confidence in Haiku's mentors that they will mature into full
project contributors. In other words, this is our opportunity to grow
and refine young, intelligent, and highly motivated students into
people who will continue to develop Haiku in the years to come.
Adrien "pulkomandy" Destugues and Alex "yourpalal" Wilson are prime
examples of our achievements in this. They successfully passed their
individual Google Summer of Code participations. They have become
integral parts of the development force. Now, they are completing the
circle by mentoring new students, who will hopefully become tomorrow's
contributors with commit access. Perhaps the most interesting tidbit
in all this, is that Adrien was Alex's mentor last year, thus showing
how Google Summer of Code is literally expanding Haiku's development
pool one talented mind at a time.
Accepted Students
Dario Casalinuovo
Mentor: Alex Wilson
Project: Services server and Contacts files integration
Gabriel Hartmann
Mentor: Jérôme Duval
Project: USB Video Driver for High-end Webcams
Sean Healy
Mentor: Niels Sascha Reedijk
Project: Language bindings for the C++ API
Nathan Heisey
Mentor: Adrien Destugues
Project: SDL upgrade
Jian Jiang
Mentor: Jérôme Duval
Project: Add USB 3.0 support to Haiku
Jack Laxson
Mentor: Oliver Tappe
Project: Bâtisseur: a build server for all.
Ankur Sethi
Mentor: Bruno Albuquerque
Project: Port ZFS to Haiku
Mike Smith
Mentor: Alexander von Gluck IV
Project: VirtualBox guest additions for Haiku
Additional Mentors
It is worth noting that Haiku has moved past the "one mentor per
student mentality". In addition to the primary mentors listed above,
the following people are part of a pool of mentors. The mentor pool is
available to all students, as a supplement to their officially listed
mentors. This improves the so-called Bus Factor[2], by enabling other
interested and knowledgeable people to participate in the students'
daily activities.
Stephan Aßmus
Axel Dörfler
René Gollent
Ryan C. Gordon (from SDL[3])
Fredrik Holmqvist
Phillippe Houdoin
Ryan Leavengood
Michael Lotz
Scott McCreary
François Revol
Oliver Ruiz Dorantes
Philippe Saint-Pierre
Ingo Weinhold
Clemens Zeidler
Siarzhuk Zharski
In closing ...
Thank you to all who have and continue to take the time to make
Haiku's participation in Google Summer of Code a successful adventure.
This includes Google for sponsoring Summer of Code[4]; its program
administrators Carol Smith, Cat Allman, Chris DiBona, & Ellen Ko; the
Melange[5] developers and contributors; and of course Haiku's
Mentors[6]. If any student would like feedback regarding your proposal
and suggestions for next year, feel free to contact (Matthew
Madia[7]).
1: http://google-melange.com/
2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor
3: http://www.libsdl.org/
4: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2011
5: http://code.google.com/p/soc/
6: http://www.haiku-os.org/community/gsoc/2011#mentors
7: http://www.haiku-os.org/user/331/contact
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