"I'm very pleased that Google has chosen to provide us with 10 slots in
the Summer of Code program," said
According to Brockmeier, interest was high as the openSUSE project received more than 50 applications for its 10 allocated slots, and he is confident the students they're working with will be valuable contributors in the long run.
The projects funded by Google include: -- LTSP GUI management for openSUSE; by Jan Weber, mentored by Jigish Gohil. -- Interactive crash analysis; by Nikolay Derkach, mentored by Jan Blunck. -- Face-based authentication; by Rohan Anil, mentored by Alex Lau Chun Yin. -- Grub4ext4: enable ext4 file system as boot partition; by PengTao, mentored by Coly Li. -- New approach for (RPM) packages creation; by Andrei Oprisan, mentored by Stanislav Brabec. -- Libzypp download failover; by Gerard Farras i Ballabriga, mentored by Peter Poeml. -- GNOME Build Service client for openSUSE; by Mario Danic, mentored by Rodrigo Moya. -- Integration of OpenID Consumer to Build Service; by Hameedullah Khan, mentored by Cornelius Schumacher. -- Migration assistant reloaded; by Peter Libic, mentored by Pavol Rusnak. -- Build Service-Eclipse integration; by Long Hong, mentored by Michal Marek.
Google Summer of Code has funded more than 1,500 students and 2,000 mentors from 90 countries over the past three years. This year the project is funding 1,125 students with 175 open source projects, including openSUSE. For more information on openSUSE's activities in Google Summer of Code, visit http://code.google.com/soc/2008/suse/about.html.
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