Google Summer of Code 2008 Wrap Up
Sat, 13-Sep-2008 by
Alberto Simões
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<i>Google Summer of Code 2008 Wrap Up written by Eric Wilhelm:</i><br /><p><br /></p><p>Google's Summer of Code 2008 is wrapping up now and I'm very pleased
with how well The Perl Foundation's students and mentors have done. The
five projects which survived the halfway point have all finished with
great results.</p><p>Many thanks to all of the mentors and students as
well as everyone in the community who helped or supported the process.
Also, thanks to Google for putting on the program and to Richard Dice
and Jim Brandt at TPF.</p><p>But the end is only the beginning. We
should really get started on next year now. Perl needs to do a better
job of attracting students, but I'll have to address these issues in
another post.</p><p>Most of the students did a great job of blogging
their progress, which I think is an important part of Summer of Code
for the rest of the community. If you have been following along with
any of the student projects, please drop me a note or leave a comment.
I would love to hear more opinions from outside of the active SoC
participants. Also, please <em>thank</em> the mentors and students for
their work. Of course, they "know" you appreciate their effort -- but
it really means something if you actually send them an e-mail or say
thanks on irc.</p><p>For those just joining us, here is a run-down of the SoC projects and some links.</p><p><b>Flesh out the Perl 6 Test Suite</b><br />
student: <b>Adrian Kreher</b><br />
mentor: <em>Moritz Lenz</em><br />
<a href="http://auzon.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">Blog</a> | <a href="http://moritz.faui2k3.org/svn-search/search.pl?q=author%3Aauzon" rel="nofollow">Code</a> | <a href="http://perlgeek.de/blog-en/perl-6/gsoc-mentor-recap.html" rel="nofollow">Moritz's Recap</a></p><p><b>wxCPANPLUS</b><br />
student: <b>Samuel Tyler</b><br />
mentors: <em>Herbert Breunung</em> and <em>Jos Boumans</em><br />
<a href="http://wxcpan.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow">Blog</a> | <a href="http://code.google.com/p/wxcpan/" rel="nofollow">Code</a> | <a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/CPANPLUS-Shell-Wx" rel="nofollow">CPAN distribution</a></p><p><b>Native Call Interface Signatures and Stubs Generation for Parrot</b><br />
student: <b>Kevin Tew</b><br />
mentor: <em>Jerry Gay</em><br />
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/6hwk6t" rel="nofollow">Mail</a> | <a href="http://svn.perl.org/parrot/branches/gsoc_nci_001" rel="nofollow">Code</a> | <a href="http://svn.perl.org/parrot/branches/gsoc_nci@30184" rel="nofollow">(older branch)</a></p><p><b>Incremental Tricolor Garbage Collector</b><br />
student: <b>Andrew Whitworth</b><br />
mentor: <em>chromatic</em><br />
<a href="http://use.perl.org/%7EWhiteknight/" rel="nofollow">Blog</a> | <a href="https://svn.perl.org/parrot/branches/gsoc_pdd09/" rel="nofollow">Code</a></p><p><b>Math::GSL</b><br />
student: <b>Thierry Moisan</b><br />
mentor: <em>Jonathan Leto</em><br />
<a href="http://leto.net/code/Math-GSL/" rel="nofollow">Blog</a> | <a href="http://leto.net/gitweb/?p=Math-GSL.git" rel="nofollow">Code</a> | <a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Math-GSL" rel="nofollow">CPAN distribution</a> | <a href="http://leto.net/code/Math-GSL/2008/09/google-summer-of-code-2008-rec.html" rel="nofollow">Jonathan's Recap</a></p>
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Comments (1)
"Most of the students did a great job of blogging their progress"
it's good results indeed, because the most part of the students don't want even make their work.
