Updates from the XMPP Standards Foundation

The XMPP Standards Foundation, formerly known as the Jabber Software Foundation, joined us in 2007 for their third year of Summer of Code, and the results were once again superb. All six of XMPP's students successfully completed their projects, with incredibly cool results like Jingle support for Gajim. You can find more information, including links to final project summaries written by each student, in XMPP's program write up.

Congratulations to Armando, Bernardo, Brendan, Matthew, Tobias and Tomasz, as well as their mentors and the wider XMPP community, for another great showing in Summer of Code!

An Auspicious Start for Audacious

The Audacious Media Player project joined us this year for their first Summer of Code, and all four of their students successfully completed the program. We're also pleased to hear that each student's code has been merged into the project's Mercurial tree and much of their students' code has already been further enhanced by other Audacious developers.

Congratulations to Ben, Calin, Cristian and Tomasz, as well as their mentors and the wider Audacious community, for their fantastic first foray into Summer of Code!

Gazing at Gallery

The Gallery project joined us once again for Summer of Code 2007, and their results for this year were fantastic. All four of Gallery's students finished their projects this year, and some really exciting stuff, like support for SQLite, was added to the code base as a result of the program.

Congratulations to Adam, Brian, Camilo and UdayaKiran, as well as their mentors and the wider Gallery community, for another round of summer success!

Summer of Coders at Google: Sigurd Magnusson

After hanging out with us for the 2007 Mentor Summit, Sigurd Magnusson of SilverStripe CMS was kind enough to do an interview with Dion Almaer from our Developer Programs team.

Check out Dion's post for statistics from Ohloh on the work produced by SilverStripe's students this summer. And who would want to miss the video interview of Siggy in our own personal Tiki hut?

Summer of Coders at Google: Angela Byron

Following on from last week's Mentor Summit, we were fortunate enough to have two guests from the Drupal project visit us for a tech talk. Angela Byron, Summer of Coder extraordinaire, joined us along with her co-conspirator Geoff Butterfield, for a presentation on Implementing Drupal. Check out the video to learn more from Angie about the CMS' architecture and deploying Drupal sites. Added bonus, Geoff treats us to a taste of Drupal in action through a case study of edutopia.org, the website of the George Lucas Educational Foundation, where Geoff works as the foundation's Senior Technical Producer.

Many thanks to Angie and Geoff for joining us, and to Cat Allman from our Open Source Programs Office for hosting their talk!

A Moment with Moodle

Joining us for their second Summer of Code, the Moodle project took on nine students in 2007. Martin Dougiamas, the project's founder, sent us a great synopsis of their students' success this year:

• 2 created immediately useful components that were included in Moodle's new core release
• 4 created components slated for inclusion in their next release
• 1 created a component that will be maintained as a separate download
• 1 student created a proof of concept (voice support) that will be further developed in the future

You can get more details on each of Moodle's 2007 projects from their project wiki.

Congratulations to all of Moodle's students and mentors, as well as the wider Moodle community, for another successful Summer of Code!

CIFS, Samba and Summer of Code

Last week, Google hosted the inaugural CIFS Workshop, and we were fortunate enough to rope several members of the Samba team in for a podcast. You'll get a chance to hear Jeremy Allison give an overview of the CIFS Workshop, followed by a spirited discourse with seven more members of the Samba development team: Andrew Bartlett, Jelmer Vernooij, Gerald "Jerry" Carter, Kai Blin, Rafal Szczesniak, Stefan Metzmacher and Steve French. You'll get to hear about life as a Samba Summer of Code student from Jelmer and Kai, as well as some great advice on care and feeding of your student from several three-year veteran mentors. You'll also learn some tips for effective participation in the open source community overall, and a bit about the perils of working with such an intimidatingly famous group as these chaps.

And, what program podcast would be complete without stories of Winnebagos in flames and wifi-enabled poolsides in Alabama?

Many thanks to Andrew, Jelmer, Jeremy, Jerry, Kai, Rafal, Stefan and Steve for joining us, and many thanks to all of those who made the CIFS Workshop possible!

You can download the podcast in mp3 or ogg formats. Alternatively, you can subscribe to it.

We always love to hear from you, so if you have any thoughts on the podcast or, even better, stories to share from the Samba team's adventures, post a comment and share your thoughts with us.

Enjoy the show!

SilverStripe's Summer of Code

We just heard from the team at SilverStripe CMS that they've released version 2.1. Among the many cool features added in this release, there's a brand new security system created by Summer of Coder Markus Lanthaler.

It was SilverStripe's first year in the program, and their results were spectacular. 90% of their ten student projects were successfully completed, with all code written by Summer of Coders targeted for inclusion in their forthcoming 2.2 release. If you can't wait until around November for 2.2, you can already take a look at their students' code by checking out a daily build. You might also want to take a look at the screencast on Mateusz Ujma's work to add additional image functionality to the CMS.

Congratulations to all of SilverStripe's students and mentors, as well as the wider SilverStripe community, for their stellar initial foray into Summer of Code!