Sounds Like Summer

Google Summer of Code™ 2008 is (almost) on! Last year, we funded over 900 students' projects in more than 90 countries, producing millions of lines of code. We're very excited to be doing Google Summer of Code once more, and we're looking forward to helping the community find more new contributors and produce even more code for everyone's benefit.

We won't be accepting applications until March, so in the interim check out the FAQs for more information. You can find us hanging out in #gsoc on Freenode or on the program discussion list. We would love to hear from you, so please come and join us.

CLAM 1.2 Released

Our friends with the C++ Library and Audio Music (CLAM) project have recently announced their 1.2 release, including substantial new contributions to the code base made by their Summer of Code 2007 students. Andreas Calvo Gomez created a new plugin system, enabling third party algorithms to be distributed separately from the core binaries. Other Summer of Coders created several plugins, including an SMS Synthesizer created by Greg Kellum, and one allowing CLAM to perform voice synthesis and analysis by Abe Kazemzadeh. Both Hernan Hordiales and Roman Goj also contributed code added to the project's main repository, working on SMS transformations and tonal analysis, respectively.

Congratulations to the CLAM project on their release, and many congratulations to Abe, Andreas, Greg, Hernan, and Roman for their contributions to it!

On a side note, you might want to check out the new Google Open Source Blog for news about our Highly Open Participation Contest Grand Prize winners.

It's 9:23 Pacific time / 17:23 UTC and 49° Fahrenheit / 9° Celsius here in sunny California. It's starting to feel like summer is just around the corner....