Oregon State University Open Source Lab

Our friends at OSUOSL have posted a write up on their Summer of Code experience this year. Some highlights:

• Darko Ilic, who joined us in 2005 working with Fedora on Kadischi, rolled up his sleeves this year to help OSUOSL's team working on the media player and encoder for the XO laptop.
• Seth Lemons worked on security and integration enhancements for cross-platform browsing on kiosks, built atop the Mozilla Gecko engine.
• Another returning student, Robert Wohleb, teamed up with Silas Snider to add support for Google Apps to Drupal, including single sign-on and provisioning of hosted domain accounts.

Check out OSUOSL's round up for more details, as well as some excellent advice for prospective Summer of Code participants.

Summer of Coders at OSCON

So we had a few technical difficulties with the video from our OSCON BoF, but our friends at SilverStripe CMS were nice enough to send us a write up of the evening's festivities. About twenty mentors, students and well-wishers convened at the BoF and headed out for pizza, and a merry time was had by all. In addition to the folks you can see in the write up photos, we were joined by Brenda Wallace and Penny Leach of Moodle mentor fame - yes, we had quite the New Zealander contingent - as well as Josh Berkus, organization administrator from Postgresql.

Special thanks to Greg Lund-Chaix of Oregon State University's Open Source Labs for leaving BeerForge 2.0 early to hang out with all of us and make sure we got to our final destination smoothly.

To all those of you who joined us, our sincerest thanks for coming and sharing your Summer of Code joys with us. For those of you who were unable to join us, we raised a glass for you. Needless to say, we're planning the same shindig for OSCON next year, so perhaps we'll see you then!