Google Summer of Code Opportunities
Once again this year, Geeklog was given a green light to participate in Google’s Summer of Code Program (thanks again, Google!). That means it’s time to encourage students to apply not only pick up valuable experience but to also be a part of a top notch team which brings experience and youthful excitement to open source development.
Dirk Haun, who leads the 1.x branch of the Geeklog Code base, has officially announced our participation here. For those of you interested in the 2.x branch (which I hope many of you are), I want to point out a few things about the status of the project as a glance on Geeklog.net won’t give you the true impression of the work that’s been done this past year.
Geeklog 2 is a ground-up effort that I’ve been spearheading to retool Geeklog by taking advantage of the OO features in PHP5 as well as build on our experience with open source content management systems. An out-of-date roadmap has been published and I plan to update that roadmap this week for any who may be interested. To help illustrate this we anticipate the first alpha release of 2.x during the next week or so. This alpha release, while clearly not code complete, will show all the moving parts of Geeklog 2 in action, we hope, will generate some much needed excitement in the Geeklog community. In line with that we hope this move will also motivate many of you students looking to participate in this year’s Google Summer of Code to give a long, hard look at the Geeklog 2 ideas and apply.
More generally I had a great experience last year while on the Google campus and got a lot of really good ideas and I’d encourage any of you interested in participating to read my notes as they will give you ideas of the sorts of ideas we are tossing around. Obviously all open source projects live and die by their success in collaboration. That collaboration can even apply toward those of you considering applying to participate in our project there for I want to make it clear how I can be contacted:
- IM: Yahoo (tony_bibbs), MSN (tony [@] tonybibbs [.] com)
- IRC: irc.freenode.net in #geeklog (my nickname is IA-Outdoors)
- Skype (tony_bibbs)
email: tony [@] tonybibbs [.] com
Please feel free to use any of the methods above to ask me questions about Geeklog or about the proposed Geeklog 2 projects.