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Wed, 24 May 2006

Debian in Google Summer of Code 2006
Category: Debian

Congratulations to all whose projects were accepted, Debian received 60 eligible proposals, many of those were great projects which we would have loved to accept but we only had 10 slots that are paid for by Google so the competition was tough.

The accepted projects are:

  • "Improve the boot system" by Carlos Villegas
  • "Translation Coordination System" by Gintautas Miliauskas
  • "BTS GUI front-end" by Philipp Kern
  • "debian-cd-ng" by Carlos Parra Camargo
  • Debtags, using AI classifiers for automating the tagging of Debian packages" by Alex de Landgraaf
  • "Distribution wide-tracker tools (DWTT) and collaborative repository of meta-informations about source packages (CRMI)" by Arnaud Fontaine
  • "Automation of Debian Based live-cd creation process" by Robert Pickel
  • "Improve Britney, the scripts used to update testing" by FABIO TRANCHITELLA
  • "Debian installer on Debian GNU/Hurd" by Matheus Eduardo B. Morais
  • "BitTorrent Extensions" by Matthew Wronka

All the accepted projects received email to them and their mentor, if you are a student whose project wasn't accepted, we'd still be happy if you will do the project even without the funding, if you need a helping hand or a mentor we will surely be happy to help you out, contact me at baruch@debian.org.

The plan is that students who have a blog or setup one for the Summer of Code will be added to Planet Debian so everyone can follow their progress on their quest to help Debian improve.

Cheers and thanks to everyone who helped make this happen!
Baruch Even
Debian SoC coordinator

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