Google/PSU Summer of Code

Google generously sponsored 8 students through PSU for Summer of Code 2005. Each of these students produced source code in a period from early July through September 1. The students also produced web documentation of their work, and made source repositories available to those interested in using or contributing to it. The projects were as follows…

• Several students worked on projects in Software-Defined Radio under the auspices of Google Summer of Code and with additional financial support for hardware purchases from the Northwest Academic Computing Consortium. More information about these projects is available on the PSU SDR wiki.
  • Jamey Sharp: An 802.11 software receiver.
  • Sarah Bailey: Spread-spectrum telemetry for the Portland State Aerospace Society LV2 sounding rocket.
  • Isaac Carroll: An SDR front-end for Andrew Greenberg's GPL-GPS.
• Dennis Weyland (U. Dortmund): Quantum circuit simulator.
• Mick Thomure: Machine-learning for spam filtering under Thunderbird.
• Daniel Mendyke: IP over IR.
• Wren Argetlahm: XML web content/presentation management.
• Candy Yiu: Rendering new Chinese characters, esp. Qin notation.

All 8 projects were quite successful. All projects have been released under OSI-approved open source licenses. Candy has already presented her work at a technical conference. Several of the projects have gotten outside attention from potential open source contributors. All of the projects are currently continuing to move forward, even without further financial support from Google.

We are extremely grateful to the Google folks, especially open source lead Chris DiBona, for giving the students the opportunity to spend a large portion of their Summer developing their open source projects in a productive environment. Let's hope Google finds their way clear to do this again soon!