Google/PSU Summer of Code

Here, in no particular order, are the students and mentor who will be participating in Summer of Code projects supervised by Bart Massey in 2007. Congratulations to those students and mentors participating, and thanks to all of you, accepted or not, for the work you put into making this program a success.

Google/PSU Summer of Code

Our proud tradition continues. Google was quite generous with slots for us this year; we look forward to many successes.

• Douglas McKenzie
  autoAuto - A mechanical simulation package for amateur motorsport
  Mentor: David Allen
• Sean McLaughlin
  A Formal Proof in Algebra: The Fundamental Theorem of Galois Theory
  Mentor: Thomas Harke
• Arnoldo Jose Muller Molina
  A distributed similarity search engine: matching Xenarthras and ...
  Mentor: Cynthia Brown
• Yevgeny Binder
  Using Software Defined Radio for Aircraft Navigation
  Mentor: Erik Walthinsen
• Chris Wu
  Linear algebra package for Sympy
  Mentor: Mike Haertel
• Bhuricha Deen Sethanandha
  TracMetrix: Integrated project tracking and metrics repository
  Mentor: Bart Massey
• Spencer Janssen
  XHSB: an X binding for Haskell, based on XCB
  Mentor: Jamey Sharp

Google/X.Org Summer of Code

This year marks the first that Bart Massey is running Google Summer of Code for X.Org also. There were some very tough competitors for these slots; we only had three.

• Tiago Vignatti
  Moving the mouse handling code into a separate thread
  Mentor: Daniel Stone
• Thomas Hunger
  Generating the XCB C code in Python
  Mentor: Anselm R. Garbe
• Andrew Howe
  Server Side XCB
  Mentor: Ian Osgood

X.Org Vacation of Code

In response to the large number of quality proposals received for Google/X.Org Summer of Code that could not be funded by Google, the X.Org Foundation Board voted unanimously to fund proposals itself. This is the first year for the X.Org "Vacation of Code" program; we hope it will be a success, and can be repeated in the future.

• Arthur Huillet
  Xv support for Nouveau driver
  Mentor: Alexander Deucher
• Nicolas Martyanoff
  Patent-free S3TC compression implementation for Mesa
  Mentor: Brian Paul
• Philipp Heise
  XCBScope/Dissector-Library
  Mentor: Matthias Hopf

Again, thanks to all of you who applied.