XSF GSoC Students 2015

 Posted on April 28, 2015 |  1 minutes |  Google Summer of Code |  kev

This year, we’ve been lucky enough to have had many great applications to take part in Google Summer of Code under the XSF. We’ve selected the following six students/projects and are looking forward to working with them over an exciting summer: Tarun Gupta: Extend Stroke Implementation Daniel Baczynski: Multi-account support in Swift Ishan Khanna: Add support for XMPP Serverless Messaging (XEP-174) to Smack Marvin W: Add support for DNSSEC to Smack via MiniDNS srtb: Axolotl support for Conversations Adhish Singla: Prototyping tools, for Internet of Things This should be a great summer for the students, and for all the projects involved.[Read More]

XMPP in Google Summer of Code 2015

 Posted on March 3, 2015 |  1 minutes |  Google Summer of Code |  kev

We’ve just had the great news that Google have again accepted the XSF to mentor XMPP-related projects in the Google Summer of Code this year. GSoC is a programme whereby Google pays students a stipend to work on open source projects for the summer, and when we’re able to participate in this it’s a highlight of the year for us. If you are, or know any, talented students with an interest in realtime communication systems we’ve got a selection of interesting projects at http://wiki.[Read More]

Google Summer of Code 2014

 Posted on February 28, 2014 |  1 minutes |  Google Summer of Code |  laura

While the XSF may not be mentoring a project in this years Google’s Summer of Code 2014 - we sure can celebrate and shout about the fact that some of the projects include XMPP as part of their project ideas! The Jitsi project has several projects relating to WebRTC, XMPP and the Jitsi Videobridge. XMPP/Jingle/WebRTC also plays a role in Mozilla’s project ideas for InstantBird. To name just a few…[Read More]

And our GSoC students are...

 Posted on April 29, 2012 |  1 minutes |  Google Summer of Code |  florian

It’s with great pleasure that we would like to share with you the list of students that have been selected to participate in the Google Summer of Code 2012 for the XMPP Standards Foundation. Cătălin Badea Conversation history support for Swift Denis Washington PubSub HTTP Interface for buddycloud Mateusz Piękos Swift - Whiteboarding Pawel Domas XMPP-Jitsi: PseudoTCP Rodrigo Duarte An XMPP Media Server sarangbh Twitter Backend for Spectrum Yoann Blein Swift - Screen Sharing Congratulations to all of you, and thanks to everyone who submitted an idea for this year.[Read More]

GSoC 2012 Student Application deadline approaching

 Posted on April 3, 2012 |  1 minutes |  Google Summer of Code |  florian

It’s great to see this many applications for GSoC projects so far, but there are still a few days left to apply. So if you’re a student and interested in participating in the Google Summer of Code, head on over to our GSoC 2012 Wiki page and find out what projects are looking for your help. The deadline for Students to apply is April 6th at 6pm UTC, so be sure to apply before then.[Read More]

Another Summer of Code

 Posted on March 21, 2012 |  1 minutes |  Google Summer of Code |  stpeter

We’re happy to announce that the XSF has been accepted to participate in the Google Summer of Code for 2012. See our wiki page for details. We still have time to add project ideas to the list there, so if you participate in an XMPP-related codebase feel free to get involved!

XSF Welcomes Google Summer of Code 2011 Students

 Posted on April 26, 2011 |  1 minutes |  Google Summer of Code |  bear

With the selection process over, we now know that the XSF will be working with five students for the 2011 Google Summer of Code! Abmar Grangeiro de Barros - Pubsub Search Engine and Crawler Kunal Kerkar - Implementing Jingle Relay Nodes, STUN support and CAPTCHA plugin in Prosody Jefry Lagrange - Stream Management in Gajim Tobias Markmann - Jingle based File-Transfer Support in Swift(-en) Vlad Voicu - Swift: Conversation History Everyone remember to welcome them and let’s all work towards another successful GSoC.[Read More]

GSoC Student Application deadline tomorrow

 Posted on April 7, 2011 |  1 minutes |  Google Summer of Code |  bear

If you are a student submitting a project for the XSF’s GSoC 2011 please remember that the deadline for submission is Fri, April 8, 12:00 – 13:00 (GMT).

You have until this deadline to update your submission and respond to review questions - after this deadline the ability to edit will be gone.

Google Summer of Code 2011 - we are in!

 Posted on March 18, 2011 |  1 minutes |  Google Summer of Code |  bear

The XSF has been invited to participate in Google’s Summer of Code 2011! Great job by everyone in making our application something the Goog couldn’t resist ;) But now the real work begins! We need the help of XMPP project members in getting a list of summer project ideas together! So, if you’re an XMPP project and would like to participate in GSoC under the XSF’s umbrella, please visit the Summer of Code 2011 wiki page and start adding ideas of projects you would like to mentor.[Read More]