Google Summer of Code

Today I will be applying to the Google’s Summer of Code 2011 on behalf of the XSF - woo! The one thing that always makes it easy for Google to pick an organization is a large list of projects and students interested in our projects. 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]

The XSF will be applying this year to participate in Google’s Summer of Code 2011 and 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]

The Mentor’s and Students have all been working hard with their projects and they have reached an important milestone: the mid-term evaluations! As of a couple hours ago all of our evaluations have been submitted and they are ready to continue on towards the last half of the project. If you are interested in following along, you can see project updates as posted by each student in their respective blogs:[Read More]

As of 1900 UTC Monday, Google has published the list of accepted project for the Google Summer of Code and I’m very happy to report that four of the proposals to the XSF were accepted! Congratulations to Nicolas, Tobias, Zhenchao and Zhiwei for braving the process and getting accepted! Now the real work starts ;) – a great article to read is from the GSoCMentoring series I’m looking forward to working with them and their mentors in making this a great Summer of Code![Read More]

The deadline for Student Proposals has come and gone and the XSF has received quite a few proposals covering a wide range of topics, clients and servers! The initial process of determining who is available for mentoring and what number of project slots we will be requesting has started with Google making a first pass Monday evening. We should have information early in the process to start poking Mentors to start reviewing the proposals to prepare for the selection process.[Read More]

Just a reminder to folks (aka Students) that the deadline for Student Proposals is April 9th.

Please scan the list of projects and prepare your application submissions on the GSoC site.

We’re looking forward to a productive summer of XMPP coding and we hope you’ll be part of it.

Google has approved the XSF as a member organization for the 2010 Summer of Code! This is a great opportunity to evangelize the XSF to young students and hopefully “hook” them on developing applications that use XMPP technologies. Quite a few tasks are needed by members of the XSF to prepare us to receive students, one of the first is to get a list of projects for students to read about and consider.[Read More]

The XMPP Standards Foundation has helped support a number of open-source projects through Google’s Summer of Code program over the years. Although the XSF is not participating in the Google Summer of Code this year, a number of XMPP-related projects have been accepted by other mentoring organizations… On the JabberFr forums, “Misc” posted the full list: Pidgin: XMPP - libpurple transport, allowing servers to offer gateways to all the IM networks that Pidgin (or Adium) supports Privacy Rewrite, giving users powerful controls over “XMPP firewalling” Telepathy prpl, integrating Pidgin’s powerful Purple library with the GNOME Instant Messaging and Presence framework Apache Foundation: Extend the Vysper XMPP Server/Client with the publish-subscribe XEP (XEP-060) Python Foundation: Gajim: Whiteboard Implementation Adding support for server-side history and roster versioning in Gajim Gnome : GNOME-Games + Telepathy: Play GNOME-Sudoku with your IM contacts Implement Music Sharing in Banshee using the Telepathy API KDE : VoIP client for KDE (revive KCall) KDE - Conversation Logging Framework Turn Kopete chat window into a library Maemo : IM Client For Canola Using Python-purple At the XSF, we’re tremendously excited to see so much implementation of cutting edge technologies in so many widespread projects.[Read More]

At its meeting yesterday, the XMPP Council decided not to participate in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) for 2009. There are several reasons for this decision: Many of the longtime open-source projects in the XMPP community are quite mature but lacking in obvious mentors or even an open architecture of participation. On the other hand, there are many vibrant new projects in the community but they are not quite mature enough yet to provide a stable environment for student contributors.[Read More]

For the fourth year in a row, the XMPP Standards Foundation is participating in the Google Summer of Code. Our projects for 2008 are as follows: Mateusz Biliński (vArDo) – Plug-in system for Gajim (Mentor: Yann LeBoulanger) Adam Czachorowski (gislan) – Metacontacts support and various roster improvements for Psi (Mentor: Remko Tronçon) Tomas Karasek (tomk) – Bidirectional-streams Over Synchronous HTTP (XEP-0124) support in Gajim Jabber client (Mentor: Yann LeBoulanger) Aleksey Palazchenko (AlekSi) – Psi: Message history (Mentor: Kevin Smith) Safa Sofuoğlu (huni) – Updating and Improving BOSH Support of Openfire (Mentor: Gaston Dombiak) Paweł Wiejacha (senu) – Themable WebKit-based Chat Dialogs (Mentor: Kevin Smith) Here’s to another successful summer of coding![Read More]