Haiku has listed the accomplishments of Haiku's Summer of Code students. "2007 Was our first year involved in the Google Summer of Code. Looking back on it, it is easy to say that it was a resounding success. We were able to handle 8 students. Work accomplished included a mostly-complete FireWire stack, major improvements in networking, and more."
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Member since:2007-03-20
I think you are missing the larger point of the post you are replying to.
The relative lack of comments @ OSNews of all places on this topic is making that point (about a third of them are mine, even).
I won't take much time to debate what you stated, but as you can plainly see ( http://haiku-os.org/tags/gsoc ), there was not that much on the website about GSoC over the summer. A handful of blog posts. I'm on the primary mailing list, not much happened there either. I follow the project more than 99.999% of the world, and this is my perspective.
Of course I think it was a great thing Haiku was part of GSoC. Congrats to all involved! Good code, good money.
Let's put some more 'marketing' behind the effort next time, and it will be good publicity too. I'll be sure to volunteer in 2008. Thanks.
Member since:2005-08-07
there was not that much on the website about GSoC over the summer. A handful of blog posts. I'm on the primary mailing list, not much happened there either. I follow the project more than 99.999% of the world, and this is my perspective.
Am I the only one who sees this as a colossal missed opportunity on your part? You say you followed it closely--more so than "99.999% of the world" even--so why haven't you put together a blog post or OSNews.com article on the subject and submit it to Slashdot?
That way you get the information you think is important out to the public as well as garnering more publicity for the project?
--bornagainpenguin
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2005-07-11
What spelling and grammar mistakes are you speaking of?
Presentation not nice,ummm..okay.. but that's opinion.
As far as your complaint that you have not heard much, well, if you don't follow it, then your not going to hear much.
There was mail list, there were the student blogs on the website, there was activity on IRC, there was code check in's.
I haven't heard a single thing about any other GSoC projects.
I think the students took on some very difficult tasks to complete over a short summer. Congrats on their successes.