News: Summer Of Code Applications #20

2006-05-27, Aleksey Bragin
Summer Of Code Applications
The chosen applications for Google SoC

Summer Of Code: Winning applications for ReactOS project

It's time to announce the results of the first phase of Google Summer Of Code project.
Some statistics: ReactOS has got 4 slots (our number desired projects was 12), and got around ~30 applications (plus 4 applications were classified as ineligible, and 2 more has been redirected to Google).

Results:

ReactOS Print Spooler Service (spoolsv) by Peter Windridge, mentored by Alex Ionescu.
Remote Desktop Client application & ActiveX control by Michele Cicciotti, mentored by Alex Ionescu
Login System by Justin Haygood, mentored by Thomas Weidenmueller
Clipboard Server API implementation by Pablo Borobia, mentored by Thomas Weidenmueller

I congratulate the winning students, they did a great job at picking up complex, but interesting and needed topics, and providing applications, which showed they are capable of performing these tasks.
However, students who were rejected shouldn't feel like loosers, their apps were great too (we could take 8 more apps), but this time we weren't given them since there are other orgs which need slots too. I would highly appreciate if some of the "rejected" students would consider implementing his stuff even without sponsorship (possibly aiming at SoC 2007).

And, I want to thank Alex Ionescu for picking up the most of administrative work from me, participating in SoC administrators mailing list, and Thomas Weidenmueller, Filip Navara and Magnus Olsen for ranking applications and their will to be mentors.

Certainly, the big thanks goes to Google for making it possible, and for accepting ReactOS in SoC!

Aleksey Bragin,
ReactOS Project Coordinator

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