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- Between OPW and GSoC, 2013 Will Be a Summer of Awesome
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- :date: 2013-05-27 17:45
- :author: Christopher Allan Webber
- Earlier I wrote about how this year we are
- `participating in Google Summer of Code and GNOME Outreach Program for Women </news/opw-gsoc-2013.html>`_.
- Well, we just got announced all the students we're accepting. It's
- quite a few in quite a few awesome areas! In alphabetical order:
- - Aditi Mittal (mentored by Sebastian Spaeth) will be building a new
- media type for... blogging! By doing blogging as a media type we
- should be able to compete with media/blogging hybrid systems like
- Tumblr without compromising on MediaGoblin's core design.
- - Emily O'Leary (mentored by me, Christopher Allan Webber) will be
- improving our test suite and helping with bug triage.
- - Jessica Tallon (mentored by Joar Wandborg) will be
- building... that's right!... federation support for MediaGoblin
- through the
- `Pump API <https://github.com/e14n/pump.io/blob/master/API.md>`_.
- Jessica has a rare hyper-qualification for this, already working on
- a `PyPump library <https://github.com/xray7224/PyPump>`_. We're
- already talking about various improvements to that library's API to
- make it fit well into MediaGoblin and to ease federation for other
- systems too!
- - Natalie Foust-Pilcher (mentored by Aeva Palecek through Outreach
- Program for Women) will be working on building us an awesome new
- administrative interface!
- - Praveen Kumar (mentored by me, Christopher Allan Webber) will be
- adding a search interface to MediaGoblin! A long running request!
- - Rodney Ewing (mentored by Aaron Williamson) will be working on
- making our user authentication system super flexible and
- pluginified with multiple new backends! He's already making great
- progress!
-
- The main problem we had this year is that (and really, I do mean this)
- we had so many awesome applications this year that picking between
- them was very tough. And I can say this with some experience: I've
- done mentoring for Summer of the Code in the past and I can say that
- I've never seen so many amazing proposals at once.
- One thing's for sure though: this summer is going to be awesome. Go
- go goblins!
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