Archive for the 'SoC' Category

Keeping up

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

As a user and developer of a range of open source applications and frameworks there are issues I and others have to face on daily basis. Badly designed GUI, bad exception handling, instability, a huge pile of dependencies, bugs that call them selfs features, slow and inaccurate operation, unreadable fonts, huge memory leaks, outdated documentation, […]

Google Summer Of Code 2007

Thursday, March 15th, 2007

The student application period for this years edition of GSoC started today. A lot of new mentoring organizations were accepted this year, but Kiberpipa did not get in. And more surprisingly, neither did Django Project (my last years’ mentors). Too bad. I had a lot of fun with my project.
On that note… I’ve started to […]

When it rains…

Wednesday, May 24th, 2006

… life gets wonderful! :)
It’s unbelievable how can an email starting with:
Dear Applicant,
Congratulations! This email is being sent to inform you that your
application was accepted to take part in the Summer of Code.
make a rainy day one of the nicest days of the year! :)
Yes, my application for creating a “Full history for Django” backend […]

Summer Of Code 2006

Thursday, May 4th, 2006

Yes! The applications for student proposals for SoC 2006 opened on Monday.
I’ve added my proposals but I have some more ideas so I’ll probably write one or two more. Well, if all goes well one of my current ones has quite a chance to get accepted, so keep your fingers crossed. ;)
Google really made an […]