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Summer of Code Wrap-up

September 17, 2007 7:34 pm gman OpenSolaris

The Summer of Code for 2007 has finished. All in all it was a pretty successful summer, although only 2 of the 4 students completed the program to the end. John did some excellent work on re-writing the encumbered internationalization code, and looks in great shape for integration in the near future. Tom did a fantastic job with porting Mlucas to the Solaris platform, and is now record holding on OpenSolaris/Sparc64 VI. I think everyone involved in the program, both mentors and students, learned heaps and I hope it was valuable to them. From an OpenSolaris point of view, we still have a bit of work to do both in identifying well defined projects with well planned steps to completion for next years participation, and continuing to reduce the bar for new people getting involved. Thanks heaps to Google for selecting us and to everyone involved this year – it continues, in my opinion, to be a very important indicator for where we are in terms of community building, and I’m looking forward to Rob Giltrap taking over the administration reigns for next year.