Hi Giovanni,
Whats the meaning of "None of the projects, except one, are still being 
worked on"? the projects were left or it is not nothing else necessary 
to do? (I really does not beleive the last one, but it is always 
possible)
Anyway... is there a place to propose or discuss 2008 projects? as I 
said in #squeak, I want to apply for mentor in a project to make a 
OpenDBX plugin, to be used in squeak plain or with Glorp (I have the 
student who is going to make the plugin to :) ).

Thanks,
Esteban

On 2008-03-02 20:04:21 -0200, "giovanni" <giovanni at corriga.net> said:

> Hi all,
> 
> in no more than two weeks, the 2008 edition of the Google Summer of Code will
> start. It has been brought to my attention that I never sent a final report
> for last year's edition, so here it is.
> 
> Last year we partecipated in the Summer of Code with five students: Damien
> Cassou, Mathieu Suen, Jerome Chaveau, Ben Schroeder, and Oleg Korsak. You can
> learn more about their projects by visiting the Summer of Squeak blog, at
> http://blog.summer.squeak.org/ . All the five students completed their
> projects, and were paid in full by Google. Of the five projects, only one
> (the New Compiler project by Mathieu Suen) is still being worked on. Damien
> has stopped working on Monticello 2, but Colin has remused the work on that,
> even though he's not using Damien's code. I have no news about the other
> three projects. Guys, would you mind sending a quick status report?
> 
> For their effort, we received 2500 USD, which are currently in my current
> account. My apologies for not having sent them to Esug yet, but the cheque
> from Google arrived while I was moving to London, so after putting it into my
> account, I kinda set it aside. I'll wire the money to the Esug treasurer
> asap.
> 
> To sum up, here are the positives and negatives for last year's SoC:
> 
> Positives
> - Five students got to be paid for their work, and we got paid for mentoring
> them, too.
> - We got lots of visibility
> 
> Negatives
> - None of the projects, except one, are still being worked on
> - With the possible exception of the new compiler project, the SoC projects
> did not have any impact on the main Squeak image.
> 
> This brings us to the other part of my message, which is the 2008 edition of
> the Summer of Code. Unless the board decides otherwise, I'm willing to lead
> the SoC team to apply and possibly partecipate in this year's SoC. In
> comparison to last year's effort, I propose two changes:
> 
> - we apply as "Squeak Foundation" instead of simply "Squeak". This would
> allow us to include other projects such as Seaside, Croquet etc more easily.
> - we choose more "down to earth" projects that have a bigger possibility of
> being included in the software we release (the main Squeak image, Seaside,
> Croquet etc).
> 
> There are also some more modifications which I'll propose on the SoC mailing
> list.
> 
> As usual, comments and flames are welcome.
> 
>         Ciao,
> 
>                 Giovanni