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As of 1900 UTC Monday, Google has published the list of accepted project for the Google Summer of Code and I’m very happy to report that four of the proposals to the XSF were accepted!

Congratulations to Nicolas, Tobias, Zhenchao and Zhiwei for braving the process and getting accepted!

Now the real work starts ;)  — a great article to read is from the GSoCMentoring series

I’m looking forward to working with them and their mentors in making this a great Summer of Code!

The XMPP Standards Foundation has helped support a number of open-source projects through Google’s Summer of Code program over the years. Although the XSF is not participating in the Google Summer of Code this year, a number of XMPP-related projects have been accepted by other mentoring organizations…

On the JabberFr forums, “Misc” posted the full list:

• Pidgin:
  • XMPP – libpurple transport, allowing servers to offer gateways to all the IM networks that Pidgin (or Adium) supports
  • Privacy Rewrite, giving users powerful controls over “XMPP firewalling”
  • Telepathy prpl, integrating Pidgin’s powerful Purple library with the GNOME Instant Messaging and Presence framework
• Apache Foundation:
  • Extend the Vysper XMPP Server/Client with the publish-subscribe XEP (XEP-060)
• Python Foundation:
  • Gajim: Whiteboard Implementation
  • Adding support for server-side history and roster versioning in Gajim
• Gnome :
  • GNOME-Games + Telepathy: Play GNOME-Sudoku with your IM contacts
  • Implement Music Sharing in Banshee using the Telepathy API
• KDE :
  • VoIP client for KDE (revive KCall)
  • KDE – Conversation Logging Framework
  • Turn Kopete chat window into a library
• Maemo :
  • IM Client For Canola Using Python-purple

At the XSF, we’re tremendously excited to see so much implementation of cutting edge technologies in so many widespread projects. It’s a testement to the innovative nature of the XMPP community, and we’re looking forward to seeing – and using – the results.

Article by Misc, translated by Nicolas Vérité, edited by Dave Cridland.

At its meeting yesterday, the XMPP Council decided not to participate in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) for 2009. There are several reasons for this decision:

1. Many of the longtime open-source projects in the XMPP community are quite mature but lacking in obvious mentors or even an open architecture of participation. On the other hand, there are many vibrant new projects in the community but they are not quite mature enough yet to provide a stable environment for student contributors. Together these two factors mean that we would not be able to provide a suitably nurturing environment for introducing GSoC students to the ways of open source software development, which is the primary goal of the program.
2. Although the XMPP community has benefited from its participation in GSoC 2005-2008, it might be fair to let other open-source communities have a chance to take part rather than hogging resources during a year when we think we wouldn’t be able to take full advantage of the program.
3. GSoC is very rewarding but it is a lot of work for the mentors and the organization admin (c’est moi), and the Council members felt it would be inefficient to spend a great deal of time and energy on the program this year given the considerations cited above.

That said, we hope to have the chance to participate again in 2010 so that we can continue on the path to world domination for XMPP technologies.

–Peter Saint-Andre

For the fourth year in a row, the XMPP Standards Foundation is participating in the Google Summer of Code. Our projects for 2008 are as follows:

• Mateusz Biliński (vArDo) — Plug-in system for Gajim (Mentor: Yann LeBoulanger)
• Adam Czachorowski (gislan) — Metacontacts support and various roster
  improvements for Psi (Mentor: Remko Tronçon)
• Tomas Karasek (tomk) — Bidirectional-streams Over Synchronous HTTP (XEP-0124) support in Gajim Jabber client (Mentor: Yann LeBoulanger)
• Aleksey Palazchenko (AlekSi) — Psi: Message history (Mentor: Kevin Smith)
• Safa Sofuoğlu (huni) — Updating and Improving BOSH Support of Openfire (Mentor: Gaston Dombiak)
• Paweł Wiejacha (senu) — Themable WebKit-based Chat Dialogs (Mentor: Kevin Smith)

Here’s to another successful summer of coding!

Although the Google Summer of Code ended weeks ago, we neglected to post a final summary. All of the XMPP-related projects ended successfully and all of our students continue to contribute to the community. You can download their code here and you can view final project reports from our students at the following links:

• Armando Diaz-Jagucki on PEP support in the Openfire server
• Bernardo Antonio de la Ossa Pérez on Extended Stanza Addressing support in the ejabberd server
• Brendan Taylor on Encrypted Sessions support in the Gajim client
• Matthew Wild on HTTP Binding / BOSH support in the gloox library
• Tobias Markmann on his Data Forms designer
• Tomasz Melcer on Jingle support in the Gajim client

Congratulations to all our students and thanks to all our mentors!

Google has announced the 2007 Summer of Code projects, and the XSF projects are as follows:

• Bidirectional-streams Over Synchronous HTTP (BOSH) Support in gloox (Student: Matthew James Wild, Mentor: Jakob Schröter)
• Data Form Designer Suite for XMPP (Student: Tobias Markmann, Mentor: Kevin Smith)
• Encrypted Sessions Test Suite and Implementation (Student: Brendan Taylor, Mentor: Yann Le Boulanger)
• Extended Stanza Addressing and Other XEPs in ejabberd (Student: Bernardo Antonio de la Ossa Pérez, Mentor: Mickaël Rémond)
• Jingle Audio/Video in Gajim (Student: Tomasz Melcer, Mentor: Yann Le Boulanger)
• Personal Eventing in Openfire (Student: Armando Diaz-Jagucki, Mentor: Gaston Dombiak)

Let’s start coding!

The XMPP Standards Foundation will once again be participating in the Google Summer of Code for 2007. What is a standards organization doing in the Summer of Code? Well, the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) emerged from the Jabber open-source community and we still have many active open-source projects. Plus as previously mentioned our community is a cohesive blend of open standards, commercial organizations, and open-source developers. Here at the XSF we usually focus on the open standards part of the equation, but we actively work to encourage the creation of open-source code, too. So check out out project ideas and send in an application!

UPDATE: If you apply, ignore the mention of the application template — you do not need to fill that out in order to apply!