Hi, It's time to announce the accepted applications for Beagle within Google's Summer of Code for 2006!
I was very happy with the quality of the applications I received. Google allocated us five slots -- a few fewer than I was hoping for, but a good number for a project of our size -- and it was extremely difficult to decide which projects to accept. There were several qualified applications for important projects that I think should be sponsored, and it was hard to have to turn some down. That said, it is my hope that we can find some additional funding for a few of these projects. I can't make any promises, but I am looking into the possibility. And now, onto the accepted projects! * Networked Searches (protocol) - Alexis Christoforides Alexis will be using .Net's HttpListener class and Beagle's XML messaging to implement searching across multiple machines. * Networked Searches (Avahi integration and UI) - Kyle W. Ambroff Kyle will be implementing broadcasting and automatic service discovery of other networked Beagle instances using Avahi, and tying search into the beagle-search user interface. * Dashboard - Fredrik Hedberg Fredrik will be tackling the task of resurrecting the Dashboard, revisiting its design and integrating it with applications like Firefox, Evolution, Gaim, OpenOffice, F-Spot, and Banshee. * Metadata/Association Browser - Max Wiehle Max will be working on a new project to browse the relationships between data, and making any needed changes to the Beagle infrastructure along the way. * Memory Profiling and Reduction - Dennis Snell Dennis will be working with Jon Trowbridge to enhance the heap-buddy profiling tool, making it easier to identify troublesome codepaths and ultimately identifying and improving bottlenecks in Beagle. Thank you to everyone who applied, and congrats to our students! This should be a great summer for Beagle development. Thanks, Joe _______________________________________________ Dashboard-hackers mailing list Dashboard-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dashboard-hackers