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Google Summer of Code students announced

Posted by Sigurd on 12 April 2007

We're delighted to announce the ten students working with us over coming months, thanks (very much) to Google's Summer of Code program.

We are still finalising which mentor will work with the students, and refining the exact projects from the ideas I originally posted.

Students and tentative project overviews... 

  • Bernat Foj Capell, Spain (internationalisation/localisation support)
  • Elijah Lofgren, USA (Improve CMS Usability)
  • Lakshan Perera, Sri Lanka (Mashup)
  • Markus Lanthaler, Italy (OpenID support, security system)
  • Mateusz Ujma, Poland (Photo editing, image garbage collection)
  • Meg Risen, USA (Usability / Mashup)
  • Ofir Picazo Navarro, Mexico (Google Maps support)
  • Philipp Krenn, Austria (Postgres / Microsoft SQL support)
  • Quin Hoxie, USA (Tabular and graphical reporting engine)
  • Will Scott, USA (SEO: Adwords/Google Sitemaps)

Mentors...

  • Brian Calhoun
  • Matt Peel
  • Hayden Smith
  • Ingo Schommer
  • Sam Minnee
  • Sean Harvey
  • Sigurd Magnusson

 

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  • Hey all!

    Just another Summer of Code student checking in. I'm going to be working on search engine optimization work this summer. I feel like the ten of us are going to add a lot to silverstripe, and end up with some really amazing results at the end of the summer.

    Posted by Will Scott, 13/04/2007 8:06pm (1 year ago)

  • great to be part of the team!

    i'm really looking forward to working together with all of you - i'm sure it will be an awesome summer :)

    Posted by xeraa, 12/04/2007 9:46pm (1 year ago)

  • Thanks for all the support and wishes from the community. I'll give my best to enhance SilverStripe further.

    Good luck to all others selected as well :)

    Posted by Lakshan, 12/04/2007 9:01pm (1 year ago)

  • sounds great!

    good luck...

    Posted by maetl, 12/04/2007 8:11pm (1 year ago)

  • This is very, very cool and I can't wait to see how SilverStripe flourishes with the extra attention!

    Posted by Sarah, 12/04/2007 6:51pm (1 year ago)

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