[Dspace-general] Accepted GSoC Student Proposals for 2008 Announced

[Mark Diggory]

Hello DSpace Community,

(Please excuse the cross posting)

Google has made its announcement and the results are public.

http://code.google.com/soc/2008/dspace/about.html

I would like to congratulate all the students that were accepted, say  
thank you to everyone that applied. All the applications were all  
very interesting this year. We had some serious decision making to  
do, it came right down to the wire and as the last votes came in this  
morning, the ranking changed yet again.

I would like to thank Xiaofei Dou and Adam Mikeal for what were  
excellent and well ranked applications that did get mentoring  
interest, but unfortunately we only received four slots this year and  
those could not be accepted. To everyone else who applied thank you  
and we wish you the best in your education and careers.

Note: while we have listed individuals as mentors on these  
applications, it really takes "a village" to make these projects work  
and mentorship may change when we sit down and discuss who and how  
many will be participating.  We will more officially announce mentors  
and backup mentors in the near future.  We most certainly need and  
welcome the communities input on these projects.

To all those interested, I would like to recommend that you join the  
various dspace listservs (http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/ 
DspaceResources#Mailing_Lists) and join us at irc:// 
irc.freenode.net#dspace when you have a moment to vist with everyone  
online!

I'm looking forward to the great discussions and creative energy that  
the DSpace community will benefit from in this coming year thanks to  
these Google Summer of Code projects.

Sincerely,
Mark

Begin forwarded message:
> From: "LH (Leslie Hawthorn)" <lhospo at gmail.com>
> Date: April 21, 2008 1:26:46 PM PDT
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> We've announced accepted student proposals for 2008 at http:// 
> code.google.com/soc/2008/
>
> For those who are interested in a few program stats for this year as
> compared to last year, please see the announcement on the Google Open
> Source Blog:
>
> http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2008/04/announcing-accepted- 
> student-proposals.html
>
> Cheers,
> LH
>

~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Mark R. Diggory - DSpace Developer and Systems Manager
MIT Libraries, Systems and Technology Services
Massachusetts Institute of Technology