While being at WWDC I took a Monday off just after Keynote and drove to Googleplex in Mountain View. I had a pleasure to visit Google and meet with Leslie Hawthorn Project Manager for Google Summer of Code :-) I had a really great time there. Thank You for that opportunity. After a tour and lunch I had a Tech Talk: Introduction to MacLibre and OpenTouch. Projects I was talking about are both my Google Summer of Code projects: MacLibre GSoC 2006 & OpenTouch GSoC 2007. After tech talk I was interviewed by Leslie for Google Summer of Code podcast :-) Here are some photos that I took at Googleplex :-)

Post about my Tech Talk and Podcast Interview at Google Summer of Code blog

My Tech Talk: Introduction to MacLibre and OpenTouch at Google Video

Direct link to podcast interview in mp3 format

My presentation in pdf format at Google Summer of Code discuss group

Sounds strange, but I did forget about my photos from last year Google Hamburg visit. So today I decided to finally send them to Flickr. After Google Summer of Code 2006, Google was organizing “after GSoC meetings” at Google offices around the world. The nearest one from Wrocław was Hamburg and I decided to go (long drive by car , about 700 km) . It was really nice to have office tour and meet other GSoC students and Google software engineers. We also had a delicious dinner at Indian restaurant. I think it was Indian, but who knows :-) . If anyone is interested photos are available here.

I've tried to find all Polish SoC 2006 participants. You can find a list below. Did I miss anyone ?

I have also created a google group for polish students.

Group info:

• name: soc2006-pl
• home page: http://groups.google.com/group/soc2006-pl
• email address soc2006-pl@googlegroups.com

Polish SoC 2006 students:

Michał Spadliński
AntiVirus development
ClamAV

Radosław Zieliński
spamassassin-httpd-spamd
Apache

Maciej Katafiasz
Vertical writing support for Pango
Gnome

Andrzej Zaborowski
Linux 2.6 port for Palm Tungsten E
Handheld.org

Jakub Sławiński
Middlebox detector based on NDT
Internet2

Grzegorz Grasza
Real-time Wiki
Jabber Software Foundation

Maciej Niedzielski
Jabber HTTP-Auth Suite (Client/Server JEP-70 implementation)
Jabber Software Foundation

Maciej Fijałkowski
Ajax in python based on PyPy's JavaScript backend
Python Software Foundation

Michał Kwiatkowski
Cheesecake enhancements and its integration with PyPI.
Python Software Foundation

Mateusz Rukowicz
Decimal module in C.
Python Software Foundation

Karol Marek Langner
Base multidimensional array type for Python core
Python Software Foundation

Marcin Pertek
Python interface for writing Mozilla (NPAPI) plugins
Python Software Foundation

Michał Kotwicki
New Help system based on JDIC HTML
Project Looking Glass

Rafał Kwaśny
Build System
OpenSuSe

Łukasz Chróst
Improve mswsock.dll (resent)
WineProject

Mikołaj Zalewski
Shell integration
WineProject

Piotr Caban
Implementing Wine Ole View application
WineProject

Jan Wróbel
Firekeeper – browser level Intrusion Detection System
The Shmoo Group

Piotr Wolny
BitTorrent Class Libraries – GUI
The Mono Project

Marek Majkowski
Performance/QA Czar
Nmap Security Scanner

Paweł Sołyga
MacLibre 2 – new way of OS X free software distribution.
WinLibre

I'm writing after few days, but I'm still really excited that I will participate in Google Summer of Code 2006. From all applications sent, only 630 have been accepted. I'm one of them ;-) It looks like it will be a summer full of work related to MacLibre 2 project. Congratulations to all accepted students!

I will work with guys from WinLibre project.

Here is the list of accepted WinLibre projects (they've got 6 slots from google) and here is the official list on Google's Summer of Code webpage.

So the SoC 2006 is up again and I've got my project proposal for WinLibre mentor organization. The project name is: MacLibre 2 – new way of OS X free software distribution.

If you want to see my proposal draft have a look in pdf document.