This is a page lists the students and organizations that participated in the Google Summer of Code 2008 program. If you you are interested in the latest program information, see the [main Summer of Code page](https://developers.google.com/open-source/soc). ### Participating Organizations - [AbiSource](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#abisource) - [Adium](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#adium) - [ArgoUML](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#argouml) - [The Apache Software Foundation](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#asf) - [atheme.org](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#atheme) - [Audacity](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#audacity) - [BBC Research](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#bbc) - [Blender Foundation](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#blender) - [BlueZ](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#bluez) - [Boost C++](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#boost) - [BRL-CAD](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#brl) - [BZFlag](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#bzflag) - [Cairo](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#cairo) - [Creative Commons](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#cc) - [Comprehensive C Archive Network (CCAN)](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#ccan) - [ChristmasFuture](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#christmas) - [CLAM (at Universitat Pompeu Fabra)](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#clam) - [Codehaus](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#codehaus) - [Coppermine Photo Gallery](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#coppermine) - [coresystems GmbH](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#coresystems) - [Crystal Space](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#crystal) - [Center for the Study of Complex Systems, Univ. of Michigan](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#cscs) - [Debian](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#debian) - [Dirac Schrodinger](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#dirac) - [Django](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#django) - [Dojo Foundation](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#dojo) - [The DragonFly BSD Project](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#dragonfly) - [Drupal](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#drupal) - [DSPACE FOUNDATION](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#dspace) - [The Eclipse Foundation](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#eclipse) - [The Electronic Frontier Foundation](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#eff) - [The Enlightenment Project](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#enlightenment) - [ES operating system](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#esos) - [Etherboot Project](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#etherboot) - [The Fedora Project \& JBoss.org](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#fedora) - [FFmpeg](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#ffmpeg) - [The FreeBSD Project](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#freebsd) - [The Free Software Initiative of Japan](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#fsij) - [Gallery](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#gallery) - [GCC](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#gcc) - [The gEDA Project](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#geda) - [Geeklog](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#geeklog) - [GenMAPP](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#genmapp) - [Gentoo](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#gentoo) - [GIMP - GNU Image Manipulation Program](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#gimp) - [Git Development Community](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#git) - [The Globus Alliance](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#globus) - [GNOME](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#gnome) - [GNU Project](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#gnu) - [Gnumeric](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#gnumeric) - [GNUstep](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#gnustep) - [Google](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#google) - [GStreamer](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#gstreamer) - [Project Hackystat](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#hackystat) - [Haiku](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#haiku) - [haskell.org](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#haskell) - [Mercurial (a project of the Software Freedom Conservancy)](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#hg) - [GNU Hurd](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#hurd) - [Hypertriton, Inc.](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#hypertriton) - [International Components for Unicode](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#icu) - [Ingres](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#ingres) - [Inkscape](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#inkscape) - [Internet Archive](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#intarch) - [Internet2](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#internet2) - [Jato](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#jato) - [Jikes RVM](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#jikesrvm) - [Joomla](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#joomla) - [K-3D](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#k3d) - [KDE](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#kde) - [Linden Lab (Second Life)](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#linden) - [The Linux Foundation](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#linux) - [LispNYC](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#lispnyc) - [LLVM Compiler Infrastructure](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#llvm) - [MacPorts](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#macports) - [MetaBrainz Foundation Inc.](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#metabrainz) - [Computer Systems Research Group, Vrije Universiteit (MINIX)](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#minix) - [Mixxx](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#mixxx) - [MoinMoin Wiki Project](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#moin) - [Mono Project](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#mono) - [Moodle](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#moodle) - [The Mozilla Project](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#mozilla) - [MySQL](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#mysql) - [NCSA - The National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#ncsa) - [NESCent - National Evolutionary Synthesis Center](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#nescent) - [The NetBSD Project](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#netbsd) - [NetSurf](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#netsurf) - [Neuros Technology](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#neuros gathering ideas)) - [Nmap Security Scanner](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#nmap) - [The ns-3 Project](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#ns3) - [Natural User Interface Group](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#nuig) - [OAR](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#oar) - [OGRE](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#ogre) - [Ohloh Corporation](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#ohloh) - [One Laptop per Child](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#olpc) - [OMII-UK](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#omii) - [Open64](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#open64) - [OpenAFS](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#openafs) - [OpenChange (a project of the Software Freedom Conservancy)](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#openchange) - [OpenICC](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#openicc) - [OpenInkpot](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#openinkpot) - [OpenMoko Inc.](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#openmoko) - [OpenMRS](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#openmrs) - [OpenNMS](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#opennms) - [Open Source Applications Foundation](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#osaf) - [Ohio Supercomputer Center](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#osc) - [OSCAR](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#oscar) - [OSGeo - Open Source Geospatial Foundation](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#osgeo) - [OSSIM: Open Source Security Information Management](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#ossim) - [Oregon State University Open Source Lab (OSU OSL)](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#osuosl) - [Open Security Foundation (OSVDB)](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#osvdb) - [hugin/panotools](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#pano) - [Pardus project](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#pardus) - [Thousand Parsec](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#parsec) - [The Java PathFinder Team](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#pathfinder) - [Pentaho](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#pentaho) - [The Perl Foundation](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#perl) - [PHP](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#php) - [Pidgin](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#pidgin) - [Plazi Verein](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#plazi) - [PlanetMath.org, Ltd.](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#plmath) - [Plone Foundation](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#plone) - [PostgreSQL project](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#postgres) - [Zikula Application Framework](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#postnuke) - [Python Software Foundation](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#psf) - [Portland State University](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#psu) - [Ptolemy Project, University of California, Berkeley](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#ptolemy) - [R Foundation for Statistical Computing](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#rf) - [Rockbox](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#rockbox) - [RTEMS Project](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#rtems) - [Ruby Central](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#ruby) - [Sahana](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#sahana) - [Sakai Foundation and IMS Global Learning Consortium](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#sakai) - [Samba](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#samba) - [SCons next-generation build system](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#scons) - [Scribus Team](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#scribus) - [ScummVM](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#scummvm) - [Simple DirectMedia Layer](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#sdl) - [The Software Freedom Conservancy](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#sfc) - [Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#siai) - [SIP Communicator](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#sipcomm) - [The Squeak Project](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#squeak) - [OpenStreetMap](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#streetmap) - [Subclipse](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#subclipse) - [openSUSE](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#suse) - [Subversion](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#svn) - [Swarm Development Group (SDG)](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#swarm) - [SWIG](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#swig) - [The SYSLINUX Project](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#syslinux) - [Tcl/Tk Community](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#tcl) - [TeX Users Group](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#tex) - [Translate Toolkit \& Pootle](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#translate) - [TurboGears](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#turbogears) - [Tux4Kids](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#tux4kids) - [Umit](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#umit) - [OLAT, University of Zurich](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#uzh) - [VideoLAN](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#videolan) - [Vim](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#vim) - [The WebKit Open Source Project](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#webkit) - [Battle for Wesnoth](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#wesnoth) - [Wikimedia Foundation](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#wikimedia) - [The Wine Project](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#wine) - [WinLibre](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#winlibre) - [WordPress](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#wordpress) - [WorldForge](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#worldforge) - [wxPython](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#wxpython) - [wxWidgets](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#wxwidgets) - [XBMC](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#xbmc) - [Xiph.org Foundation](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#xiph) - [XMMS2 - X(cross)platform Music Multiplexing System](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#xmms2) - [XMPP Standards Foundation](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#xmpp) - [The X.Org Foundation](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#xorg) - [XWiki](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#xwiki) - [Zope Foundation, Inc](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#zope) - [Zumastor](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/2008#zumastor) ## AbiSource **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) The AbiSource community consists of a highly skilled group of people interested in, as our tagline states, bringing Word Processing to Everyone. We do this for example by making our software, AbiWord being our flagship product, available on as many (operating) systems as possible, and adapting it for use on the One Laptop Per Child system. ### Projects - #### Getting rid of non-portable library use in AbiWord/Gtk+ by Robert Staudinger, mentored by Dominic Lachowicz - #### Improve LaTeX Support by Xun Sun, mentored by J.M. Maurer - #### AbiWord Multiple Page View by James Denton, mentored by Martin Edmund Sevior - #### Rethinking Styles by Ryan Pavlik, mentored by Hubert Figuiere - #### Proposal for developing OOXML Export plugin for AbiWord by Firat Kiyak, mentored by Kamran Khan ## Adium **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) Adium is an messaging application for Mac OS X that can connect to AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, and more. The Adium project is a loosely organized group of volunteers that handles almost everything related to developing, distributing, and supporting the application. ### Projects - #### Unit Tests and Documentation for Adium by Branton John Homer, mentored by Peter Hosey - #### Data-detectors for Adium by Geoffrey Foster, mentored by David Smith ## ArgoUML **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** Eclipse Public License ArgoUML is a popular open source UML modeling tool that includes support for all standard UML 1.4 diagrams. It runs on any Java platform and is available in ten languages. Code generation and reverse engineering is provided for various programming languages. A plugin architecture allows this as well as other features of the product to be extended by developers outside of the core development team. Work is in progress in many areas of the project including upgrade to UML2.x and migration to the Eclipse RCP Framework. ### Projects - #### UI Code generation for ArgoUML property panels by Christian Lopez Espinola, mentored by Robert James Tarling - #### Usability issues of diagrams by Bogdan SZANTO, mentored by Luís Sérgio Valente de Oliveira - #### C# Gene /Generating UML diagrams from C# source files by Thilina Hasantha, mentored by Jan Magne Andersen - #### ArgoEclipse by Brian Hudson, mentored by Pistol Constandache Bogdan Ciprian - #### Improving the Critics Subsystem by Marcos Aurelio Almeida da Silva, mentored by Michiel van der Wulp ## The Apache Software Foundation **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** Apache License, 2.0 The Apache Software Foundation provides support for the Apache community of open-source software projects. The Apache projects are characterized by a collaborative, consensus based development process, an open and pragmatic software license, and a desire to create high quality software that leads the way in its field. We consider ourselves not simply a group of projects sharing a server, but rather a community of developers and users. ### Projects - #### Tuscany SCA Support in the Geronimo Admin Console by Thilina Mahesh Buddhika, mentored by Ant Elder - #### Allow Google Android applications to easily consume business services (version 2.0 - 6Apr2008 @17.50) by Oscar Castaneda, mentored by Adriano Crestani Campos - #### harmony-demo-1 by C. D. Tharindu Mathew, mentored by Alexei Y. Zakharov - #### CLI for extract information from Apache Qpid Java broker by Lahiru Mananada Gunathilake, mentored by Marnie McCormack - #### Ajax-based Monitoring Console for Apache ODE by Milinda Lakmal Pathirage, mentored by Tammo van Lessen - #### Integrate Google Services in SCA Compositions by Douglas Siqueira Leite, mentored by Luciano Resende - #### derby-testandfix - Convert Derby tests to JUnit and fix Derby bugs by Erlend Birkenes, mentored by Myrna van Lunteren - #### Implementing Conditional Type Assignment for Apache Xerces2-J by Hiranya Jayathilaka, mentored by Khaled Noaman - #### Convert Apache Derby tests to JUnit and fix Derby bugs by Umayanga Suran Jayathilaka, mentored by Katherine Marsden - #### CORBA support for Apache Tuscany by Wojciech Janiszewski, mentored by Zhaohui Feng - #### Codename Mahout.GA for mahout-machine-learning by Abdel Hakim Deneche, mentored by Grant Ingersoll - #### Integrate Google services in SCA compositions（Apache Tuscany） by Haibo Zhao, mentored by Luciano Resende - #### Basic Security Profile (BSP) 1.0 Validation for Apache Rampart by Heshan Suriyaarachchi, mentored by Nandana Sampath Mihindukulasooriya - #### Policytool: command line tool for Harmony by András Belicza, mentored by Sian January - #### Make the Scala Language usable in Sling. by Janandith Uditha Jayawardena, mentored by Bertrand Delacretaz - #### Cocoon block migration and development of new examples by Lukas Fridolin Lang, mentored by Reinhard Poetz - #### Axis2/C CGI application by Nikola Tankovic, mentored by Nandika Jayawardana - #### derby-testandfix/Convert Derby tests to JUnit and fix Derby bugs by Junjie Peng, mentored by Myrna van Lunteren - #### XPath implementation for Axis2/C by Varuna Parinda Jayasiri, mentored by Pallewela Mohottige Dumindu Perera - #### To implement Complementary Naïve Bayes algorithm using Map Reduce for Multicore Systems by Robin Anil, mentored by Ian Holsman - #### Open ID support for Roller blog server by Tatyana Tokareva, mentored by Dave Johnson - #### SOLR: Create a javascript client library for Apache Solr by Matthias Epheser, mentored by Ryan McKinley - #### Cayenne - Cayenne Modeler Improvements by Andrey Razumovsky, mentored by Kevin Joseph Menard, Jr. ## atheme.org **Homepage:**
**Preferred License:** New BSD license atheme.org is the parent project of Audacious, Conspire, atheme-services, libmowgli, libmcs, naspro and many other open source technologies. ### Projects - #### Bluetooth headphones support by Stanciu Paula Cecilia, mentored by Tony Vroon - #### Documentation of and extensions to dsyslog by Jeffrey William Katz, mentored by William Pitcock - #### A stream browser plugin for Audacious by Calin Crisan, mentored by Tony Vroon - #### Shoutcast/Icecast server plugin by Andrei Shadura, mentored by Matti Hamalainen - #### XML-based skin engine for Audacious by Tomasz Mon, mentored by William Pitcock - #### Rewrite conspire configuration system and theming engine by Noah Fontes, mentored by William Pitcock - #### Data-based file format for FIR/IIR filters by Donato Di Stasi, mentored by Stefano DAngelo ## Audacity **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) We are developers of the Audacity® sound editor which runs on Linux, Windows, and Mac. Audacity is widely used, with around 15 million downloads in the past year from Sourceforge (https://sourceforge.net/projects/audacity). Audacity won Best Project for Multimedia in the Sourceforge 2007 Community Choice Awards (https://sourceforge.net/community/index.php/landing-pages/cca07/). Audacity has been featured widely in the media, including CNN.com (http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/tech/2008/01/12/data.doctor.records.cnn), and a reference in a New York Times article. Audacity is a flagship application of the wxWidgets (http://wxwidgets.org/) cross-platform toolkit and it is widely admired as one of the only multimedia applications that runs beautifully on all three major platforms. Care has been taken to make Audacity work with screen readers for visually impaired users. Audacity has been translated into almost 30 languages, and nearly half of Audacity users use it in a language other than English. Perhaps most importantly, Audacity has a large and vibrant developer community. There are no full-time developers, but about a dozen team members who have been with the project for several years act as the leaders of the community, setting the direction and coordinating releases, but many contributions come from the dozens of other developers who have contributed small features, bug fixes, or other patches, and hundreds of other developers who participate on the mailing lists and help test and track down bugs. In addition, dozens of volunteers help with documentation, technical support, language translation, community support, and more. ### Projects - #### Importing (exporting?) files into Audacity via FFMpeg by Ruslan Ijbulatov, mentored by Richard Anthony Ash - #### New GUI Classes: wxDragGridSizer and wxDragFlexGridSizer by Johannes Kulick, mentored by James Crook - #### On Demand/Level of Detail File Loading by Michael Chinen, mentored by Martyn Joseph Shaw - #### Sticky Labels \& Multiple Selection of Labels by Mark Deutsch, mentored by Leland Lucius ## BBC Research **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** Mozilla Public License 1.1 (MPL) The BBC exists to enrich people's lives with great programmes and service that inform, educate and entertain. Its vision is to be the most creative, trusted organisation in the world. We're looking for people not only interested in the cutting edge of the distribution of television programmes over the internet to our audience, but also component technologies encouraging reuse, and collaborative system, specifically interested in using our Kamaelia (mainly python) \& Dirac (mainly C++) open source projects. Kamaelia is a research tool for producing anything from PVRs, collaborative whiteboards, games through to streaming servers making parallelism simple through a component approach. Dirac is a next generation wavelet based video codec. The BBC also has a number of other open source projects - which can be found at http://www.bbc.co.uk/opensource/. \Kamaelia's aim is to make it easier and more fun to make software, quickly and maintainably in a way that makes concurrency (eg multicore) easy and fun to work with. The more code that is multicore friendly, the easier we make it for everyone. We are as interested in experienced students as we are in experienced. ### Projects - #### A multi-user networked music sequencer by Joseph Turner, mentored by Sylvain Hellegouarch - #### Multi-Window Paint and 2D Animation Tool by David King, mentored by Matt Hammond - #### Change the Kamaelia topology visualiser to work in full 3D by Chong Liu, mentored by Michael Philip Sparks - #### KamConnect by Finley Baker, mentored by Michael Philip Sparks ## Blender Foundation **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) The Blender Foundation is an independent organization (a Dutch "stichting"), acting as a non-profit public benefit corporation, with the following goals: \* To establish services for active users and developers of Blender. \* To maintain and improve the current Blender product via a public accessible source code system under the GNU GPL license. \* To establish funding or revenue mechanisms that serve the foundation's goals and cover the foundation's expenses. \* To give the worldwide Internet community access to 3D technology in general, with Blender as a core. ### Projects - #### Lightcuts for Blender by Davide Vercelli, mentored by Kent Mein - #### Editable topology for multi-resolution meshes by Nicholas Bishop, mentored by Brecht Van Lommel - #### Freestyle integration by Maxime Curioni, mentored by Jean-Luc Peurière - #### ShrinkWrap Modifier by André Susano Pinto, mentored by Daniel Genrich - #### Improving Python Editing In Blender by Ian Philip Thompson, mentored by Campbell Barton ## BlueZ **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) BlueZ provides support for the core Bluetooth layers and protocols. It is flexible, efficient and uses a modular implementation. It has many interesting features such as: \* Complete modular implementation \* Symmetric multi processing safe \* Multithreaded data processing \* Support for multiple Bluetooth devices \* Real hardware abstraction \* Standard socket interface to all layers \* Device and service level security support Currently BlueZ consists of many separate modules: \* Bluetooth kernel subsystem core \* L2CAP and SCO audio kernel layers \* RFCOMM, BNEP, CMTP and HIDP kernel implementations \* HCI UART, USB, PCMCIA and virtual device drivers \* General Bluetooth and SDP libraries and daemons \* Configuration and testing utilities \* Protocol decoding and analysis tools \* Audio Service witch gives support to profiles: HSP, HFP, AVDTP, A2DP, AVRCP \* Input Service profiles: HID \* Network Service profiles: PAN \* Serial Service profiles: RFCOMM ### Projects - #### Integration of the Bluetooth Audio service with PulseAudio by João Paulo Rechi Vita, mentored by Luiz Augusto von Dentz - #### PBAP - The Phonebook Client (PCE) by Larry de Oliveira Lira Junior, mentored by Claudio Takahasi - #### High level/convenient python component on top of dbus-python by Li Dongyang, mentored by Vinicius Costa Gomes - #### Extend obex-data-server with BIP support by Tadas Dailyda, mentored by Claudio Takahasi ## Boost C++ **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** Boost Software License 1.0 Boost provides free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries. We emphasize libraries that work well with the C++ Standard Library. Boost libraries are intended to be widely useful and usable across a broad spectrum of applications. The Boost license encourages both commercial and non-commercial use. We aim to establish "existing practice" and provide reference implementations so that Boost libraries are suitable for eventual standardization. Ten Boost libraries are already included in the C++ Standards Committee's Library Technical Report (TR1) as a step toward becoming part of a future C++ Standard. More Boost libraries are proposed for the upcoming TR2. ### Projects - #### DIGITAL SEARCHING: PROPOSAL TO IMPLEMENT TRIE, SUFFIX TREE, TERNARY SEARCH TREE,DIRECTED ACYCLIC WORD GRAPHS AND PATRICIA TRIES by Chintan Rao H, mentored by Rene Rivera - #### YAML archives for Boost.serialization by Esteban Fernandez Gonzalez, mentored by Jose Lorenzo de Guzman - #### Spatial Indexing (in the context of the Geometry Library for Boost) by Federico Javier Fernandez, mentored by Hartmut Kaiser - #### Optimizing the Boost Math and Graph Library for Multi-core and SIMD processors by Gautam Sewani, mentored by John Maddock - #### Polynomial Library by Pawel Kieliszczyk, mentored by Fernando Luis Cacciola Carballal ## BRL-CAD **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL) BRL-CAD is represented and developed by a consortium of individuals in the open source community from industry, academia, government, and private industry from all over the world. Our organizational interests in BRL-CAD vary across the project's primary focus areas including computer-aided design (CAD), computer-aided manufacturing (CAM), solid modeling, and computer graphics. We have about a half-dozen core developers that are active on a daily basis with the project and several dozen community contributors, modelers, artists, and engineers. Our developers predominantly interact over IRC and through our various mailing lists. The BRL-CAD package is a powerful cross-platform open source solid modeling system that includes interactive solid geometry editing, ray-tracing support for rendering and geometric analysis, image and signal-processing tools, system performance analysis tools, a robust high-performance geometry engine, and much more. Currently standing at more than a million lines of code, 400 utilities, and hundreds of man-hours investment, BRL-CAD has more than 20 years of development history (since 1979) and is in production use by more than 2000 organizations around the world (this was our last statistic before we went open source and became untraceable). As useless bragging rights and fun statistics, the Ohloh source code statistics site recognized BRL-CAD as having "the world's oldest source code repository". Ohloh is a site that tracks the commit activity for more than 12,000 open source repositories performing in-depth historical analyses and commit tracking. When they reviewed the project histories for all projects in their database, BRL-CAD came in as the oldest project that has had continuous uninterrupted activity even edging out Emacs and GCC: http://www.ohloh.net/blog/worlds_oldest_source_code_repositories Released as open source software just a little over three years ago, BRL-CAD has received considerable attention from the CAD and solid modeling communities. We've had more than 230K downloads within last 12 months alone and our download rate is increasing. As far as we're aware, BRL-CAD is actually the only open source solid modeling system available with production-quality capabilities under an OSI-approved license. The BRL-CAD user-base is primarily composed of individuals in the CAD industry where the modeling requirements are fundamentally different to those of content modelers (e.g., Blender) that are used for animation, gaming, and film purposes. Where content modelers include commercial products like Maya, Softimage, and 3D Studio; BRL-CAD's primary competitors are in an entirely separate industry where commercial products like Unigraphics, Solidworks, Pro/Engineer, CATIA, and AutoCAD dominate. See http://ftp.brlcad.org/Industry_Diagram.png for a visual overview of where BRL-CAD fits within the various CAD industries. Our goal is to become the best solid modeling system available by encouraging collaboration throughout the CAD communities, improving recognition that we're a production-quality F/OSS project, providing effective/better user-friendly tools, and by continuing to work hard at implementing the features needed by our users. ### Projects - #### Implementing support for new primitives (revolve and sweep) by Timothy Van Ruitenbeek, mentored by Daniel Rossberg - #### Global Illumination using MLT by André Castelo Branco Gomes, mentored by Erik Greenwald - #### libpg: Parametrics/ Constraint Library by Dawn Thomas, mentored by John R. Anderson - #### OpenGL GUI Framework by Manuel Antonio Fernandez Montecelo, mentored by Robert Glenn Parker ## BZFlag **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL) BZFlag is a free online multiplayer cross-platform open source 3D tank battle game that is maintained by an active community of individuals distributed all around the world.. It is one of the most successful and sustained cross-platform open source games ever with an active developer, administrative, and player community. There have been more than a million downloads in the last five years alone and our user base presently consists of more than 200 players online at any time of day or night. The project has actually become more popular over the years as we continue to improve and enhance the game. BZFlag has been under active development since 1992. Our organization is presently comprised of a rather disparate group of individuals that work on BZFlag because they love the game and the community that surrounds it. There are presently 71 individuals entrusted with access to BZFlag core resources including 46 individuals that have committed source code modifications over the project's life span. Our developer base presently consists of 9 documented core developers that have made extensive contributions to the game and remained active over many years, along with about a dozen apprentice-level developers that are coming up in the ranks, and about two dozen peripheral/casual developers, extension developers, and web integration programmers. Additionally, there are several dozen trusted staffers, server operators, and graphic artists that assist in the day-to-day operations needed by the game for keeping servers up and running, providing server list services, designing artwork, providing network statistics, image hosting, web hosting, and much more. All of our project developers almost exclusively collaborate on the #bzflag Freenode IRC channel, which is the central hub for most of our development discussions, decision planning meetings, game operations, and network infrastructure administration. We operate via a benevolent dictatorship combined with a meritocracy that strives for consensus between the core developers and other involved community members. Extensive discussions are held for any changes to BZFlag that affect the game's traditional "spirit", mood of gameplay, tone of the user environment, and types of interactions possible in the game. These discussions also include considerations whenever there are new features being added such as new flags, enhanced graphics, or changes to the gameplay. We also serve as a support arm to our user community assisting them with anything from how to get started playing to providing assistance with setting up their own server or even helping them write their own new extensions to the game. From IRC, we administer network operations for the approximate 18638 registered player base and for the tens of thousands of unregistered players that engage in more than 10000 daily player sessions across more than 250 public servers. As we are a globally distributed network-oriented game, we also maintain the public server listings, provide player tracking, network statistics, global authentication, user and group management, abuse and ban controls, player conflict resolution, competitive league management, and user community support. ### Projects - #### Enhanced Server Listing for BZFlag by David Sanders, mentored by Joseph Van Overberghe - #### BZAuthd - the global authentication daemon by Istvan Szakats, mentored by David Wollner - #### Collision code modularization and transfer to server by Joshua Charles Bodine, mentored by Jeffrey Myers - #### Code Refactoring: Creating and Implementing a libBZW by Luke Rewega, mentored by Daniel Remenak - #### BZWGen revisited by Kornel Kisielewicz, mentored by Julio Jimenez Borreguero ## Cairo **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL) Cairo is a 2D graphics library with support for multiple output devices. Currently supported output targets include the X Window System, Win32, image buffers, PostScript, PDF, and SVG file output. Experimental backends include OpenGL (through glitz), Quartz, and XCB. ### Projects - #### Scan converting rasteriser by Joonas Pihlaja, mentored by Carl Worth ## Creative Commons **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) Creative Commons is a non-profit organization which provides free, flexible copyright licenses for creative works. Creative Commons' mission is two-fold: to provide tools for legally expressing a "some rights reserved" approach to copyright and to reduce the transaction cost of re-using works covered by copyright. Both portions of the mission are strongly supported by our technology, including machine-readable representations of the licenses. ### Projects - #### CC Logger by Ankit Guglani, mentored by Asheesh Laroia - #### RDFa Support for Semantic MediaWiki by David McCabe, mentored by Nathan Kinkade - #### License-oriented metadata validator and viewer by Hugo Dworak, mentored by Asheesh Laroia - #### Creative Commons -\> Flickr Image Re-Use for OpenOffice.org by Husleag Mihai, mentored by Nathan R. Yergler ## Comprehensive C Archive Network (CCAN) **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) A random band of hackers, armed with a mailing list, an IRC channel and a code repository, trying to make C programming more fun. To that end, we are trying to create a C repository of code similar to Perl's CPAN. ### Projects - #### Accepting and Searching Code by Dinesh G, mentored by RustyRussell ## ChristmasFuture **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** Apache License, 2.0 Christmas Future is an NGO using technology to help alleviate extreme poverty through integrated community development. Through our open source donation engine called DonorTrust, we connect donors with on-the-ground implementing partners to add transparency and feedback to the development process. DonorTrust helps people to see that their choices impact the world. Our technology also allows people to give what amounts to an online gift card, which recipients can use to support development projects. Because DonorTrust is open-source, the development of this engine will help many NGOs to more effectively raise money for their good causes. ### Projects - #### Full-Text search engine by Pedro Miguel Renato Andrade Pimentel, mentored by James Lee - #### RESTful API for DonorTrust by William Joseph Gaudet, mentored by James Lee - #### Self-service backend for DonorTrust by Adrian Schoenig, mentored by James Lee - #### Fundraising Features by Lucas Andrade Gomes Silveira, mentored by James Lee ## CLAM (at Universitat Pompeu Fabra) **Homepage:**
**Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) CLAM (C++ Library for Audio and Music) is a project that aims at developing a full-featured application framework for Audio and Music Applications. It offers a conceptual metamodel as well as many different tools for that particular domain. One of its most relevant features is the availability of a visual building dataflow application that allows to develop rapid prototypes without writing code. The project started 7 years ago and, among other highlights, it won the ACM award to the Best Open Source Multimedia Software in 2006. The framework just published its release 1.2. CLAM is coordinated and hosted at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain). ### Projects - #### AnnMerger-to stand on the shoulders of the masses by Wang Jun, mentored by David García Garzón - #### MIDI Implementation for Network Editor by Francisco Tufro, mentored by Hernan Ordiales - #### Real-time Synthesizer Using SMS Models for a Woodwind Instrument by Yushen Han, mentored by Pau Arumí Albó - #### Network scalability and Blender Integration by Natanael Olaiz, mentored by Pau Arumí Albó - #### Educational Vowel Synthesiser by Paweł Bartkiewicz, mentored by David García Garzón ## Codehaus **Homepage:**
**Preferred License:** Apache License, 2.0 The Codehaus is an open-source project repository with a strong emphasis on Java, focussed on quality components that meet real world needs. We believe in open source as a pragmatic approach to software development, and all our projects are business-friendly in terms of licensing. Enjoy your stay at the haus! ### Projects - #### RMagick for JRuby by Sergio Rodríguez Arbeo, mentored by Thomas E Enebo - #### Castor Pull Mapping by Bernhard Woditschka, mentored by Joachim Grueneis - #### Performance Improvement for Groovy by Chanwit Kaewkasi, mentored by Guillaume Laforge - #### Include plugin for Grails by Daniel Latorre, mentored by Guillaume Laforge - #### JAXB 2 Support in Castor XML - XML schema generator by LE DUC Bao, mentored by Werner Guttmann - #### OQL query engine by UDAI GUPTA, mentored by Ralf Joachim - #### Scientific Groovy Module by Ross Angle, mentored by Tiago Rodrigues Antão ## Coppermine Photo Gallery **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) We develop Coppermine Photo Gallery, which is an advanced, user-friendly, picture gallery script with built-in support for other multi-media/data files. Coppermine uses PHP, a MySQL database, and either the GD library (version 1.x or 2.x) or ImageMagick to generate and keep records and file information of all thumbnails, intermediate, and full-sized images. Coppermine was developed by Grégory Demar until he retired in 2003, when the current dev team inherited the project and registered it with SourceForge. ### Projects - #### A New Coppermine API by David Wyde, mentored by Aditya Mooley - #### Scaling Coppermine by Ovidiu Dan, mentored by Dr. Tarique Sani - #### AJAX functionality for core of Coppermine by Nuwan Sameera Hettiarachchi, mentored by Abbas Ali - #### Flash based Photo manager by Sribabu Doddapaneni, mentored by Sander Weyens ## coresystems GmbH **Homepage:**
**Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) We're a young company into low-level open source software business. Founded 3 years ago with a rich background in Linux distributions, open source and embedded systems, and a lot of fun moving OSS ahead. We offer mentorship for coreboot (aka LinuxBIOS) projects. Coreboot is an Open Source firmware (BIOS) implementation that starts your computer in (almost) no time while leaving you the full control over your hardware. So if you have fun touching 'the real iron' with both hands, don't hesitate to apply now. If you are interested in LinuxBIOS and want to help, you don't need lowlevel or assembler know how to participate. Just suggest an idea or choose one from the list. ### Projects - #### All Virtual All The Time (AVATT) - virtualization-aware BIOS by Cristian Măgherușan, mentored by ronald g. minnich - #### SCSI booting in coreboot by Zhang Rui, mentored by Stefan Reinauer ## Crystal Space **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL) Crystal Space is an Open Source 3D Engine and Game Framework. It is very portable and runs on GNU/Linux, Windows, and MacOS/X. ### Projects - #### Improvements to Lighter2 in Crystal Space by Greg Hoffman, mentored by Marten Svanfeldt - #### Real-Time Rendering of Water Meshes by Pavel Krajcevski, mentored by Frank Richter - #### Realtime cloud simulation and rendering system by Julian Mautner, mentored by Scott Johnson - #### Cross thread communication and multi-threaded loading by Michael Gist, mentored by Jorrit Tyberghein ## Center for the Study of Complex Systems, Univ. of Michigan **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** Apache License, 2.0 The Center for the Study of Complex Systems (CSCS) is a broadly interdisciplinary unit within the College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA) of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. CSCS's mission is to encourage and facilitate research and education in the general area of nonlinear, dynamical and adaptive systems. Participating faculty represent nearly every college of the University. The Center is based on the recognition that many different kinds of systems which include self-regulation, feedback or adaptation in their dynamics, may have a common underlying structure despite their apparent differences. Moreover, these deep structural similarities can be exploited to transfer methods of analysis and understanding from one field to another. In addition to developing deeper understandings of specific systems, interdisciplinary approaches should help elucidate the general structure and behavior of complex systems, and move us toward a deeper appreciation of the general nature of such systems. ### Projects - #### Gridsweep Improvements and Analytic Tools. by Charles Francis, mentored by Rick Riolo - #### SPOC Creation and Extension by Andrea Jones-Rooy, mentored by Scott E Page - #### T-FACES: Tools for Analysis of Computational Experiments by James Somers, mentored by Rick Riolo - #### Developing Statistical Tools for Agent-Based Models by Jonathan Zelner, mentored by Scott E Page - #### TFACES by Michael J Bommarito II, mentored by Scott E Page - #### SPOC Creation and nanohub-for-IGERT Synergy by Daniel OMalley, mentored by Rick Riolo - #### Improving I-SPOC by Bautu Elena, mentored by Rick Riolo ## Debian **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run. Debian uses the Linux kernel (the core of an operating system), but most of the basic OS tools come from the GNU project; hence the name GNU/Linux. ### Projects - #### netconf: a network configuration management system by Jonathan Roes, mentored by Martin F. Krafft - #### cran2deb by charles blundell, mentored by Dirk Eddelbuettel - #### Jigdo-Ivory: JavaScript Jigdo Client by Dustin Rayner, mentored by Steve McIntyre - #### Usability improvements and GTK+ GUI for Aptitude by Obey Arthur Liu, mentored by Daniel Burrows - #### debexpo: generic web-based Debian package repository to suit the needs of many by Jonathan Lamb, mentored by Christoph Haas - #### Ultimate Debian Database by Christian von Essen, mentored by Lucas Nussbaum - #### debgraph: A Generic Infrastructure for the Development of Package Management Tools by Adam Jensen, mentored by Robert Lemmen - #### Debian NAS by Per Andersson, mentored by Riku Voipio - #### Lintian for fully automated setups by Jorda Polo Bardes, mentored by Marc Brockschmidt - #### Merging of configuration files during updates by Max Wiehle, mentored by Manoj Srivastava - #### PamNssDebianInstaller \[Configurable PAM and NSS modules from the Debian Installer\] by Juan Luis Belmonte Mendez, mentored by FABIO TRANCHITELLA ## Dirac Schrodinger **Homepage:**
**Preferred License:** MIT license Open Source community creating an implementation of the Dirac video codec. ### Projects - #### GPU acceleration for encoder and decoder (OpenGL) by Matthias Bolte, mentored by David Flynn - #### Java Decoder for Dirac by Bart Wiegmans, mentored by David Schleef ## Django **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** BSD License Django is a high-level Python Web framework originally developed at the Lawrence-Journal World. Django was designed to handle two challenges: the intensive deadlines of a newsroom and the stringent requirements of the experienced Web developers who wrote it. It lets you build high-performing, elegant Web applications quickly. ### Projects - #### Add Aggregate support by Nicolas Lara, mentored by Russell Keith-Magee - #### Implementation of more backends for the djangosearch API by Ben Firshman, mentored by Joseph Merrell Kocherhans - #### Rewrite the Django Comments Framework : Django-Newcomments by Thejaswi Puthraya, mentored by Jannis Leidel ## Dojo Foundation **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** Apache License, 2.0 The Dojo Foundation promotes the adoption of Dojo and provides a healthy environment for JavaScript engineering of every stripe. Dojo is an Open Source DHTML toolkit written in JavaScript. It allows you to easily build dynamic capabilities into web pages and any other environment that supports JavaScript sanely. You can use the components that Dojo provides to make your web sites more useable, responsive, and functional. From humble beginnings in 2004, in November 2007 we released v1.0 after some major refactoring, and this has led to much wider interest and uptake. We take being professional seriously around issues like internationalization, accessibility, cross-browser support, licensing, and IP. Dojo has many active users - 10,000 registered in the last year, considerable corporate uptake (Sun, IBM, AOL, among many others) and a number of people are paid to work on Dojo, including many of our core committers. ### Projects - #### Drag \& Drop Form Editor by Jeff Balogh, mentored by Peter Svensson - #### D-Rails, A project aimed at providing an alternative to Prototype/Scriptaculous in Ruby on Rails via a Rails plugin by Jonathan Moeller, mentored by Robert Paul Remeika, Jr. - #### Intuitive Animation Toolset by Craig Laparo, mentored by Peter Edgcomb Higgins - #### Dojo GFX Enhancement by Robertus Harmawan Johansyah, mentored by Eugene Lazutkin - #### Markup Previews functionality for Dojo by Andrey Popelo Anatolevich, mentored by David Snopek ## The DragonFly BSD Project **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** New BSD license DragonFly BSD, originally branched from FreeBSD on 2003, is working on a new approach to SMP and other kernel systems to enable an open source Single System Image operating system. Along the way, we've been picking up improvements from other BSDs and generally streamlining the underlying 30-year-old BSD code base, with a preference towards making systems less complex and easier to maintain. ### Projects - #### Port DragonFly to the AMD64 architecture by Йордан Гордеев (Jordan Gordeev), mentored by Matthew Dillon - #### Proportional Share userland Scheduling Algorithm by Mayur Narayan Bhosle, mentored by Jeffrey Hsu - #### DragonFlyBSD -- LiveCD with a DragonFly-specific X desktop, integrated into nrelease build by Louisa Luciani, mentored by Sascha Wildner - #### Enhance dma(8) by Max Lindner, mentored by Matthias Schmidt - #### RFC3542 support on DragonFly BSD by Dashu Huang, mentored by Hasso Tepper ## Drupal **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) Drupal is a web content management system and web application framework written in PHP. It is also a vibrant, growing, and fun community of programmers, activists and communicators. The core Drupal software is a framework to power community driven web site software, and includes features such as internationalization, tagging, and an extensive roles and permissions system. The highly extensible architecture supports well over a thousand sub-projects in the form of contributed modules and themes, so there's something here for everyone. ### Projects - #### Views plugins to output node lists as XML/RDF/JSON/XHTML by Allister Beharry, mentored by Gordon Heydon - #### Usability Testing Suite by Jimmy Berry, mentored by Bevan Rudge - #### Security scanner component for SimpleTest module by Dario Battista Ghilardi, mentored by Károly Négyesi - #### Search Score Improvement by Blake Lucchesi, mentored by Charlie Gordon - #### A new aggregator for Drupal by Novak Aron Andras, mentored by Alex Barth - #### Memetracker by Kyle Mathews, mentored by Bill Fitzgerald - #### Improving the apachesolr module by Thomas Seidl, mentored by Robert T. Douglass - #### Revamp Drupal's help system by Gurpartap Singh, mentored by Dmitri Ariel Gaskin - #### Views as Widgets by John Snow, mentored by Alex Urevick Ackelsberg - #### PluginManager / Making theme and module management more friendly by Joshua Rogers, mentored by Greg J. Knaddison - #### Nodequeue Companion Modules by Ezra Barnett Gildesgame, mentored by Kevin Bridges - #### Validation API Module for JS/PHP by Craig Jackson, mentored by Chris Yu - #### OpenID Attribute Exchange implementation by Anshu Prateek, mentored by James Walker - #### Icon module by Joakim Stai, mentored by Nathan Haug - #### Bookings API with an Implementation by Carson Yip Yen Lam, mentored by Matthew Vance - #### Integrating OAuth open protocol with ServicesAPI to make it more secure and risk free by sumit kataria, mentored by Rob Loach - #### Improving color.module for Drupal 7 by Tony Narlock, mentored by Konstantin Kaefer ## DSPACE FOUNDATION **Homepage:** [www.dspace.org](http://www.dspace.org) **Preferred License:** New BSD license DSpace is an open source software platform that allows any organization to manage, preserve and provide open access to their digital works. The platform has a vibrant WW community of developers and is used by over 300 academic and cultural organizations to manage and provide access to their own creative works. The platform enables the sharing and reuse of these materials with the hope of advancing research and knowledge for all. ### Projects - #### DSpace \& Fedora integration by Andrius Blazinskas, mentored by Richard Rodgers - #### Moving DSpace into the age of the Semantic Web by Peter Coetzee, mentored by Mark Robert Diggory - #### An Add-On to facilitate the existing DSpace Batch Import Procedure by Blooma Mohan John, mentored by Jayan C Kurian - #### New collection workflow system by De Schouwer Bram, mentored by Lieven Droogmans ## The Eclipse Foundation **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** Eclipse Public License Eclipse is an open source community with projects focused on building open development platforms with extensible frameworks, tools and runtimes to build, deploy and manage software across the lifecycle. A large and vibrant ecosystem of major technology vendors, innovative start-ups, universities, research institutions and individuals extend, complement and support the Eclipse platform. ### Projects - #### Type inference for APDT by William Candillon, mentored by Michael Spector - #### Concurrency-related refactorings for JDT by Benjamin Muskalla, mentored by Ahti Kitsik - #### WikiText: A Wiki Integrated Task Editor by Jingwen Ou, mentored by Steffen Pingel - #### Implement Split File Editor Functionality for the Eclipse IDE by Nikolay Botev Botev, mentored by Boris Bokowski - #### Transformation of BPMN/BPEL to SCA models for STP (SOA Tools Platform) by Juan Cadavid, mentored by Adrian Mos - #### JET Transforms/Wizards for creating project meta data by Michael Robb, mentored by Nick Boldt - #### Declarative Service Tooling by Rafael Oliveira Nobrega, mentored by Chris Aniszczyk - #### Web-CAT Grader Plug-in for Eclipse by Qi Yang, mentored by Greg Wilson - #### Improve Consumability of Equinox Transforms by Bartosz Michalik, mentored by Kimberly Horne - #### Framework for Visual Analytics of user tracking information within Applications based on the Eclipse Runtime (RCP and RAP). by Darko Varju, mentored by Markus Knauer - #### toString() generator by Mateusz Matela, mentored by Markus Alexander Kuppe - #### RAP Theme Editor by Mathias Schaeffner, mentored by Ralf Sternberg - #### about : BIRT JPA or JDO Connector by Victoriano Alfonso Phocco Diaz, mentored by Jason Weathersby - #### Refactorings for Xpand / Xtend / Check by Steven Reinisch, mentored by Peter Friese - #### New Eclipse Plugin for XQuery by Buddhika Laknath Semage, mentored by David Carver - #### The "Compare with" dialog by Aleksandra Wozniak, mentored by Tomasz Zarna - #### Hibachi project: ADA AST for Eclipse by Bartosz Lipiński, mentored by Adam Haselhuhn - #### JavaScript debugger for IE by Li Ha, mentored by Philippe Ombredanne - #### XML+CSS = IFigure by Andrey Vakunov, mentored by Andrey Platov ## The Electronic Frontier Foundation **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** New BSD license The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), founded in 1990, works in the public interest to protect fundamental civil liberties in the digital age. The Internet and other communication technologies can herald the most liberating era of human history --- or the most regulated and controlled. The EFF works to defend our basic rights to free speech, privacy and free and open communications, and advocates for sane policies on digital copyright, software patents and electronic voting. EFF is a membership supported organization with 27 full-time staff. We are working closely with The Tor Project (torproject.org), a free- software non-profit project to build an anonymity toolkit used by individuals, companies, governments, and law enforcement around the world. The Tor network has grown since its start in 2002 to several hundred thousand active users pushing over 1Gbps of traffic. There are four full-time Tor developers, plus several dozen other volunteers who help out on a daily basis. This proposal is a combined submission from EFF and Tor. ### Projects - #### Tor exit scanner improvements by Aleksei Gorny, mentored by Mike Perry - #### Provide Blossom functionality to Vidalia by Camilo Viecco, mentored by Matt Edman - #### Configuration of Hidden Services with User Authorization in Vidalia by Bork Domenik, mentored by Matt Edman - #### A networking application to automatically carry out tests for Tor by Sebastian Hahn, mentored by Nick Mathewson ## The Enlightenment Project **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** New BSD license The Enlightenment Project is an open source project dedicated to providing advanced graphical libraries, tools, and environments. Currently, the project is made up of three different components: Enlightenment DR16, Enlightenment DR17, and the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries. While we are best known for the Enlightenment Window Manager itself, there is a long history of providing advanced libraries and tools to support the window manager and other applications, such as Imlib, Imlib2, and FnLib, which extend far beyond the window manager itself in scope. Presently, in development towards the DR17 Desktop Shell, we have created an entirely new set of libraries and tools that provide more power and flexibility than any other group of graphical libraries available: the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries. These libraries offer such functionality as an X11 canvas library (Evas), X11 abstraction layer (Ecore), and an canvas based interface layout library (Edje) that allows separation of interface and application logic (thus making every application that uses it "skinable"). These libraries are extremely fast and lightweight. So much so they have been adopted by many other organizations. Most notably, organizations such as Openmoko, Maemo, Terrasoft, the Canola project, and more. ### Projects - #### Improvement of Enlightenment 0.17 file manager by Fedor Gusev, mentored by Nicholas Hughart - #### A Quartz Backend for Evas by Timothy Horton, mentored by Nathan Ingersoll - #### Evince-like program by Sevcsik Andras, mentored by Vincent Torri - #### Enlightenment win32 port by Dzmitry Mazouka, mentored by Vincent Torri - #### Project: More Introduction-Level Code/Examples by Chris Lorenz, mentored by Sthithaprajna Garapaty - #### Presentation tools by Atton jonathan, mentored by Cedric BAIL ## ES operating system **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** Apache License, 2.0 We are creating a new pure component operating system, named ES, in which programmers can easily and seamlessly control software components running on the operating system using ECMAScript. This project was started by two members at Nintendo largely affected by Rob Pike's "Systems Software Research is Irrelevant" talk in 2000. And now this project is hosted in Google Code under the copyright of both Google and Nintendo in hope we can reach more people worldwide. ### Projects - #### A TCP/IP stack implementation based on design patterns by João Diogo Taveira Araújo, mentored by Shiki Okasaka - #### A component object binding runtime implementation for ECMAScript by Kenichi Ishibashi, mentored by Shiki Okasaka ## Etherboot Project **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) Etherboot Project creates Open Source software that allows computers to be booted over a network. This is useful in a variety of applications such as schools, businessess, computing clusters, kiosks, and many other situations which benefit from centralized administration and maintainance of OS images. ### Projects - #### Driver Development Proposal by Michael Decker, mentored by Martin Connor - #### GDB remote debugging by Stefan Hajnoczi, mentored by Michael Brown - #### Implementing USB support by Balaji Rao R, mentored by Michael Brown - #### COMBOOT support for gPXE by Daniel Verkamp, mentored by Michael Brown ## The Fedora Project \& JBoss.org **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) The Fedora Project develops and maintains the Fedora GNU/Linux distribution, one of the most successful free Linux distributions. The Fedora Project is managed by Red Hat and driven by a large community of users and developers. Its sister project, JBoss.org, is another project of Red Hat responsible for several leading open source Java projects, including JBossAS, Mobicents, JBossCache and JBossESB. ### Projects - #### Extending Bootchart to support SystemTap by Komaragiri satya, mentored by Teo Han Hui, Eugene - #### Extending Fedora Unified Network Controller (Func). by Krzysztof Adamski, mentored by Michael DeHaan - #### Func / Network Automation by Denis Kurov, mentored by Adrian Likins - #### Media asset types for Guvnor in JBoss Rules by Anton Arhipov, mentored by Mark Proctor - #### Transifex :: Usability and Efficiency Enhancements by Diego Búrigo Zacarão, mentored by Asgeir Frimannsson - #### Transifex's submissions revisited by Christos Trochalakis, mentored by Dimitris Glezos - #### PackageKit Offline Use by Shishir Kumar Goel, mentored by Richard Hughes - #### JBoss Cache Project 1 - Hibernate Search \& Hibernate ORM by Navin Surtani, mentored by Emmanuel Bernard - #### IntelligentMirror Proposal by Kulbir Saini, mentored by Seth Vidal - #### PiTiVI Non linear oss editor/ Screencast helper by Sarath Lakshman, mentored by John Palmieri ## FFmpeg **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL) FFmpeg is the leading open source multimedia processing library. Nearly any open source program you use that can play a sequence of video images accompanied by sound is probably using FFmpeg to do so. It can decode the most prominent multimedia formats ever created, whether open or proprietary, and can encode to the most important formats as well. As a novelty, FFmpeg can also decode a vast array of impossibly obscure multimedia formats and remains essential for legacy multimedia files (no codec is too old or obscure for this project). Anecdotally, FFmpeg just might be the leading multimedia processing library in existence, as many proprietary applications use it as well (as permitted by the LGPL license). There are many stealth uses as well. YouTube does not advertise how their backend conversion software operates. However, independent, empirical research has demonstrated that YouTube uses FFmpeg to convert videos. ### Projects - #### AAC-LC Encoder by Kostyantin Sergiyovich Shishkov, mentored by Andreas Öman - #### Windows Media Audio Professional Decoder by Sascha Sommer, mentored by Benjamin Larsson - #### Generic frame-level multithreading support by Alexander James Lloyd Strange, mentored by kristian Jerpetjoen - #### MLP/TrueHD encoder by Ramiro Ribeiro Polla, mentored by Justin Ben Ruggles - #### Apple Lossless Encoder for FFmpeg by Jaikrishnan Menon, mentored by Justin Ben Ruggles - #### Nellymoser Encoder by Bartlomiej Wolowiec, mentored by Benjamin Larsson - #### The implement of Material Exchange Format (MXF) Muxer by zhentan Feng, mentored by Baptiste Coudurier ## The FreeBSD Project **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** New BSD license The FreeBSD Project is a large, mature, and yet relatively tightly nit organization. The FreeBSD Project began 15 years ago in 1993, but is based on the work at Berkeley CSRG with open source revision history going back 30 years to 1978. There are currently over 300 developers with write access to the main revision control system, and hundreds more with access to our Perforce servers for experimental and third party development (this is also where our summer of code students have worked in previous years). We have an active mentoring program to bring all new developers into our community, not just those that we introduce to FreeBSD through the GSoC. There are hundreds of mailing lists, blogs, irc channels, and user groups all detailed on our main website. FreeBSD offers a complete operating system in which students can work, not just a kernel or specific userland stack. This allows for interesting work that spans the userland/kernel boundary, and allows students to build up and package complete modified FreeBSD operating system CDs/DVDs to distribute as ISOs for testing, for example. Relevance to Google : Google has many tens of thousands of FreeBSD-based devices helping to run its production networks (Juniper, Force10, NetApp, etc..), MacOS X laptops, and the occasional FreeBSD network monitoring or test server. Research in FreeBSD security, networking, and other areas has also regularly been adopted recently and throughout its 30 year history to other open source systems. The most recent example from this month is perhaps the JEMalloc allocator which was introduced in FreeBSD 2 years ago and has recently been imported into the Firefox browser, also widely used at Google. This is an exciting time for FreeBSD as Cisco, Juniper, NetApp, Force10, and many other embedded networking device companies are moving towards FreeBSD (Cisco) or upgrading to more modern FreeBSD releases (6.0/7.0 for all the rest). We are also seeing these companies hire open source liaisons and making a concerted effort to contribute more code back. ### Projects - #### VM Algorithm Improvement by Mayur Shardul, mentored by Jeffrey Roberson - #### NFSv4 ACLs by Edward Tomasz Napierala, mentored by Robert Nicholas Maxwell Watson - #### Ports license auditing infrastructure by Alejandro Pulver, mentored by Brooks Davis - #### Porting FreeBSD to Efika SoC (PPC bring up) by Przemek Witaszczyk, mentored by Rafal Jaworowski - #### Multibyte collation support by Konrad Jankowski, mentored by Diomidis Spinellis - #### Porting BSD-licensed Text-Processing Tools from OpenBSD by Gábor Kövesdán, mentored by Max Khon - #### Enhancing FreeBSD's Libarchive by Anselm Strauss, mentored by Timothy Kientzle - #### Implementation of MPLS in FreeBSD by Ryan James French, mentored by Andre Oppermann - #### TCP anomaly detector by Rui Alexandre Cunha Paulo, mentored by Andre Oppermann - #### Embedded FreeBSD project by James Andrew Harrison, mentored by Warner Losh - #### Adding .db support to pkg_tools --\> pkg_improved by Anders Nore, mentored by Florent Thoumie - #### Reference implementation of the SNTP client by Johannes Maximilian Kuehn, mentored by Harlan Stenn - #### Dynamic memory allocation for dirhash in UFS2 by Sean Nicholas Barkas, mentored by David Malone - #### FreeBSD auditing system testing by Vincenzo Iozzo, mentored by Attilio Rao - #### TCP/IP regression test suite by Victor Hugo Bilouro, mentored by George Neville-Neil - #### Allowing for Parallel builds in the FreeBSD Ports Collection by David Forsythe, mentored by Mark Linimon - #### Audit Firewall Events from Kernel by Diego Giagio, mentored by Christian S.J. Peron - #### Improving layer2 filtering in FreeBSD by Gleb Kurtsov, mentored by Andrew Thompson - #### DTrace Toolkit on FreeBSD by LiQun Li, mentored by John Birrell ## The Free Software Initiative of Japan **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) The Free Software Initiative of Japan (FSIJ) is a Non Profit Organization for Free Software Movement in Japan. FSIJ hosted CodeFest, Free Software Symposium, 5th International GPLv3 Conference, and RMS talks. Since 2006, FSIJ joines Google SoC. ### Projects - #### KUROBOX/Pro development environment and its applications by OotaYoshiaki, mentored by Yutaka Niibe ## Gallery **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) The Gallery Project produces Gallery, the next generation of open source photo sharing web applications. Gallery gives you an intuitive way to blend photo management seamlessly into your own website whether you're running a small personal site or a large community site. Hundreds of thousands of people and organizations are using Gallery to create personalized photo albums on their websites. ### Projects - #### Implementing a Web Based Translation Interface for Gallery2 by John Britton, mentored by Tim Almdal - #### Facebook / Flickr Style Image Region Based Tagging by Paul Hinze, mentored by Beckett Madden-Woods ## GCC **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) The GNU Compiler Collection includes the compilers used for all free operating systems for C, C++, Java, Fortran, and Ada. ### Projects - #### GCC Improvements on Windows by Aaron William LaFramboise, mentored by Steven Bosscher - #### Improving Dead Store Elimination by Jakub Staszak, mentored by Daniel Berlin - #### Extend Fortran 2003 support for gfortran by Daniel Kraft, mentored by François-Xavier Coudert - #### C++0x lambda functions for GCC by John Freeman, mentored by Douglas Gregor - #### Improved GIMPLE to GRAPHITE transformation by Tobias Grosser, mentored by Sebastian Pop - #### Procedure Pointers for gfortran by Janus Weil, mentored by Tobias Burnus ## The gEDA Project **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) The gEDA Project is a confederation of roughly 25 developers who work on CAD tools (programs) used for electronic design. The tools are designed to work on Linux and other unices. Some of the tools share a link library, and some are stand-alone. In general, users invoke the programs individually from the unix command line (or a desktop icon). However, we are currently developing a "project manager" which will tie many of the tools into a common entry point. Amongst the tools in the project are: gschem -- a program used to draw schematic diagrams of circuits. pcb -- a program used to design PCBs (printed circuit boards). gerbv -- a program used to view and validate PCBs. Gnucap -- a program used to analyze and simulate analog circuits (equivalent to SPICE). Icarus Verilog -- a program used in design and analysis of logic circuits. gwave -- a program used to view the output of Gnucap, ngspice, and other circuit simulators. In all, the gEDA Project encompasses around 18 programs which may be used in electronic design. A full list of our tools may be found here: http://geda.seul.org/tools/index.html Our CAD tools are used by students, educators, hobbiests, small consultants, and even in engineering groups in larger companies. ### Projects - #### VHDL code generator for Icarus Verilog by Nicholas Gasson, mentored by Cary R. - #### Topological Autorouter by Anthony Blake, mentored by DJ Delorie - #### Project Manager by Newell Jensen, mentored by Peter Colton James Clifton ## Geeklog **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) Geeklog is an open source CMS/weblog application, written in PHP and using MySQL or MS SQL as the database. The current core development group consists of five people, with a further 10-20 people contributing source code, plugins, and other add-ons on a regular basis. The community on www.geeklog.net hovers at around 150 active users, i.e. those that log into the site and participate in discussions. We also have some active international communities in Japan, Germany, Poland, and France. The Japanese community even published a book about Geeklog. While Geeklog may be one of the lesser known CMS, it does power a few high-profile sites, e.g. Groklaw. We also know that it is used quite a bit in company intranets and as a web application framework. ### Projects - #### Improvements to the Geeklog Comment System by Jared Wenerd, mentored by Michael Jervis - #### Plugin Installation and Migration Assistant by Matt West, mentored by Dirk Haun - #### Improvements to the Search Page by Sami Mazen Barakat, mentored by Randy Kolenko - #### Mailman Plugin For Geeklog by Aman Parnami, mentored by Blaine Lang - #### Social Networking for Geeklog by William P Bushey, mentored by Michael Tutty ## GenMAPP **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** Apache License, 2.0 We are an academically based organization that develops and supports GenMAPP (Gene Map Annotator and Pathway Profiler), a visualization and analysis tool for biological data. GenMAPP illustrates the relationships between various genes and proteins to help researchers understand their data in terms of connected, biological pathways. Over 18,000 people from \>70 countries have registered to download the GenMAPP program. There are over 360 publications that reference GenMAPP or use GenMAPP to display data in the context of biological pathways. GenMAPP is 100% open source. All new development is in Java, MySQL, Derby, XML, and Web technologies such as MediaWiki in collaboration with the UCSF library, BiGCaT Bioinformatics, and the Cytoscape Consortium. Our development team is composed of individuals who are both biologists and programmers, providing a unique perspective on building and using open source tools. ### Projects - #### Implement long-standing cytoscape wishlist features in cytoscape core by Daniel Abel, mentored by Michael Smoot - #### Normalizing Visualization with Hierarchical Community Structure (IDEA 17, 18, 19 Combined) by Gang Su, mentored by Kristina Hanspers - #### Random Network Plugin by Patrick J. McSweeney, mentored by Maital Ashkenazi - #### GenMapp - IDEA 21: Automatic (Smart) Node and Edge Label Layout by Victoria Mui, mentored by Greg Wilson - #### Application for IDEA 3: Advanced network merge for Cytoscape by Jianjiong Gao, mentored by Keiichiro Ono - #### Integration of Cheminformatics Tools in Cytoscape by Dazhi Jiao, mentored by John "Scooter" Morris - #### Advanced network merge for Cytoscape by Bulent Arman Aksoy, mentored by Thomas Kelder - #### Project Idea #20: Implementing Boolean Logic into the Display of Visual attributes by Stephen Andrew Federowicz, mentored by Alexander Pico ## Gentoo **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) Gentoo is a free operating system based on either Linux or FreeBSD that can be automatically optimized and customized for just about any application or need. Extreme configurability, performance and a top-notch user and developer community are all hallmarks of the Gentoo experience. ### Projects - #### Using Gentoo, Seed Linux and Catalyst, provide an easy access to a Beowulf clustering/HPC environment to everyday users. by Eric Thibodeau, mentored by Donnie Berkholz - #### "Automate It All" by Nirbheek Chauhan, mentored by Stephen Anthony Klimaszewski - #### Implement OpenPAM compatible modules for Linux. by Seraphim Mellos, mentored by Luca Ugo Maria Barbato - #### Setting Beacon Afloat by Nandeep Mali, mentored by Anant Narayanan - #### revdep-rebuild reimplementation by Carl Lucian Poston, mentored by Marius Mauch ## GIMP - GNU Image Manipulation Program **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. At over ten years old, its history merges itself with the development of a Free Desktop Environment, having first provided the basis for projects such as gtk+, gutemprint and other graphic programs. It is a free program distributed under the GPLv2 suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It is usually pre-installed in all major Desktop GNU/Linux distributions and available in other Platforms such as Microsoft's Windows. GIMP is a Free Software, high-end photo manipulation application that supports creating original art from images; a high-end application for producing icons, graphical elements of web pages and art for user interface elements and also works as a platform for programming cutting-edge image processing algorithms, by scientists and artists. With the advent and spreading of digital pictures and imagery, being able to edit and change photos in a computer became a major task on the daily usage of personal computers. Everyone having at home tools far more powerful than those available to professional photographers for decades. Most pictures hardware do offer a gratis program with basic picture manipulation facilities - but one of the main purposes of Free Software is exactly to end the artificial restrictions of features and capabilities of any software. Therefore, GIMP provides a fully featured image manipulation environment available for everyone, and we have a goal of making it each time richer. Currently, GIMP is undergoing a deep change in its rendering core, which is being replaced by the Generic Graphics Library - GEGL. GEGL while being developed by members of the GIMP team and community and is also a modular and independent graph based image processing framework, with bindings to other languages. It aims to provide GIMP with a lot of currently missing high-end features such as non-destructive editing, deep color depth support, HDR, and macro recording. ### Projects - #### Tagging of GIMP Resources by Aurimas Juska, mentored by Sven Neumann - #### Improving the text-tool in GIMP by Daniel Eddeland, mentored by William Skaggs - #### Enhance Python Scripting Interface Experience by Lars-Peter Clausen, mentored by João Sebastião de Oliveira Bueno - #### Operations in Frequency Domain for GEGL by Zhang Junbo, mentored by Øyvind Kolås ## Git Development Community **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) As Git approaches its third anniversary, it is now the revision control system of choice for many of the largest and most successful open source projects, including the Linux kernel and at least eight other Google Summer of Code 2007 projects: ikiwiki, One Laptop Per Child, Samba, Thousand Parsec, The Wine Project, VideoLAN, XMMS2, and X.org. This achievement is the product of the lively Git development community, a loose-knit team of developers, technical writers, and end users with a passion for high quality open-source development. ### Projects - #### git statistics by Sverre Rabbelier, mentored by David Symonds - #### Gitweb caching by Lea Wiemann, mentored by John Hawley - #### Push operation implementation and GUI improvements for egit Eclipse plugin by Marek Zawirski, mentored by Shawn Pearce - #### Make git-merge Builtin by Miklos Vajna, mentored by Johannes Schindelin - #### implement git-sequencer by Stephan Beyer, mentored by Christian Couder ## The Globus Alliance **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** Apache License, 2.0 The Globus Alliance (http://www.globus.org/) is a community of organizations and individuals developing fundamental technologies behind the "Grid," which lets people share computing power, databases, instruments, and other on-line tools securely across corporate, institutional, and geographic boundaries without sacrificing local autonomy. Since its creation in 1996, the Globus Alliance has been committed to developing open source software, although development was initially carried out by a small number of university research groups. However, since transitioning in 2005 to an open governance model (http://dev.globus.org/), derived from Apache's Jakarta project, the scope of participants has widened to include many more groups around the world, including companies and individuals. Globus currently hosts more than 20 projects, actively developed by a community of more than 100 committers, and spanning a variety of technology concerns on grid systems: common runtime, data management, information management, security, and documentation. Additionally, members of the Globus community can propose new projects which, after an "incubation" process (http://dev.globus.org/wiki/Incubator/Incubator_Process) can escalate to full Globus projects. There are currently more than 25 projects in incubation. ### Projects - #### Implementing a KVM backend to the Globus workspace service by Michael Fenn, mentored by Katarzyna Keahey - #### Development of dynamic resource trading service for Virtual Workspaces by Artem Harutyunyan, mentored by Timothy Freeman - #### Integration of GridFTP with Freeloader storage system by Hesam Ghasemi, mentored by Rajkumar Kettimuthu - #### SAML Holder-of-Key Authentication for HTTP Single Sign-On in GridShib by Joana Matos Fonseca da Trindade, mentored by Thomas R. Scavo - #### XIO Compression Driver by Mattias Lidman, mentored by John - #### Credential Translation Service by Mehran Ahsant, mentored by Rachana Ananthakrishnan - #### Type Checking and Inference for SwiftScript by Milena Nikolic, mentored by Benjamin Clifford - #### Enabling market-based scheduling on OpenNebula and its integration with the Globus Workspace Service by William Voorsluys, mentored by Borja Sotomayor Basilio ## GNOME **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) The GNOME project provides two things: The GNOME desktop environment, an intuitive and attractive desktop for users, and the GNOME development platform, an extensive framework for building applications that integrate into the rest of the desktop. ### Projects - #### F-Spot: Sidebar improvements by Ruben Vermeersch, mentored by Stephane Delcroix - #### Google Reader Integration with Liferea by Arnold Joseph Noronha, mentored by Lars Lindner - #### Add Mobile Device Synchronization to Conduit Using SyncML by John Ross Stowers, mentored by John Carr - #### Integrating Vim with Anjuta by Arun Tejasvi Chaganty, mentored by Johannes Schmid - #### Cheese integration into Gnome by Felix Kaser, mentored by Daniel Siegel - #### Modern Download Manager for GNOME by Johan Svedberg, mentored by Diego Escalante Urrelo - #### Git Version Control Plugin for the Anjuta IDE by James R. Liggett, mentored by Naba Kumar - #### Anjuta VCS Plugins by William Fagan, mentored by Johannes Schmid - #### DPAP feature for f-spot by Andrzej Wytyczak-Partyka, mentored by Gabriel Burt - #### DVB Manager by Sebastian Poelsterl, mentored by Zaheer Abbas Merali - #### Making Evolution Data Server's calendar smaller and faster by Stanislav Slusny, mentored by Federico Mena-Quintero - #### Developping the VoIP features of Telepathy/Empathy with a focus on video conference ,both in the backend and the interface by Corvalan Cornejo Gabriel, mentored by Olivier Crete - #### Improvement of RAD functionality in Anjuta by Pavel Kostyuchenko, mentored by Johannes Schmid - #### Full iPod support for Conduit by Alexandre Inacio Rosenfeld, mentored by John Carr - #### Reducing memory fragmentation in GNOME by Soare Andrei, mentored by Federico Mena-Quintero - #### In the Mood: a predictive listening plugin for Rhythmbox by Charlotte Curtis, mentored by Philip Van Hoof - #### Tagging and Emblems on the GNOME Desktop by Clemens Buss, mentored by Christian Kellner - #### Extend Cheese with OpenGL effects by Filippo Argiolas, mentored by Daniel Siegel - #### Make Evolution use Seahorse widgets for encryption and key selection by Zhang Shunchang, mentored by Philip Van Hoof - #### Integrated printer management: getting the \[print\] job done! by Rui Tiago Cação Matos, mentored by Ghee Seng Teo - #### An Anjuta plugin for the Vala programming language by Abderrahim Kitouni, mentored by Jürg Billeter - #### Integrated Media Management for GNOME by Cosimo Cecchi, mentored by Nicolas Trangez - #### Record Speech as Tomboy Note by Gabriel Geraldo Franca Marcondes, mentored by Nickolay Shmyrev - #### LLMNR Protocol Integration in Avahi. by Sunil Kumar Ghai, mentored by Trent Lloyd - #### Soylent by Sven Pfaller, mentored by Travis Reitter - #### Color Profile support in f-spot by Vasiliy Kirilichev, mentored by Lawrence Ewing ## GNU Project **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) The GNU Project was launched in 1984 to develop a complete Unix-like operating system which is entirely free software: the GNU system. ### Projects - #### GRUB2: USB Support by Marco Gerards, mentored by Robert Millan - #### GNUnet - HTTPS transport service for GNUnet by Amir Sagie, mentored by Christian Grothoff - #### Gnowser for GNOWSYS by Divya, mentored by Nagarjuna Gadiraju - #### GNU Project: improving Wget internationalization support by Saint Xavier, mentored by Micah Cowan - #### phpGroupWare \> Rework Setup by Andriy Kushnarov, mentored by Dave Hall - #### UnRTF Upgrade by Arkadiusz Firus, mentored by David Frank Davey - #### GNU IceCat upgrade to Mozilla Firefox 3 by Giuseppe Scrivano, mentored by karl berry - #### A proper HTTP authentication for Wget by Julien BUTY, mentored by Micah Cowan - #### GRUB Fancy menu interface by Colin David Bennett, mentored by Vesa Jaaskelainen ## Gnumeric **Homepage:** [www.gnumeric.org](http://www.gnumeric.org) **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) A spreadsheet. Free, Fast, Accurate: Pick any 3. ### Projects - #### Adding 3D plots support for Gnumeric/GOffice by Mariusz Adamski, mentored by Jean Brefort ## GNUstep **Homepage:** [www.gnustep.org](http://www.gnustep.org) **Preferred License:** GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL) GNUstep is a cross-platform, object-oriented framework for desktop application development. GNUstep enables developers to rapidly build sophisticated software by employing a large library of reusable software components. ### Projects - #### Addressing desktop integration issues by Hubert Chathi, mentored by Fred Kiefer ## Google **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** Apache License, 2.0 ### Projects - #### Create a NTPv4 MIB module for NET-SNMP by Heiko Gerstung, mentored by Harlan Stenn - #### An Open Source GUI for the Carneades Argumentation Framework by Matthias Grabmair, mentored by Dr. Thomas F. Gordon - #### libquantum - parallel version by Thiago Resek Fabri dos Anjos, mentored by Rodolfo Jardim de Azevedo ## GStreamer **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL) GStreamer is the de-facto standard multimedia framework for Unix and Linux systems. Thanks to recent advances GStreamer is also gaining traction as a cross-platform multimedia system with adopters such as Songbird and Pioneer. ### Projects - #### QuicktimeMP4Muxer by Thiago Sousa Santos, mentored by Wim Taymans - #### PiTiVi Open-Source Video Editor by Brandon J Lewis, mentored by Edward Hervey - #### Farsight 2: Plugins for proprietary IM protocols (MSN) by Richard Spiers, mentored by Olivier Crete - #### Media service to transcode video and audio in different formats by Roberto Faga Jr, mentored by Stefan Kost ## Project Hackystat **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** Apache License, 2.0 The mission of Project Hackystat is to provide a framework for collection, analysis, visualization, interpretation, annotation, and dissemination of software development process and product data. Work on Hackystat began in 2001 as a research activity in the Collaborative Software Developmnt Laboratory (http://csdl.ics.hawaii.edu/) in the Department of Information and Computer Sciences (http://www.ics.hawaii.edu) at the University of Hawaii (http://www.hawaii.edu). From 2001 to 2006, the project grew a substantial code base (approximately 350,000 LOC), user community (over 800 users of the "public" Version 7 Hackystat server, with an undetermined additional number of users on private servers), and developers (dozens of contributors to the code base from approximately 20 academic and industry sites). A significant number of publications occurred during this time (a partial list of which is available at http://code.google.com/p/hackystat/wiki/Publications). In addition, there was one commercial, non-open source spin-off based upon a subset of this project called Sixth Sense Analytics (http://www.6thsenseanalytics.com/). A summary of Project Hackystat's release history is available at http://code.google.com/p/hackystat/wiki/History. In 2007, we made the decision to reimplement the code base almost entirely from scratch as a coordinated set of RESTful web services. This effort took nine months, and Version 8 has been in public release since January, 2008. We also decided to move the hosting of the project from the University of Hawaii to Google Project Hosting. The old site is still available at http://xenia.ics.hawaii.edu, although it is no longer maintained. ### Projects - #### Daily Project Data Viewer by Shaoxuan Zhang, mentored by Philip Meadows Johnson - #### Hackystat Sensor for Visual Studio Team foundation Server by Matthew Basset, mentored by Greg Wilson - #### Visualizing HackyStat Data Using Flare by Wong I Wa, mentored by Greg Wilson ## Haiku **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** MIT license We are a project dedicated to the creation of a new open source operating system designed from the ground up for desktop computing called Haiku. Inspired by the BeOS, Haiku aims to provide users of all levels with a personal computing experience that is simple yet powerful, and free of any unnecessary complexities. Haiku is supported by Haiku Inc., a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization founded with the purpose of promoting our project. ### Projects - #### Application for Implementing paging (swap file) support by Zhao Shuai, mentored by Ingo Weinhold - #### Implement HPET support in Haiku by Dustin Howett, mentored by Stefano Ceccherini - #### Sub-pixel antialiasing by Andrej Spielmann, mentored by Stehan Aßmus ## haskell.org **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** New BSD license Haskell.org is the community focus for explaining, supporting, and promoting the open-source programming language Haskell. Haskell is an advanced purely functional programming language. The product of more than twenty years of cutting edge research, it allows rapid development of robust, concise, correct software. With strong support for integration with other languages, built-in concurrency, debuggers, profilers, rich libraries and an active community, Haskell makes it easier to produce flexible, maintainable high-quality software. ### Projects - #### GHC API Improvements by Thomas Schilling, mentored by Simon Marlow - #### Dynamically Loaded Plugins for the Glasgow Haskell Compiler by Maximilian Conroy Bolingbroke, mentored by Sean Seefried - #### Haskell API Search as an interface to Hackage by Neil Mitchell, mentored by Niklas Broberg - #### Language.C, a standalone parser/pretty printer library for C99 by Benedikt Huber, mentored by Iavor S. Diatchki - #### Cabal 'make-like' dependency framework by Andrea Vezzosi, mentored by Duncan Coutts - #### #1560 Efficient maps using generalised tries by Jamie Brandon, mentored by Adrian Charles Hey - #### Data parallel physics engine by Roman Cheplyaka, mentored by Manuel M T Chakravarty ## Mercurial (a project of the Software Freedom Conservancy) **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) Mercurial is a state of the art distributed version control system written mostly in Python (some performance-sensitive parts are written in C). We have a small band of developers and some big projects using our software (Mozilla, OpenJDK, OpenSolaris). We are part of the Software Freedom Conservancy and would like to find some more people to help us develop our software in the DVCS competition. ### Projects - #### Mercurial: Implementation of a rebasing feature by Stefano Tortarolo, mentored by Matthew Mackall - #### File manager integration for Linux (TortoiseHG) by German Poo-Caamano, mentored by Peter Arrenbrecht ## GNU Hurd **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) The Hurd project is a loose community of people sharing a common interest in developing the Hurd kernel, which is the official kernel of the GNU operating system (see http://gnu.org ). When the Hurd was originally started in 1990, it was the last missing major component for a complete GNU system. Today Linux and other free kernels are available to fill this gap, and the combination of GNU and Linux (often incorrectly called just "Linux", see http://www.gnu.org/gnu/why-gnu-linux.html ) is in wide use. However, the Hurd is still interesting due to its unique design, better fitting the GNU philosophy than traditional monolithic kernels like Linux. The GNU GPL guarantees that all users of software published under this license get the legal permission to adapt the software they are using according to their wishes, and also get the source code and other tools necessary to put this permission to use. However, in traditional operating systems, the kernel and related low-level system software are protected from normal users, and cannot be easily modified; only the system administrator has power over these. The Hurd offers special mechanisms that allow any user to change almost all of the system functionality he uses, without affecting the rest of the system, and thus easily (at runtime) and without any special permissions. This ability to run subenvironments more or less independant from the rest of the system, can be classified as a very sophisticated lightweight virtualization approach. (See http://tri-ceps.blogspot.com/2007/10/advanced-lightweight-virtualization.html ) To offer these possibilities, the Hurd uses a true multiserver microkernel architecture. That makes it quite unique: The Hurd is the only general-purpose multiserver microkernel system in development today that is nearly ready for everyday use, and offering almost perfect UNIX compatibility. (More than half of the packages in the Debian repository are available for the Hurd.) All other existing true microkernel systems are either research projects not nearly complete enough for actual use, or limited to embedded systems and other special purposes, or both. Marcus Brinkmann and Neal Walfield from the Hurd project are working at the bleeding edge of microkernel operating system research. They have been in contact with the most distinguished researchers in that field from the L4 ( http://l4hq.org/ ) and EROS ( http://www.eros-os.org/eros.html ) / Coyotos ( http://www.coyotos.org/ ) microkernel operating system groups, and have written a couple of research papers ( http://walfield.org/ ). ### Projects - #### Lisp bindings for libtrivfs and libnetfs by Flávio Manuel Fernandes Cruz, mentored by Pierre Thierry - #### Porting dtrace to hurd by Andrei Barbu, mentored by Samuel Thibault - #### Virtualization Using Hurd Mechanisms by Da Zheng, mentored by Olaf Buddenhagen - #### GNU Hurd : GNU/Linux compatible procfs pseudo-filesystem by Madhusudan C S, mentored by Olaf Buddenhagen ## Hypertriton, Inc. **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** New BSD license We are a small R\&D firm based in Quebec (with an office in the US). For the past 10 years, we have allowed developers to work full-time on free open-source projects, such as Agar (a portable GUI toolkit), FreeSG (a scene graph / computational geometry / constraint solver / math library), and more recently, open-source 3D CAD/CAM suite called cadtools. We focus mainly on engineering and scientific applications, but our main source of revenue being hosting, we also maintain a set of daemons and tools for high-availability server arrays. ### Projects - #### Extend a mixed-signal circuit simulator to support non-linear devices : numerical aspect by Antoine Levitt, mentored by Julien Nadeau - #### Non-Linear Device Models for Agar-EDA by Steven Herbst, mentored by Julien Nadeau ## International Components for Unicode **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** X.Net License ICU is a collaborative effort between Google, IBM, Apple and several other companies that produces a multi platform and multi programming language internationalization library. The goal of the library is to provide implementation of the Unicode standard and a set of internationalization related tools and APIs. ### Projects - #### ICU Samples and Demos Proposal by Samuel Michael McCallum Ryan, mentored by Vladimir Weinstein - #### JSP demo for ICU4J by Marija Sljivovic, mentored by Vladimir Weinstein ## Ingres **Homepage:** [www.ingres.com](http://www.ingres.com) **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) Ingres is a leading provider of open source information management services to the enterprise. Born out of Berkeley and built on over 25 years of technology investment, Ingres is a leader in software and service innovation, providing the enterprise with proven reliability combined with the value and flexibility of open source. The company's partnerships with leading open source providers further enhance the Ingres value proposition. In particular, Ingres is working with leading business intelligence providers to deliver appliances that combine the benefits of open source with advanced reporting and data analysis capabilities. Based in Redwood City, California, Ingres also has major development, sales and support centers throughout the world, supporting thousands of customers in the United States and internationally. ### Projects - #### Debug forensics framework by Anthony Stanisci, mentored by Andrew Ross - #### Porting Ingres Cafe to Linux (Fedora Core) by Samrat Singh Dhillon, mentored by Andrew Ross - #### Backup tool enhancements by Thanh Ha, mentored by Andrew Ross ## Inkscape **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) The Inkscape project develops the inkscape SVG editor, one of the best open source drawing programs available for Linux, OSX, Windows, and other platforms. ### Projects - #### SVG Fonts by Felipe Correa da Silva Sanches, mentored by Richard Hughes - #### Lib2geom integration: path representation by Johan Engelen, mentored by Peter Moulder - #### lib2geom development by Marco Cecchetti, mentored by Nathan Hurst - #### Tech Drawing Abilities for Inkscape by Maximilian Albert, mentored by bulia byak - #### Test Suite by Jasper Joris van de Gronde, mentored by Theodore J. Gould ## Internet Archive **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** Apache License, 2.0 The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit Internet library, offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to digital-format historical collections. The Internet Archive is best known for its 'Wayback Machine' access to over 10 years' of public web site archives; its leading role in the Open Content Alliance mass book digitization effort; and its free audio and video collections, including thousands of live music shows. In partnership with libraries around the world (http://netpreserve.org), the Internet Archive's web group has developed open source software in Java to help organizations build their own web archives, including the Heritrix crawler, the Wayback archive browser, and NutchWAX tools for using Nutch/Lucene for web archive full text search. ### Projects - #### Text-based image search capability for NutchWAX by Miklós Bálint Erdélyi, mentored by Aaron Binns - #### Web Spam Detection for Heritrix by Ping Wang, mentored by Gordon Mohr - #### Book Viewer for the OLPC by Aleksandar Kalev, mentored by siznax - #### Spam/Crawler Trap Detection Module For Heritrix by Khanh Nguyen, mentored by Vinay Goel ## Internet2 **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** New BSD license Internet2 is the foremost U.S. advanced networking consortium. Led by the research and education community since 1996, Internet2 promotes the missions of its members by providing both leading-edge network capabilities and unique partnership opportunities that together facilitate the development, deployment and use of revolutionary Internet technologies. ### Projects - #### Java client for OWAMP by Merlijn Hofstra, mentored by Aaron Brown - #### NPToolkit/Knoppix Live CD Improvements by Daniel Bracey, mentored by Richard Carlson - #### perfSONAR Web Admin by Ahmed H. El-Hassany, mentored by Jason Zurawski - #### Python IDC Client API by Gianluca Campanella, mentored by Andrew Lake ## Jato **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** Apache License, 2.0 Jato is a project to build a JIT compiler on top of Jam VM which is a free Java virtual machine. ### Projects - #### 64 bit integers on x86 by Arthur Huillet, mentored by Pekka Enberg - #### Enhancing Jato by providing multiple features by Saeed Muhammad Abdullah, mentored by Pekka Enberg ## Jikes RVM **Homepage:**
**Preferred License:** Common Public License 1.0 Jikes RVM (Research Virtual Machine) provides a flexible open testbed to prototype virtual machine technologies and experiment with a large variety of design alternatives. It differs from other JVM projects in that it is written in Java whilst having a full adaptive optimization framework. It is a vehicle for testing a wide range of ideas including compiler research, memory management research, Java operating systems, computer architecture, and aspect oriented programming to name a few. Over 150 research papers have been published which use Jikes RVM. ### Projects - #### Integration of Jikes RVM and JNode by Georgios Gousios, mentored by Ian Rogers - #### Title: Debugging Support (RVM-33) by Byeongcheol Lee, mentored by Kathryn S McKinley - #### New: Pure Native Threading by Filip Pizlo, mentored by Antony Hosking ## Joomla **Homepage:** [www.joomla.org](http://www.joomla.org) **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) We are an open source web based content management system. ### Projects - #### Joomla! semantification - expose Joomla data as RDF and Linked Data by Danh Le Phuoc, mentored by Sören Auer - #### Forms Component by Mostafa Muhammad, mentored by Jui-Yu Tsai - #### Component for management of research-related work by Luis Antonio Galárraga Del Prado, mentored by Nereyda Valentin-Macias - #### JooMultimedia Portal by Marcelo Eden Siqueira, mentored by Matheus Teixeira Mendes - #### CiviCRM features: Multi-language support by Piotr Szotkowski, mentored by Wes Morgan - #### Contact \& Mini Web Directory Component for Joomla!: by Chantal Bisson, mentored by Samuel Alexander Moffatt - #### Tagging of Joomla Content by Jacek Zielinski, mentored by Paul J. Ambrose - #### Joomla! Advanced Media Manager by Nakul Ganesh S, mentored by deborah susan clarkson - #### Content Type Management by Ercan Ozkaya, mentored by Jason Kendall - #### Version Control for article component by Flavio Adalberto Kubota, mentored by Ian MacLennan ## K-3D **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) K-3D has produced free-as-in-freedom 3D CGI tools designed to scale to the needs of professionals for nearly 15 years. ### Projects - #### NURBS Modeling Tools by Carsten Thomas Haubold, mentored by Bart Janssens - #### GPU-Based processing for K-3D filters by Evan Lezar, mentored by Bart Janssens - #### An Integrated Shader Designer by Alexander Curtis, mentored by Timothy M. Shead - #### File import/export plugins by Carlos Andres Dominguez Caballero, mentored by Joaquin Duo ## KDE **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) KDE is an international technology team that creates integrated Free/Open Source Software for desktop and portable computing. Among KDE's products are a modern desktop system for Linux and UNIX platforms, comprehensive office productivity and groupware suites and hundreds of software titles in many categories including Internet and web applications, multimedia, entertainment, educational, graphics and software development. Building on the cross-platform capabilities of Trolltech®'s Qt®, KDE4's full-featured applications run natively on Linux, BSD, Solaris, Windows and Mac OS X. ### Projects - #### Context View development and Applet writing for Amarok by William Viana Soares, mentored by Leonardo Franchi - #### Media Device Support in Amarok 2 with Collections by Alejandro Wainzinger, mentored by Jeff Mitchell - #### A Plan for Automatic Playlists in Amarok by Daniel Jones, mentored by Lydia Pintscher - #### Redesigning Amarok Scripting Interface by ZHOU Lei, mentored by Mark Kretschmann - #### Kexi Web Forms by Lorenzo Villani, mentored by Jaroslaw Staniek - #### Amarok: MP3Tunes Service Enhancements by Casey Link, mentored by Nikolaj Hald Nielsen - #### Converting the old KPresenter format KPR to ODF by Carlos Manuel Licea Vázquez, mentored by Casper Boemann - #### Sumi-e brush engine for Krita by Lukas Tvrdy, mentored by Boudewijn Rempt - #### Calligraphy support in Karbon by Fela Winkelmolen, mentored by Jan Hambrecht - #### Notes and Presenter View Support for KPresenter by Fredy Yanardi, mentored by Thorsten Zachmann - #### Improve ISO OpenDocument support by Pierre Ducroquet, mentored by Sebastian Sauer - #### Integrate Decibel into the KDE 4 environment by George Goldberg, mentored by Tobias Hunger - #### Rock-Solid C++ Support for KDevelop-4 by David Nolden, mentored by Hamish Gordon Rodda - #### StepGame: educational game based on Step by Aliona Kuznetsova, mentored by Carsten Niehaus - #### Vector Tiles for Marble by Patrick Spendrin, mentored by Torsten Rahn - #### Integration of the QtWebKit based KPart by Urs Wolfer, mentored by Allan Sandfeld Jensen - #### Implement the 'extender' interface concept in plasma. by Rob Scheepmaker, mentored by Aaron Seigo - #### Vi-like, modal editing mode for Kate by Erlend Hamberg, mentored by Christoph Cullmann - #### Plasma Widgets on the Screensaver by Chani Armitage, mentored by Sebastian Kügler - #### Easy monitor hot-plug support in KDE by Aike Jan Sommer, mentored by Aaron Seigo - #### KMail enhancements and porting to native Qt4 by Szymon Tomasz Stefanek, mentored by Thomas McGuire - #### KIO improvements by Andreas Christian Hartmetz, mentored by David Faure - #### Integration of WebKit SVG library with KHTML by Vyacheslav Tokarev, mentored by Maksim Orlovich - #### KDE/Plasma for small form-factor devices by Marijn Kruisselbrink, mentored by Adriaan de Groot - #### Kross plugins support for KDevPlatform by Aleix Pol Gonzalez, mentored by Matt Rogers - #### Improve KWord MS Word filter by Benjamin Richard Cail, mentored by Boudewijn Rempt - #### Plasmagik: The Packager by Joseph Burns, mentored by Riccardo Iaconelli - #### Panoramio / Wikipedia -photo support for Marble by Shashank Singh, mentored by Torsten Rahn - #### RSS framework on top of Akonadi by Dmitry Ivanov, mentored by Frank Osterfeld - #### Optimising loading and painting of stars in KStars by Akarsh Simha, mentored by Jason Harris - #### xUnit test harness for Kdevelop4 by Manuel Breugelmans, mentored by Andreas Pakulat - #### Practice Made Perfect -- Recreating Parley's Practice Interface by David Capel, mentored by Jeremy Paul Whiting - #### Automated vocabulary creation for Parley by Avgoustinos Kadis, mentored by Frederik Gladhorn - #### KDevelop DVCS(VCS) support by Evgeniy Ivanov, mentored by Oleksandr Dymo - #### Akonadi testing framework by Igor Trindade Oliveira, mentored by Kevin Krammer - #### Kobby, collaborative editor by Gregory A Haynes, mentored by Andreas Ramm - #### Desktop Cube Effect for KWin by Martin Graesslin, mentored by Lubos Lunak - #### Make KPilot ready for KDE 4.2 by A. H. J. Broeksema, mentored by Jason Kasper - #### The GraphicsView port of Umbrello and UI improvements. by Gopala Krishna A, mentored by Jonathan Riddell - #### A content fetching plugin for KGet by Ningyu Shi, mentored by Anthony Livingston Bryan - #### Implementation of NX technology in KRDC by Gross David, mentored by George Wright - #### Jingle video and voice chat in Kopete. by Detlev Casanova, mentored by Olivier Goffart - #### Nepomuk Collection-Plugin for Amarok by Daniel Winter, mentored by Sebastian Trueg ## Linden Lab (Second Life) **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) Linden Lab is a privately-held software company founded in 1999 to create Second Life, a world where individuals jointly inhabit a 3D landscape and build the world around them. Second Life has a rapidly growing population of Residents from around the globe, who are creating and inhabiting a virtual world of their own design. Since opening to the public in 2003, it has grown explosively and today is inhabited by millions of Residents from around the globe. In January 2007, Linden Lab made the Second Life viewer source code available under the GPL, enabling developers to download the Second Life end user software and make modifications and additions to the code. Since that time, alternate implementations of the simulator (server) code have been created, and a working group has been formed to codify and eventually standardize the client-server protocol (the Second Life Grid Architecture Working Group) ### Projects - #### Screen-space Ambient Occlusion by Alexander Yuan, mentored by David Parks ## The Linux Foundation **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** MIT license The Linux Foundation is a nonprofit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux. Founded in 2007 as a merger of the former Free Standards Group (FSG) and the former Open Source Developer Lab (OSDL), the LF sponsors the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and is supported by leading Linux and open source companies and developers from around the world. The Linux Foundation promotes, protects and standardizes Linux by providing unified resources and services needed for open source to successfully compete with closed platforms. More: https://www.linux-foundation.org/en/About ### Projects - #### OpenPrinting database: Web-based (CGI) software for reviewing and triaging user-contributed printer entries and comments by Subhankar Sett, mentored by Till Kamppeter - #### Common Printing Dialog by Alexander Wauck, mentored by Jonathan Riddell - #### CUPS implementation of the Open Printing API by Cherif YAYA, mentored by Norm Jacobs - #### Provide complete user-space support for Smack by Ahmed S. Darwish, mentored by Casey Schaufler - #### Kernel Memory Profiler (kmemtrace) by Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu, mentored by Pekka Enberg - #### Develop a DBUS interface for the common printing dialog by Lars Uebernickel, mentored by Jonathan Riddell - #### Improving and Stabilizing KVM Real-Mode Support for Intel Hosts by Mohammed Gamal, mentored by Henri Han van Riel - #### Steps toward PDF as printjob transfer language by Tobias Hoffmann, mentored by Hin-Tak Leung ## LispNYC **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL) Lisp NYC is a group devoted to the advocacy and advancement of professional software developers in their adoption of Lisp-based and functional programming technologies such as Common Lisp, Scheme, Arc, Clojure, etc. We accomplish this through targeted programs of education and outreach well as regular monthly meetings, email lists, development projects spirited conversation with NY metro area Lisp professionals. ### Projects - #### ErlangInLisp by Matthew Bone, mentored by Francois-Rene Rideau - #### SBCL Windows Threading by Elliott Slaughter, mentored by Christophe Rhodes - #### cl-openid: OpenID Provider and Relying Party implementation by Maciej Pasternacki, mentored by Anton Vadanosau ## LLVM Compiler Infrastructure **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License LLVM is an open source compiler infrastructure project, providing aggressive static compilation as well as JIT code generation. LLVM supports optimization and code generation for many architectures. ### Projects - #### Generics support for N3 by Tilmann Scheller, mentored by Nicolas Geoffray - #### Support for C++ classes in Clang by Argiris Kirtzidis, mentored by Chris Lattner - #### PSP (Playstation Portable) support into LLVM Mips backend by Bruno Cardoso Lopes, mentored by Eric Marshall Christopher ## MacPorts **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** Apache License, 2.0 MacPorts is a ports collection and packaging system for Mac OS X. We have about 4500 active ports, many of which accept multiple variants. MacPorts is one of the primary means by which open source software is compiled for and installed onto Mac OS X, and is thus a primary interface between Mac OS and the rest of the open source world. ### Projects - #### MacPorts Framework: A Cocoa Framework for the MacPorts Tcl based API by George Armah, mentored by Randall Wood - #### Root privileges by Paul Magrath, mentored by Rainer Mueller ## MetaBrainz Foundation Inc. **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) The MetaBrainz Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit headquartered in San Luis Obispo, CA that operates the MusicBrainz project. MusicBrainz is an open source/open data project to collect vast quantities of data about music and make it available to the public. ### Projects - #### Music collection by Niklas Berglund, mentored by Robert Kaye - #### Port the existing mb_server code base to use Template Toolkit templates by Oliver Charles, mentored by Lukas Lalinsky - #### Wizard for PicardQt by Alexander Hupfer, mentored by Philipp Wolfer ## Computer Systems Research Group, Vrije Universiteit (MINIX) **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** New BSD license MINIX 3 is a small, modular, multiserver operating system aimed at being highly reliable, fault tolerant and self healing. Only about 5000 lines of code run in kernel mode. The rest runs as a collection of user processes, mostly separate processes for each device driver and server. If a driver fails, it is automatically replaced by a fresh copy, without user intervention (or even knowledge) and without affecting running programs. Few other systems can survive fatal errors in some critical system components without even missing a beat. The goal of reliable systems will have been achieved when no computer has a RESET button and no user has ever experienced a crash and does not know anyone personally who has ever experienced a crash. MINIX 3 supports the POSIX interface and about 500 of the standard UNIX programs have been ported to it, including X11, gcc, perl, python, ghostview, mplayer, the GNU core utilities, and many more. There is also a a simple GUI (EDE). Nevertheless there is much more to do. You can help. ### Projects - #### Sofeware RAID by Wu Bingzheng, mentored by Jorrit N. Herder ## Mixxx **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) Mixxx is a cross-platform, open source DJ mixing application suitable for amateur and live professional use. Mixxx began as one of the earliest digital DJ solutions, and as a result has attracted a large worldwide userbase. Our continuing mission is to provide these users with an open source DJ application with features that rival and lead proprietary commercial solutions such as Traktor, MixVibes, and Virtual DJ. ### Projects - #### Implementing an improved MIDI control system into the Mixxx project by Thomas Lachlan Care, mentored by Garth Dahlstrom - #### Creating a new Waveform View handler for Mixxx by Russell Ryan, mentored by Albert Santoni - #### Crash Recovery For Mixxx by Zach Elko, mentored by Adam Davison ## MoinMoin Wiki Project **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) The MoinMoin project is developing a popular wiki engine in Python. Wikis are getting more and more important for the communication infrastructure of OSS groups all over the world. Especially groups like Apache, Ubuntu, Python, Debian, Fedora, Xen, KernelNewbies, linuxwiki.org (de), etc. are using MoinMoin to keep the contact going with their users and developers and for documentation. We have some few long-time core developers, some more casual developers and quite many developers contributing plugin code. Additionally, many people work on the wikis improving documentation and translating it to about 40 languages. ### Projects - #### WSGI refactoring of request/server code by Florian Krupicka, mentored by Armin Ronacher - #### Extend and refactor the MoinMoin Storage Engine by Christopher Denter, mentored by Johannes Berg - #### Tree based output formatter by Bastian Blank, mentored by Thomas Waldmann - #### Mercurial backend storage for MoinMoin Wiki by Pawel Pacana, mentored by Radomir Dopieralski - #### Update FCKEditor for MoinMoin Wiki by Moon Byeongweon, mentored by Alexander Schremmer ## Mono Project **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** MIT license We implement the open source implementation of C# and the CLI runtime (ECMA 334 and 335) as well as other libraries both for server and client applications. ### Projects - #### Make Galaxium Instant Messenger Rock by Ben Motmans, mentored by Michael James Hutchinson - #### Implementation of the .NET Parallel extensions for the Mono Project by Jeremie Laval, mentored by Paolo Molaro - #### Monsoon and MonoTorrent by Alan McGovern, mentored by Lawrence Ewing - #### MS Fluent UI compliance for the Ribbon lib by Laurent Debacker, mentored by Miguel de Icaza - #### Windows.Forms Theming by George Giolfan, mentored by Jonathan Pobst - #### Cloverleaf: A Mono Framework Add-In For Visual Studio by Edward Ropple III, mentored by Andreia Vidigal Gaita - #### Integration of the Mono debugger within MonoDevelop by Alfonso Santos Luaces, mentored by Pablo Santos - #### Applying Gendarme to Mono by Nestor Salceda Alonso, mentored by Sebastien Pouliot - #### Improvements to Lunar Eclipse by Manuel Alejandro Ceron Estrada, mentored by Miguel de Icaza - #### PHP compiler on .NET and Mono platforms by Miloslav Beno, mentored by Marek Safar - #### Linq binding for sqlite by Pablo Iñigo Blasco, mentored by Atsushi Enomoto - #### MonoShell: A PowerShell-like object oriented shell by Jonathan Benjoseph, mentored by Igor Moochnick ## Moodle **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) Moodle is working to develop the very best tool for online learning. Our software is a Learning Management System written in PHP, designed to help teachers facilitate communities of learners in a variety of interesting ways. Moodle is widely used around the world by universities, schools, companies, and all manner of organizations and individuals who need to conduct education online. Many of our users take part in the community on moodle.org and contribute with ideas, debate, testing, education, documentation, bug fixing, feature writing and everything else that makes an open source project function. ### Projects - #### Detecting and solving specific usability issues. by Laia Subirats Maté, mentored by David Jesús Horat Flotats - #### XMLDB/SQLite by Bautu Andrei, mentored by Penny Leach - #### Moodle IDE by Grady Laksmono, mentored by Petr Škoda - #### Animated grade statistics report by Daniel Servos, mentored by Greg Wilson - #### Blog Improvements and the Addition of a Blog Assignment Module by Joseph Morwick, mentored by Mathieu Petit-Clair - #### Improve Messaging System by Luis Filipe Romão Rodrigues, mentored by Martin Dougiamas - #### Secure RSS feeds by Askars Salimbajevs, mentored by Nicolas Connault - #### New customisable theme by Akshit Sharma, mentored by Shane Elliott ## The Mozilla Project **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** Mozilla Public License 1.1 (MPL) The mission of the Mozilla Project is to preserve choice and innovation on the Internet. We are the producer and provider of the award-winning Firefox web browser and Thunderbird e-mail software. We are an advocate for open standards on the Net, and provide tools for developing standard web content. We also provide software development tools used by hundreds of free software projects worldwide. ### Projects - #### Dehydra for Mingw by Bo Yang, mentored by Benjamin Smedberg - #### Automation of litmus tests by converting them to mochitests and xpcshell tests by Anoop Wilbur Saldanha, mentored by Shawn David Wilsher - #### Powerful search engine for SUMO by Alexandre Michelis, mentored by Nelson Ko - #### Online in-wiki screenshot annotator and editor by Shishir Mittal, mentored by David Tenser - #### Support OpenID as an account login in Bugzilla by Matheus Bastos Neves, mentored by Maxwell Kanat-Alexander - #### Google Contacts Extension for Thunderbird by Joshua Donald Geenen, mentored by Mark Philip Banner - #### Implementing Text Services Framework in Gecko by Ningjie Chen, mentored by Robert O'Callahan - #### Thunderbird integration into Windows Vista/Windows Search indexer by Siddharth Agarwal, mentored by Jeff Beckley - #### Adding new features to FUEL by Samer Ziadeh, mentored by Mark Finkle ## MySQL **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) MySQL develops and markets a family of high performance, affordable database servers and tools. Our mission is to make superior data management available and affordable for all. We contribute to building the mission-critical, high-volume systems and products worldwide. MySQL is a key part of LAMP, which is a fast growing open source enterprise software stack. MySQL is used in a lot of Web 2.0 related companies, including Google! ### Projects - #### BLOB Streaming Support for phpMyAdmin by Raj Kissu Rajandran, mentored by Marc Delisle - #### Streaming Enabled MySQL Driver for PHP by KishoreKumar Bairi, mentored by Paul McCullagh - #### Implementing an RBAC system for MySql Server by Sergey Kudriavtsev, mentored by Sergei Golubchik - #### A Test Scheduler for the MySQL Build Farm Initiative by Charles Song, mentored by Adam Porter - #### phpMyAdmin setup script rewrite by Piotr Przybylski, mentored by Michal Čihař - #### MySQL Forge \> RSS and Atom feeds system by Robert van der Mast, mentored by James Pipes - #### Adding parallelism to mysqldump by Daniel Pereira Volpato, mentored by Stewart E Smith - #### MySQL query analizing tool by Mikhail Maluyk, mentored by Philip Stoev - #### SIGAR Information schema plug-in by Muslimas Chochlovas, mentored by Mark Leith - #### Memcached for Query Cache by Kenneth Jay Breeman III, mentored by Brian Aker - #### MySql Slap by Towfeeque Aalam, mentored by Brian Aker ## NCSA - The National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** Apache License, 2.0 The University of Illinois' National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), one of the five original centers in the National Science Foundation's Supercomputer Centers Program, opened its doors in January 1986. Since then, NCSA has contributed significantly to the birth and growth of the worldwide cyberinfrastructure for science and engineering, operating some of the world's most powerful supercomputers and developing the software needed to efficiently use these systems (for example, NCSA Telnet and, in 1993, NCSA Mosaic™, the first readily available graphical Web browser). Today the center is recognized as an international leader in deploying robust high-performance computing resources and in working with research communities to develop new computing and software technologies. The center focuses on: Developing and deploying powerful, reliable computing, data, and networking resources that enable researchers to solve the most demanding science and engineering problems in a timely manner. We develop and explore innovative architectures and techniques to achieve petascale science. Working with research communities to develop the tailored cyberenvironments that provide the means to fully exploit the extraordinary resources available on the Internet (computing systems, data sources and stores, and tools). Researching and developing software, techniques, and tools to improve national cybersecurity and to help law enforcement better respond to cyberattacks. Providing insights into complex systems and sharing the thrill of scientific discovery with the broadest possible audience through artful visualizations of scientific phenomena. Preparing the next generation of scientists and engineers to effectively use the growing national cyberinfrastructure. The National Science Foundation, the state of Illinois, the University of Illinois, industrial partners, and other federal agencies support NCSA. Cyberenvironments and Technologies Division All the hammers and all the nails in the world can't build a house; tools alone just aren't enough to get the job done. It's the same in the world of cyberscience. The advantages of the national cyberinfrastructure won't be realized without scientists and engineers who are empowered to tap its capabilities. To that end, NCSA is developing cyber¬environments that will enable scientists and engineers to take full advantage of the nation's cyber-resources to drive scientific and engineering advances. Cyberenvironments will integrate distributed computing and data resources into end-to-end scientific processes, providing a boost in productivity. Cyberenvironments include scientific and engineering applications, graphical user interfaces and portals for easy interaction with the applications, and workflow and collaboration software, as well as an integrated data analysis and visualization capability. They couple traditional desktop scientific and engineering applications with national and global cyber-resources to provide researchers an unprecedented capability to assemble, integrate, automate, and manage complex, collaborative projects. Cyberenvironments will ensure that the capabilities in the national cyberinfrastructure can be brought to bear on the most challenging science and engineering issues facing the nation and the world. ### Projects - #### Tupelo in AIR - A front-end for Tupelo in Adobe AIR by Kang Zhang, mentored by James Douglas Myers - #### Multithreaded implementation of image processing algorithms for automatic classification and cropping of very large size collections of scanned paper documents by Piotr Wendykier, mentored by Peter Bajcsy - #### Mapping Geo-spatial and temporal information to/and from KML by Upeksha Uduwilaarachchi, mentored by Yong Liu ## NESCent - National Evolutionary Synthesis Center **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) NESCent facilitates synthetic research on grand challenge questions in evolutionary biology and also works to address critical needs in software infrastructure and education through promoting open, collaborative development of interoperable and standards-supporting open-source software. The Center is located in Durham, North Carolina, is jointly operated by Duke University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and North Carolina State University, and receives its core funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Together with developers from open-source life-science programming toolkits (BioPerl, Biojava, Biopython, Bioruby, BioSQL; collectively referred to as the Bio\* projects), evolutionary software packages, and recently developers of comparative phylogenetic methods NESCent has so far run two Hackathons, which continue to have significant and lasting impacts on the landscape of collaborative software development in our field. The Center is committed to FLOSS and sharing of scientific data (see for example the NESCent Data and Software Policy at http://www.nescent.org/informatics/data_software_policy.php); all software products of the Center are released as open source and established as collaborative projects on sites such as SourceForge. Members of the Center's Informatics team are lead developers in several open-source projects, and one of our organization administrators has been active on the Board of the Open Bioinformatics Foundation (http://open-bio.org/), the umbrella organization for the Bio\* projects, since seven years. ### Projects - #### SAX based phyloXML support in BioPerl by Mira Han, mentored by Chris Fields - #### Tree and data plotting in the phylobase project by Peter Cowan, mentored by Benjamin Michael Bolker - #### Graphviz navigation of databases by Paul McMillan, mentored by Brian C OMeara - #### An Extension of Mesquite based on PDSIMUL. by Matthew Steven Ackerman, mentored by Peter E. Midford - #### Enhancing the representation of ecophylogenetic tools in R by Matthew R. Helmus, mentored by Steven Kembel ## The NetBSD Project **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** New BSD license NetBSD is a free, secure, and highly portable Unix-like Open Source operating system available for many platforms, from 64-bit Opteron machines and desktop systems to handheld and embedded devices. Its clean design and advanced features make it excellent in both production and research environments, and it is user-supported with complete source. Many applications are easily available through pkgsrc, the NetBSD Packages Collection. ### Projects - #### Updated, customizable install tool for NetBSD by Zachary Wegner, mentored by Tim Rightnour - #### Add support for UVC devices (USB web-cams) by Patrick Mahoney, mentored by Jared D. McNeill - #### Improve syslogd by Martin Schütte, mentored by Christos Zoulas - #### File system access utilities by Arnaud Ysmal, mentored by Antti Kantee - #### wscons Expansion for wstablet in NetBSD by Jason W Beaudoin, mentored by Petra Zeidler - #### Converting remaining regression tests to the Automatic Testing Framework by Lukasz Strzygowski, mentored by Julio Manuel Merino Vidal - #### Implementation of RFC4380 (Teredo) in NetBSD by Arnaud Lacombe, mentored by David Young - #### Hurd translators by Marek Dopiera, mentored by Aymeric Vincent - #### Write and improve NetBSD LVM driver by Adam Hamšík, mentored by Brett Lymn - #### DVB drivers and kernel framework by Jeremy Morse, mentored by Jared D. McNeill - #### UPDATED: Subfile Support for NetBSD by Adam Burkepile, mentored by Philip Nelson ## NetSurf **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) We are the developers of NetSurf, a fast and small open source browser written in C with its own layout engine. NetSurf is designed to work well on resource-constrained or embedded platforms, and we currently support machines as slow as 200MHz StrongARMs with relatively little memory. More about the team is at http://www.netsurf-browser.org/about/team ### Projects - #### PDF Plotter and printing improvements by Adam Blokus, mentored by John Tytgat - #### Abstract the Core Functionality to Stand-alone Libraries by Sean Fox, mentored by James Bursa - #### Improved GTK Frontend by William Michael Lester, mentored by Rob Kendrick - #### Work on and integrate hubbub by Andrew Sidwell, mentored by John-Mark Bell ## Neuros Technology **Homepage:**
**Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) Neuros is a manufacturer of open multimedia devices that is fully committed to the use of open source software and methods for its products. All the source code is released as open source, mostly under the GPL license, and community involvement is a key component both in the design of the devices (with schematics for the hardware freely available) and in the development of software (with regular flow of patches from the community being included in the official repository). The current focus (and focus for SoC) is on the Neuros OSD and OSD 2, an open internet set-top box/media center/recorder. The Neuros OSD can consolidate all a users physical media into a single box (dvds, vhs tapes, home movies) and in the future will be able to do the same with all the downloadable and streaming video as well. The open Neuros OSD platform is an alternative to the closed, walled garden systems distributed by cable and satellite operators. ### Projects - #### Last.fm radio by Guillaume Beland, mentored by Anders Waldenborg - #### Porting a basic browser on Neuros OSD by Arnaud Granal, mentored by Ugo Riboni ## Nmap Security Scanner **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) Nmap ("Network Mapper") is a free and open source utility for network exploration or security auditing. Many systems and network administrators also find it useful for tasks such as network inventory, managing service upgrade schedules, and monitoring host or service uptime. Nmap uses raw IP packets in novel ways to determine what hosts are available on the network, what services (application name and version) those hosts are offering, what operating systems (and OS versions) they are running, what type of packet filters/firewalls are in use, and dozens of other characteristics. It was designed to rapidly scan large networks, but works fine against single hosts. Nmap runs on all major computer operating systems, and both console and graphical versions are available. ### Projects - #### Nmap Script Engine Infrastructure Manager by Patrick Donnelly, mentored by Fyodor Vaskovich - #### Zenmap developer by Vladimir Mitrovic, mentored by David Fifield - #### Feature Creeper / Bug Wrangler by Kris Katterjohn, mentored by Fyodor Vaskovich - #### Zenmap GUI and Functionality Upgrades by Jurand Nogiec, mentored by David Fifield - #### NSE - infrastructure manager by Philip Pickering, mentored by Diman Todorov - #### Feature Creeper / Bug Wrangler by Michael Pattrick, mentored by David Fifield ## The ns-3 Project **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) The goal of our project is to develop an open source network simulator targeted first to research purposes but which will hopefully, in time, be usable to a larger userbase than the network research community. ### Projects - #### Port current nsc and linux kernel release to ns-3 by Florian Westphal, mentored by Sam Jansen - #### Real World Application Integration by Liu Jian, mentored by Mathieu Lacage - #### Parallel Simulations by Hagen Paul Pfeifer, mentored by Dr. George F. Riley ## Natural User Interface Group **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL) Natural User Interface Group or NUI Group is an interactive media group researching and creating open source machine sensing techniques to benefit artistic and educational applications. NUI Group is also a world wide community, which offers a collaborative environment for developers that are interested in learning and sharing new HCI (Human Computer Interaction) methods and concepts. This may include topics such as: voice/handwriting/gesture recognition, touch computing, computer vision, and information visualization. Our current focus is "Open Source Interface", which is solely for accelerating development of existing hardware and sensing solutions, Thus allowing us to find the cheapest and most effective ways to construct our input devices. This project is truly amazing, which attracts a variety of people from around the globe. We are students, researchers, interaction designers, user interface designers, software engineers working on opens source hardware and software solutions. With over 1300 NUI Group members all over the world we are changing ways of human computer interaction. One very important aspect of this project is to create and utilize open standards that allows software development to flourish. For example, we use the TUIO protocol, which is the standard for tabletop communication. Another crucial standard that must be created in an open environment is "Gesture Standards", which allows for fluid interaction across input devices. Our doors are always open and looking for new people with similar interests and dreams. We believe that community is more powerful than money or technology. We are mainly maintaining a set of open source projects including: OpenTouch - WinLibre GSoC 2007 Best Success - multi-touch library for Mac OS X Touchlib - First open source library for multi-touch screen operation working under Linux and Windows TouchAPI- A library which allows for rapid prototyping of multi-touch client applications in Adobe Flash/Flex/AIR or Silverlight/WPF TUIO Simulator - Java TUIO protocol simulator allowing you to test your multitouch apps without multitouch screen (written by reactivision project team) Other than just mentioned projects, we are also looking forward to work with other open source projects like reactivision, libavg, opentable and many more that are widely used by NUI Group members. We have also started to work on multitouch applications for iPhone/iPod Touch using recently released iPhone SDK and we are waiting for innovative project proposals from community. ### Projects - #### Open source, multi‐touch based application for teaching of basic concepts of Physics by Stanislaw Zabramski, mentored by Johannes Hirche - #### TUIO Simulator by Ashish Kumar Rai, mentored by Paweł Sołyga - #### A general infrastructure for multi-touch and multi-user gesture recognition management for table-top applications by Alessandro De Nardi, mentored by Mikael Bauer - #### Implementing video processing for blob tracking on the GPU by Thomas Hansen, mentored by Mikael Bauer - #### NUI Touch Framework by Seth Sandler, mentored by Christian Moore - #### Enhanced human computer interface through webcam image processing library by Daniel Lelis Baggio, mentored by Paweł Sołyga ## OAR **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) OAR is a resource management system for high performance computing clusters. It is based upon an original design that emphasizes on low software complexity by using high level components. The global architecture is built upon the scripting language Perl, a relational database engine Mysql/Postgresql and a parallel/scalable remote execution tool for clusters TakTuk(http://taktuk.gforge.inria.fr/). OAR project's objective is to prove that it is possible today to build a complex system for resource management using such tools without sacrificing efficiency and scalability. ### Projects - #### Energy Saving Feature for OAR by Kamal Sharma, mentored by Yiannis Georgiou - #### OAR Support to Array Jobs and Job Dependencies by Elton Nicoletti Mathias, mentored by Joseph Emeras ## OGRE **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL) OGRE is a leading open-source real-time 3D graphics engine used for games, simulations, architectural and medical visualisation, or anything else that needs sweet, sweet 3D visuals in an open source package. Supports Windows, Linux and OS X (as well as extensions to other platforms) and multiple render systems. ### Projects - #### Add geometry shader support by Noam Gat, mentored by Assaf Raman - #### Different LOD Strategies by Christopher Bowen, mentored by Andres Carrera - #### OgreCollada by Jacobus Izak Van Aarde Krynauw, mentored by Christoph Nenning - #### Motion Synthesis based Character Animation by Lucas Westine, mentored by Cheyrou lagreze ## Ohloh Corporation **Homepage:** [www.ohloh.net](http://www.ohloh.net) AND source code: [labs.ohloh.net](http://labs.ohloh.net) **Preferred License:** GPL v2. We run an open-source "network". It's a mix of an open source directory and a developer social network. We track software development metrics for each project and the people developing them (over 100,000 open source developers so far). ### Projects - #### Integrating Ragel, a State Machine Compiler, into OhCount by Mitchell Foral, mentored by Robin Luckey - #### Expansion of language support for Ohcount by Fedor Aleksandrovich Korsakov, mentored by Jason Allen ## One Laptop per Child **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** Apache License, 2.0 The mission of the One Laptop per Child association is to develop a low-cost laptop and surrounding tools, materials, and communities, to transform education. We have a special focus on children and classes in rural parts of the developing world. ### Projects - #### Integration of Speech Synthesis in Sugar Environment by Hemant Goyal, mentored by Simon Schampijer - #### Listen and Spell by Assim Deodia, mentored by Dafydd Harries - #### Vision Processing by Nirav Patel, mentored by Chris Hager ## OMII-UK **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** Apache License, 2.0 OMII-UK develops and supports a wide range of open source software primarily aimed at the UK research community but, in general, available for anyone to use. OMII-UK software spans a wide range such as data access and sharing (OGSA-DAI), workflow enactment (Taverna), videoconferencing (PAG, RAT and VIC), and computational job execution (GridSAM, RAPID) enabling better use and sharing of resources across organisational boundaries to turn ideas into knowledge and promote collaborations between organisations and individuals. OMII-UK has a user-focused approach, encouraging the developments of communities that use OMII-UK software components together with other components in novel ways to enable world class research. ### Projects - #### Taverna Matlab extension by Petar Jovanovic, mentored by Stian Soiland-Reyes - #### congestion control for real-time interactive applications - VIC/RAT by Soo-Hyun Choi, mentored by Guy Piers O'Hanlon - #### Visual OGSA-DAI Workflow Editor by Nicola Salvo, mentored by Amy Krause - #### Semantic Workflows for Bioinformatics web services integration by suraj p waghulde, mentored by Ian William Dunlop - #### A Mapreduce framework for SAGA by Michael Miceli, mentored by Shantenu Jha - #### A SAGA based Glueing Service for Medical Applications by Yasir Mehmood, mentored by Andre Merzky ## Open64 **Homepage:**
**Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) Open64 is the final result of research contributions from a number of compiler groups around the world. Formerly known as Pro64, Open64 was initially created by SGI and licensed under the GNU Public License (GPL). It was derived from SGI's MIPSPro compiler. Open64 also derives from work done by Intel Corp, in conjunction with the Chinese Academy of Sciences. They created the Open Research Compiler (ORC), a specially modified version of Open64 with custom modifications for researchers. These changes were later folded back into the main Open64 source tree in 2005. Open64 has been retargetted to a number of architectures. Pathscale modified Open64 to create EkoPath, a compiler for the AMD64 architecture. The University of Delaware's Computer Architecture and Parallel Systems Laboratory (CAPSL) modified Open64 to create the Kylin Compiler, a compiler for Intel's X-Scale architecture. CAPSL and Hewlett-Packard are currently working on Osprey, a project to replace Open64's front end (derived from GCC 2.95's frontend) with the current GCC front end. The Open64 compiler suite currently includes compilers for C, C++, and Fortran90/95 compilers for the IA-64 Linux ABI and API standards. Open64 is currently in version 4.1. Professor Guang Gao and CAPSL at the University of Delaware are the current gatekeepers of the project. ### Projects - #### Function/Loop Specific Optimization by Eun Jung Park, mentored by John Cavazos - #### Implementation of a Static Analysis Phase for Detecting Potential Memory Leaks and Duplicate Free Bugs by Thomas St. John, mentored by Handong Ye ## OpenAFS **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** IBM Public License OpenAFS is an unincorporated open source project derived from IBM's commercial product that was released under the IBM Public License 1.0 in November 2000. OpenAFS is a globally available distributed file system designed to provide high levels of availability and superb performance in wide area networking environments. The OpenAFS organization consists of a governance board, the Elders; a team of release engineers and architects, the Gatekeepers; and a broad community of developers, system administrators and end users that contribute to the future of the product. ### Projects - #### OpenAFS Disconnected Operation Improvements by Dragos Tatulea, mentored by Simon Wilkinson - #### Read/Write replication for OpenAFS by Vishal Powar, mentored by Derrick Brashear - #### Implementing OpenAFS features into RedHat's kafs kernel module by Jacob Thebault-Spieker, mentored by David Howells ## OpenChange (a project of the Software Freedom Conservancy) **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) OpenChange aims to provide a portable Open Source implementation of Microsoft Exchange Server and Exchange protocols. Exchange is a groupware server designed to work with Microsoft Outlook, and providing features such as a messaging server, shared calendars, contact databases, public folders, notes and tasks. ### Projects - #### Add MAPI Support for Fetchmail by Yangyan Li, mentored by Jelmer Vernooij - #### Akonadi Resource by Alan Alvarez, mentored by Bradley John Hards ## OpenICC **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** New BSD license OpenIcc consist of the members of the so named email list. It was started by Scribus members to better support introduction of colour management into applications and discuss general issues. List contributors are application and CMS developers as well as colour management specialists and users, no matter whether commercial, open source and both together. ### Projects - #### KDE Control Panel for Color Management by Joseph Simon III, mentored by Jon Anthony Cruz - #### Color Management near X by Carnecky Tomas, mentored by Kai-Uwe Behrmann ## OpenInkpot **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) Open source project for creating a free/libre firmware for various e-ink based devices. ### Projects - #### Porting EFL and FBRreader to OpenInkpot by Alexander Kerner, mentored by Mikhail Gusarov - #### Cybook Gen3 Port by Ondřej Herman, mentored by Yauhen Kharuzhy - #### Port OpenInkpot to support Sony PRS-505 by Wenjie Zhang, mentored by Yauhen Kharuzhy ## OpenMoko Inc. **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) OpenMoko Inc. is a vendor working on open, hackable mobile phones featuring a completely open source software stack on the CPU. OpenMoko targets power users and developers to create exciting new applications bringing forwards Mark Weiser's vision of Ubiquitous Computing. ### Projects - #### PIM storage for the mobile world by Soeren Apel, mentored by m. dietrich - #### OpenMoko Mail by Vladimir Mihaylov, mentored by Thomas Wood - #### Accelerometer-based Gestures by Paul-Valentin Borza, mentored by Daniel Willmann - #### SMS middleware by Patryk Szymczak, mentored by Michael Lauer - #### odeviced: Open Device Daemon for FreeRunner/Neo1973 complying with freesmartphone.org specs by Sudharshan S, mentored by Michael Lauer - #### Implementation of a OpenMoko remote controller by Valério Domingos Valério, mentored by Daniel Willmann - #### Flexible answering machine by Frederik Sdun, mentored by Thomas Wood - #### IM/VoIP using telepathy by Deniz Koçak, mentored by Robert McQueen - #### speech recognition facility in open moko by Saurabh Gupta, mentored by Luis Gustavo Lira - #### A "targeted" SELinux Policy For OpenMoko by Willis Vandevanter, mentored by Stefan Schmidt ## OpenMRS **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** Mozilla Public License 1.1 (MPL) Our world continues to be ravaged by a pandemic of epic proportions, as over 40 million people are infected with or dying from HIV/AIDS -- most (up to 95%) are in developing countries. Prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS on this scale requires efficient information management, which is critical as HIV/AIDS care must increasingly be entrusted to less skilled providers. Whether for lack of time, developers, or money, most HIV/AIDS programs in developing countries manage their information with simple spreadsheets or small, poorly designed databases...if anything at all. To help them, we need to find a way not only to improve management tools, but also to reduce unnecessary, duplicative efforts. As a response to these challenges, OpenMRS formed in 2004 as a open source medical record system framework for developing countries -- a tide which rises all ships. OpenMRS is a multi-institution, nonprofit collaborative led by Regenstrief Institute, Inc. (http://regenstrief.org), a world-renowned leader in medical informatics research, and Partners In Health (http://pih.org), a Boston-based philanthropic organization with a focus on improving the lives of underprivileged people worldwide through health care service and advocacy. These teams nurture a growing worldwide network of individuals and organizations all focused on creating medical record systems and a corresponding implementation network to allow system development self reliance within resource constrained environments. To date, OpenMRS has been implemented in several developing countries, including South Africa, Kenya, Rwanda, Lesotho, Uganda, Tanzania, Haiti, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, and Kerala. This work is supported in part by organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO), the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the Rockefeller Foundation, the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). ### Projects - #### Extend OpenMRS ODA Plugin by Kevin Peters, mentored by Justin Miranda - #### Creating a General Registration Module for OpenMRS Which Will Allow Patient Search \& Registration by Saptarshi Purkayastha, mentored by Brian McKown - #### Advanced medical image viewer by Tor Arne Lye, mentored by Michael Seaton - #### Automated "In-line" OpenMRS Web Application Updates by Upul Godage, mentored by Ben Wolfe - #### OpenMRS Data Synchronization Admin UI by NZEYIMANA ANTOINE, mentored by Maros Cunderlik - #### Address Hierarchy Support by Sri Prasanna. K., mentored by Kayiwa Daniel - #### Extend Patient Matching Analyzers and Heuristics Support by I Nyoman Winardi Ribeka, mentored by Shaun Grannis - #### Patient Note Writer by Mohammad Shahiduzzaman, mentored by Andreas Kollegger - #### Groovy Forms Module by Robert M OConnor, mentored by Burke Mamlin ## OpenNMS **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) We develop a java-based open-source enterprise-grade network management platform. ### Projects - #### Interactive Cell Phone Interface to OpenNMS by Samuel Louvan, mentored by Mathew J Brozowski - #### Finalize OpenNMS Hibernate transition (code name: Summer Hibernation) by Shahzada Hatim Mushtaq, mentored by Johan Edstrom - #### Web Interface Improvements by Charles Rory Forbes, mentored by Robert Kevin Moore - #### Google Maps Integration with OpenNMS by Chris Corcoran, mentored by Jeffrey Allen Gehlbach - #### Separating GUI from Backend by Andrew Nelson, mentored by David S Hustace - #### OpenNMS Live CD by Umair Imam, mentored by Benjamin Reed ## Open Source Applications Foundation **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** Apache License, 2.0 OSAF is a non-profit organization working on Chandler Project, a personal information manager designed for small group collaboration. Chandler consists of a Desktop application, a Server and the Chandler Hub Sharing Service. ### Projects - #### Widget Framework and Search Widget by Avner Shanan, mentored by Travis Vachon ## Ohio Supercomputer Center **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL) The Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) provides supercomputing, networking, research and educational resources to a diverse state and national community, including education, academic research, industry and state government. ### Projects - #### Improved scalability in pbsdcp scatter implementation by Ganesh Vijayakumar, mentored by Troy Alan Baer ## OSCAR **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) OSCAR allows users, regardless of their experience level with a \*nix environment, to install a Beowulf type high performance computing cluster. It also contains everything needed to administer and program this type of HPC cluster. OSCAR's flexible package management system has a rich set of pre-packaged applications and utilities which means you can get up and running without laboriously installing and configuring complex cluster administration and communication packages. It also lets administrators create customized packages for any kind of distributed application or utility, and to distribute those packages from an online package repository, either on or off site. ### Projects - #### NFS Mountpoints in OSCAR by Paul Greidanus, mentored by Geoffroy R. Vallee - #### Implementation and Integration of a Universal Monitoring Framework by Okoye Chuka, mentored by Box Leangsuksun - #### OSCAR V2M Extension by Panyong Zhang, mentored by Geoffroy R. Vallee ## OSGeo - Open Source Geospatial Foundation **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) OSGeo is an incorporated not-for-profit organization serving as an umbrella organization for the Open Source Geospatial community in general, and 14 projects in particular. ### Projects - #### Reimplement And Add Features to Buffer Generation Module in GRASS by Rosen Ivanov Matev, mentored by Wolf Bergenheim - #### Image mosacing/pyramidal geotools plugin by Christian Mueller, mentored by Simone Giannecchini - #### Developing an Automated Update Routine for Mapbender by Siddharth Prakash Singh, mentored by Christoph Baudson - #### OpenJUMP-3D by Christopher DeMars, mentored by Scott Landon Blake - #### Laval University/CamptoCamp 2008 SoC - Geo-BI dashboards by Etienne Dubé, mentored by Thierry Badard - #### 2.5/3D visualization tool for wxPython GRASS GUI by Martin Landa, mentored by Michael Barton - #### GeoWebCache Improvements - REST API by M. Suta, mentored by Arne Kepp - #### Digital Elevation Model for software uDig by Josef Bezdek, mentored by Jan Jezek - #### Mapbender Administrator Modules by Leonard Joseph Kne, mentored by Christoph Baudson - #### GDAL2Tiles Improvement by Petr Pridal, mentored by Howard Butler - #### OL Architect: OpenLayers Map Creation Application Toolkit by Erik Hazzard, mentored by Christopher Schmidt - #### Graphical Modeling for Geographic Data Processing by Leandro Leal Parente, mentored by Scott Landon Blake - #### Home-range analyses in QGIS using R through Python by Anne Ghisla, mentored by Timothy H. Keitt - #### Reimplementation of v.voronoi and v.delaunay modules in the Vector library of GRASS GIS using more efficient algorithms by Martin Pavlovsky, mentored by Paul Kelly ## OSSIM: Open Source Security Information Management **Homepage:**
**Preferred License:** New BSD license OSSIM aims at providing an open source security event/information management system, which is becoming more and more important/useful as the amount of security aware people and logs increases. We're looking for anybody with a twist for computer security and innovative ideas. Our idea list is just a reference, please feel free to provide any others you think might fit in the Security Information and Event Management context. ### Projects - #### Web-based OSSIM Directive Editor by JESUS GARCIA CRESPO, mentored by Pablo Rincón Crespo - #### Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting between Agent, Server and Frameworkd for OSSIM by Brian Lavender, mentored by Dominique Karg - #### Cryptographically Signed Massive Log Storage Framework by John Fredrick Engler, mentored by Alberto Roman - #### Development of OSSIM output filtering modules by João Batista Correa Gomes Moreira, mentored by Juan Manuel Lorenzo Sarría - #### Centralized agent/plugin management by Roberto Gutiérrez Gil, mentored by David Gil ## Oregon State University Open Source Lab (OSU OSL) **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) The Open Source Lab at Oregon State University exists to help accelerate the adoption of open source software across the globe and aid the community that develops and uses it. The OSL's talented team of students and full-time staff do this by focusing on a twofold strategy of software development and hosting some of the world's largest open source projects. ### Projects - #### Unify by Luis Francisco Araujo Camarillo, mentored by Lance James Albertson - #### Code Dependency Analysis by Kurt H Maier, mentored by Jeff Sheltren ## Open Security Foundation (OSVDB) **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) OSVDB is an independent and open source database created by and for the security community. The goal of the project is to provide accurate, detailed, current, and unbiased technical information on security vulnerabilities. More information about the project can be found at http://osvdb.org/about ### Projects - #### Patch Management Portal by Ronny Yabar Aizcorbe, mentored by David Shettler - #### OSVDB Widgets and Gadgets by Marc Augustin, mentored by Chris Newby - #### OSVDB Training Portal Framework by Sergios Pericleous, mentored by Jake Kouns ## hugin/panotools **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) Our organization is a composite of several open source/free software projects: hugin, panotools and enblend/enfuse. We are used to collaborate across timezones and cultures. ### Projects - #### OpenGL hugin preview by James Alastair Legg, mentored by Pablo d'Angelo - #### Automatic Feature Matching for Panoramic Images by Onur Kucuktunc, mentored by Alexandre Jenny - #### Masking in GUI by Fahim Mannan, mentored by Daniel M German - #### Batch Processing by Marko Kuder, mentored by Zoran Mesec - #### Support Vector Machine-based Sky Identification for Enhanced Image Alignment in Panoramic Photography by Timothy Nugent, mentored by Yuval Levy ## Pardus project **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) The participating organization is the Pardus project (http://www.pardus.org.tr). Pardus is a Linux distribution development project under the auspices of TUBITAK UEKAE. TUBITAK (The National Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) UEKAE (National Research Institute for Electronic and Cryptography) is a government-run research institute in Turkey. TUBITAK (http://www.tubitak.gov.tr) is the scientific research funding organization of Turkey - a la NSF, and UEKAE is one of the research institutes of TUBITAK - a la Max Planck. TUBITAK UEKAE is located in Gebze, ca. 50 km from Istanbul, and has offices in Ankara as well. TUBITAK UEKAE has more than 500 researchers working in the fields of information security and cryptography. Pardus project has a triad of goals: Developing Linux distribution for widespread use in Turkey and elsewhere, to have some sound financial sustainability even though the mother organization is a not-for-profit, and finally to develop a FOSS ecosystem in Turkey and elsewhere to innovate in Linux and related technologies. Pardus, the distribution, is the main tool to achieve these goals, and has, in turn, three fundamental requirements: Having full Turkish (i.e. mostly UTF-8) support, ease of use and installation, and a human-centric and task-based design approach (instead of a technology-centric and tool-based one). Pardus project has been launched in Fall 2003 and the technical roadmap has been laid of in Fall 2004. The Pardus developers consist of 15 TUBITAK UEKAE employed core developers (10 full-time) and more than 25 community developers. The product of the project, Pardus, is a free operating system, main pieces of which (and all the code developed within the Pardus project) are distributed under GPL license. ### Projects - #### A Notification Manager Project for Pardus by Mehmet Ozan Kabak, mentored by Gökmen GÖKSEL - #### Pardus CD/DVD/USB Distribution Wizard by turker sezer, mentored by Pinar Yanardag - #### Internet Connection Share Module by Cihangir Besiktas, mentored by Bahadir Kandemir - #### 802.1x support for network manager by İşbaran Akçayır, mentored by Gokcen Eraslan ## Thousand Parsec **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) Thousand Parsec is a framework for turn based space empire building games. Thousand Parsec includes everything you need to play running games, set up your own games and build your own space empire games. Some examples of games which Thousand Parsec draws ideas from are Reach for the Stars, Stars!, VGA Planets, Master of Orion and Galactic Civilizations. These games are often called 4X strategy games, from the main phases found in the games, eXplore, eXpand, eXploit and eXterminate. ### Projects - #### 3D Client for Thousand Parsec by Eugene Tan Jie Ming, mentored by Nathan Kamen Partlan - #### Tigris and Euprhates Ruleset Adaptation by Dustin E. White, mentored by Charles Lee Begg - #### GENETIC CONQUEST: An AI Client for Thousand Parsec (RFTS ruleset) by Victor Ivri, mentored by Krzysztof Sobolewski - #### DroneSec: A simple, one hour game for tpserver-py by Juan Lafont, mentored by Timothy Robert Ansell - #### Creation of a Modified Risk ruleset for the Thousand Parsec C++ server by Ryan Neufeld, mentored by Tyler Shaub - #### Remote Server Configuration Protocol and Single-Player Mode by Aaron Mavrinac, mentored by Jure Repinc - #### AI for RFTS by Vincent Verhoeven, mentored by Brett Nash - #### Schemepy proposal by Chiyuan Zhang, mentored by Timothy Robert Ansell ## The Java PathFinder Team **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** NASA Open Source Agreement 1.3 The Java PathFinder project (JPF) was started at NASA Ames Research Center in 1999. JPF is a research JVM (implemented in Java) that runs as a "software model checker"; It stores program states and checks properties, backtracking and re-scheduling threads as necessary to cover all program executions. JPF has won several awards, inside and outside of NASA. JPF was open sourced in April 2005 with the mainline development hosted on Sourceforge. The primary goal of open sourcing JPF was to enable students to contribute and take their code with them after their summer internships - and begin to build a development community. So far, we have received contributions from students at SUNY Stonybrook, Kansas State, MIT, CMU, U. Mass, Georgia Tech, UC Santa Barbara, University of Nebraska, INRIA, Toronto, Masaryk University and UIUC. The primary industrial user of JPF is Fujitsu Labs. The Java PathFinder Team is comprised of the JPF research team at NASA Ames, several past NASA team members who have moved to industry, and a number of students who are using JPF in their graduate studies. Contact us at javapathfinder-devel@lists.sourceforge.net. ### Projects - #### Extend JPF Symbolic Execution Framework to Handle Arrays and Data Structures by Suzette Jean Person, mentored by Corina Pasareanu - #### Generate method sequences for testing in Java Pathfinder by Neha Shyam Rungta, mentored by Willem visser - #### Generating Method Sequences for Testing by Mithun Puthige Acharya, mentored by Corina Pasareanu - #### java.util.concurrent models in JPF by Mateusz Ujma, mentored by Darko Marinov - #### Integration of JavaPathfinder into Eclipse by Sandro Badame, mentored by Peter C. Mehlitz - #### Efficient and precise modeling of concurrent and distributed applications by Taehoon Lee, mentored by John Penix - #### JPF Extension to Support Parameterized Unit Test by Huinan Zhang, mentored by Tao Xie - #### Visualization for the Statechart Model Checking Extension by Carl Albach, mentored by David Bushnell - #### Develop an interface layer that JPF extensions can use for querying and manipulating program objects by Cato Pakusch, mentored by Darko Marinov ## Pentaho **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** Mozilla Public License 1.1 (MPL) Pentaho is an open source alternative for business intelligence (BI). Pentaho Open BI Suite provides comprehensive reporting, OLAP analysis, dashboards, data integration, data mining and a BI platform that integrates these functions. Since starting the Pentaho BI Platform project 4 years ago, four other established open source projects have joined Pentaho. They are Mondrian http://sourceforge.net/projects/mondrian, JFreeReport http://sourceforge.net/projects/jfreereport, Kettle http://kettle.pentaho.org/ and WEKA http://sourceforge.net/projects/weka ### Projects - #### Adding Bayesian multiple imputation and latent semantic analysis features to WEKA by Amri Napolitano, mentored by Mark Andrew Hall - #### Halogen - Web based OLAP viewer by Luiz Felipe de Souza Gomes, mentored by William Edward Seyler - #### SWT based UI for the exports and print-preview in Pentaho reporting classic-engine by Baochuan Lu, mentored by Thomas Morgner - #### JBoss Rules (Drools) component by Alessio Tomasino, mentored by James Dixon ## The Perl Foundation **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** Artistic license The Perl Foundation is dedicated to the advancement of the Perl programming language through open discussion, collaboration, design, and code. The Perl Foundation is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization based in Holland, Michigan. Specifically for GSoC, The Perl Foundation will be assisting several large sub-communities on behalf of the overall Perl community. See the following url for more information. http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?gsoc2008 ### Projects - #### Flesh out the Perl 6 Test Suite by Adrian Kreher, mentored by Moritz Lenz - #### wxCPANPLUS by Samuel Tyler, mentored by Herbert Breunung - #### Native Call Interface Signatures and Stubs Generation for Parrot by Kevin Tew, mentored by jerry gay - #### Incremental Tricolor Garbage Collector by Andrew Whitworth, mentored by chromatic - #### Math::GSL by Thierry Moisan, mentored by Jonathan Leto ## PHP **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** PHP License Devoted to developing PHP. ### Projects - #### PHP Optimizer by Samuel Graham Kelly IV, mentored by Fredericus G Rethans - #### Replace auto\* with CMake by Alejandro Leiva Rojas, mentored by Pierre A. Joye - #### gsoc:2008 - XDebug by Chung-Yang Lee, mentored by David Coallier - #### PHP Bindings for Cairo by Akshat Gupta, mentored by Anant Narayanan - #### Algorithm Optimizations by Michal Dziemianko, mentored by Scott MacVicar - #### PECL, Website Improvements by Barry Carlyon, mentored by Helgi Þormar Þorbjörnsson - #### Implement Unicode into PHP 6 by Henrique do Nascimento Angelo, mentored by Scott MacVicar - #### PhD (PHP-based Docbook Renderer) Project by Rudy Nappee, mentored by Hannes Magnusson ## Pidgin **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) Pidgin is a multi-protocol instant messaging client that allows you to use all of your IM accounts at once. We're compatible with MSN, AIM, Yahoo!, Google Talk, XMPP, and other IM services. We also produce a console-based instant messaging client called Finch. Both clients are based on our libpurple library, which does the grunt work of connecting to the IM networks. The Adium instant messaging program on OS X also utilizes this library. ### Projects - #### YAVVA - Yet Another Voice \& Video Application by Michael Ruprecht, mentored by Sean Egan - #### Master password support for pidgin by Vivien Bernet-Rollande, mentored by Richard Laager - #### Finch spell checking, window manager, and libgnt enhancements by Mark Schneider, mentored by Sadrul Habib Chowdhury - #### Improving Yahoo! Implementation of libpurple by Sulabh Mahajan, mentored by Mark Doliner - #### Pidgin Theme and Interface Improvements by Justin Rodriguez, mentored by Gary Kramlich - #### Improving XMPP support for Entity Capabilities and BOSH in libpurple by Tobias Markmann, mentored by Etan Reisner ## Plazi Verein **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** New BSD license Plazi Verein is an international association devoted to the development and promotion of open and persistent access to the data and literature describing species. To this end we have developed an xml schema, TaxonX (http://plazi.org/?q=node/10), for the markup of species descriptions to make the rich data in them accessible for analysis, retrieval, and data mining. We have also developed an application, GoldenGate (http://plazi.org/?q=GoldenGATE) which employs the GATE framework which serves as an "Annotation Editor" and applies NLP techniques to enable semi-automated markup of the data of interest in textual data. ### Projects - #### Semi-Automatic parsing of geographic locations and georeferencing by Aditya Manthramurthy, mentored by Robert A. Morris - #### Bibliographic Reference Parsing by Deepank Gupta, mentored by Terence H. Catapano ## PlanetMath.org, Ltd. **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** MIT/X11, FDL, and GPL variously. A collaborative mathematics "encyclopedia", and the software that powers it (Noosphere). We endeavor to grow our pilot project (PlanetMath) and make it easier for others to create similar collaborative mathematical sciences learning resources on the web. ### Projects - #### NNexus: An Automatic Linker for Collaborative Web-based Corpora by James Gardner, mentored by Aaron Krowne - #### Improving rating system and users ranking in PlanetMath.org by Pawel Jurczyk, mentored by Aaron Krowne ## Plone Foundation **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) The Plone Foundation will celebrate its fourth birthday around the time students start coding for this year's SoC. It exists to promote Plone, an open source Content Management System based on Zope 2. Plone has existed since 1999 when the project was founded by Alexander Limi, Alan Runyan and Vidar Andersen. The foundation is adminstered by the foundation board which is elected by the foundation membership. Foundation membership represents exceptional contribution to the community and is subject to approval of an application, so far over 100 have been accepted. The community has had an annual conference since 2003 which has taken place in New Orleans, Vienna (twice), Seattle and Naples. The Naples conference was attended by approximately 350 members of the community; a similar figure to the previous conference in Seattle. Local user groups exist in many cities, some organising symposia; one such event is currently underway. In addition, over 800 projects are versioned in our community SVN repository, the collective and there are more than 1000 showcase websites and almost 250 companies specialising in Plone development listed on Plone.net. ### Projects - #### Component Registry Introspector and Zope 2 / Plone integration. by Martin Lundwall, mentored by Lennart Regebro - #### Buildout Builder - An automated buildout configuration system. by Kenneth Miller, mentored by Raphael Ritz - #### Non-AT membrane, a new plone authentication scheme and ldap by Florian Friesdorf, mentored by Jens W. Klein - #### Plone Batch Editing by Javier Mansilla, mentored by Alexander Limi ## PostgreSQL project **Homepage:** [www.postgresql.org](http://www.postgresql.org) **Preferred License:** New BSD license PostgreSQL is the most advanced open source database management system, with a set of features extending far beyond SQL and ACID transactions to pluggable procedural languages, XML, custom aggregates and more. PostgreSQL scales to thousands of users and terabytes of data. It is written entirely in well-documented C, with some optional components in other languages. PostgreSQL is also unincorporated global development community which works on the PostgreSQL object-relational database and tools related to it. We are community-owned and not the product of any one company. Our developers and mentors consist mostly of hardcore database hackers, including corporate programmers, academics and independent database enthusiasts. All development of PostgreSQL is done online on public mailing lists and public CVS. ### Projects - #### Text search selectivity functions for PostgreSQL. by Jan Urbański, mentored by Heikki Linnakangas - #### pgScript - Scripting language for pgAdmin by Mickael Deloison, mentored by Magnus Hagander - #### improving performance of hash index by Xiao Meng(孟啸), mentored by Jonah H. Harris - #### Graphical SQL Query Builder Improvement for pgAdmin III by Luis Alberto Ochoa Paz, mentored by Dave Page - #### Collation implementation at database level in PostgreSQL by Radek Strnad, mentored by Zdenek Kotala ## Zikula Application Framework **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL) Zikula is an Open Source Web Application Framework written in the popular web scripting language PHP. It is free to download and use, and is supported by a large community of many thousands of people across the globe. There are over 500,000 websites using the Zikula Framework on the web today. The Zikula Software Foundation was established in 2005 to ensure the longevity of the project, and is a non profit organization that assists the project in its long term strategic goals. The members of the Foundation's board are all volunteers and members of the project. Zikula itself is managed day to day by a five person steering committee, elected by the members of the Software Foundation. The core code is developed by around twenty developers, though there are many other regular contributors who submit patches and changes both small and large to the core code and these are often incorporated into the next release. The project's biggest advantage is the mass of third party developments available. Much like other web application frameworks, the project lives and dies by the third party developments which are available, and these are hundreds for Zikula, from basic content modules to forums and download management scripts. These range from the complicated to the simplistic, and the system can be customized to an individual user's need depending on the type of website they are trying to create. ### Projects - #### Improved search engine capabilities by Daniel Byrd, mentored by Simon Birtwistle - #### Extension and Modification of Categories System by John William Pritchard, mentored by Robert Gasch ## Python Software Foundation **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** Apache License, 2.0 The Python Software Foundation (PSF) is a non-profit membership organization devoted to advancing open source technology related to the Python programming language. The mission of the Python Software Foundation is to promote, protect, and advance the Python programming language, and to support and facilitate the growth of the international community of Python programmers. ### Projects - #### Python Memory Profiler by Robert Schuppenies, mentored by Martin v. Löwis - #### NumPy test framework enhancement by Alan McIntyre, mentored by Kenneth Jarrod Millman - #### Supporting Python 2.5 features in PyPy by Bruno Gola, mentored by Carl Friedrich Bolz - #### 3D Manipulation of Objects Using the Wii Remote. by Chris Nicholls, mentored by Christian James Muise - #### Carcode project enhancements by Carlos Daniel Ruvalcaba Valenzuela, mentored by Toby Donaldson - #### Developing Cython for Easy NumPy Integration by Dag Sverre Seljebotn, mentored by Robert Bradshaw - #### Sandboxing the tinypy interpreter by Denis Kasak, mentored by Philip Hassey - #### Python plugin for Web-CAT by Henig Eran, mentored by Karen Reid - #### MoinMoin wiki syntax integration in Crunchy by Florian Birée, mentored by Andre Roberge - #### Bringing Ttk to Tkinter by Guilherme Henrique Polo Goncalves, mentored by Fredrik Lundh - #### Improving "Interact" Functionality of SAGE Notebook by Igor Tolkov, mentored by William Stein - #### Dependency Parsing in the NLTK by Jason Narad, mentored by Sebastian Riedel - #### Developing a Python Ensembl API using a graph-based database framework by Qing (Jenny) Qian, mentored by Robert Kirkpatrick - #### pygame tests - preparation for py3k, pypy, jython, tinypy, pygame running on flash VM. by Nicholas Dudfield, mentored by Rene Dudfield - #### Performance Improvements for 2to3 Tool by Nicholas W Edds, mentored by Collin Winter - #### Markdown improvments by Artem Yunusov, mentored by Yuri Takhteyev - #### DrProject web administration interface by Qiyu Zhu, mentored by Blake Winton - #### The Jython compiler by Tobias Ivarsson, mentored by James Edward Baker - #### OLPC Project Automated Testing by Zach Riggle, mentored by Grig Gheorghiu - #### Clone Digger: automatic refactoring, more elegant difference highligthing and faster processing of simple clones by Anatoly Zapadinsky, mentored by Peter Bulychev - #### Crunchy: Completing test coverage , session logging , and doc-test improvement by Tao Fei, mentored by Johannes Woolard - #### Improvement of Zope support on Jython by Georgy Berdyshev, mentored by Frank Joseph Wierzbicki - #### Moving OpenOpt Forward by Dmitrey Kroshko, mentored by Alan G Isaac - #### SymPy: robust high-precision numerical evaluation by Fredrik Johansson, mentored by Ondrej Certik - #### Django on Jython: Supporting Python Web App Frameworks on the JVM by Leonardo Humberto Soto Munoz, mentored by James Edward Baker - #### urilib for Python 2.6 and Python 3.0 by O. R . Senthil Kumaran, mentored by Facundo Batista - #### pygr: examples, documentation, and datasets by Rachel McCreary, mentored by Charles Titus Brown - #### Debug(fg) and Tab-completion features for Supervisor by Siddhant Goel, mentored by Chris McDonough - #### Natural language generator based on FUF/SURGE for NLTK by Petro Verkhogliad, mentored by Robert Dale - #### A 2D Realtime Physics Engine for Pygame by Zhang Fan, mentored by Marcus von Appen ## Portland State University **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) We are the open source development team at Portland State University. We develop a lot of different kinds of open source project: everything from the world's most advanced low-cost amateur rockets and law-enforcement communication systems to web toolkits and programming environments. We specialize in open source projects with an academic component, and those that are off the beaten path. We think we've been an academic leader in the R\&D side of free and open source software. For example, the components of the X Window System developed by PSU students, faculty and friends touch users of the free desktop every day. Our location in Portland, Oregon gives us access to a large pool of top-quality open source developers, and they have been very good to us in helping to mentor our students. For Summer of Code, we are looking for developers in Portland and from around the globe who are excited about an open source project that has an academic bent, or that doesn't fit well with any other Summer of Code organization. ### Projects - #### \[SPARSE\] A C code "linker" based on sparse, required to build an advanced static analyser. by Alexey Zaytsev, mentored by Joshua Triplett - #### CocoaBugs: Novel, Usable, Beautiful Artificial Life Framework by Devin Chalmers, mentored by David Percy - #### Open Doors by Loren Davis, mentored by Greg Kroah Hartman - #### The PostgreSQL Optimizer Exposed by Thomas West Raney, mentored by Len Shapiro - #### Revamping Lush's Memory Management by Ralf Juengling, mentored by Keith Packard - #### A System for Patent Categorization and Analysis by Adam Bresee, mentored by Len Shapiro ## Ptolemy Project, University of California, Berkeley **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** New BSD license The Ptolemy project studies modeling, simulation, and design of concurrent, real-time, embedded systems. The focus is on assembly of concurrent components. The key underlying principle in the project is the use of well-defined models of computation that govern the interaction between components. A major problem area being addressed is the use of heterogeneous mixtures of models of computation. A software system called Ptolemy II is being constructed in Java. Ptolemy II differs from other commonly used graphical block-diagram languages in that they typically support only one model of computation. In addition, Ptolemy II is a more open architecture in that its infrastructure is open source, and the interfaces to the core mechanisms in the software are published and documented. The Ptolemy project has been under development in Java since 1997.The work is conducted in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences of the University of California at Berkeley. Currently, full-time members of the project include 1 faculty member, 3 systems/software managers, 5 postdoctoral/visiting scholars, 11 grad students, 2 visitors, 2 undergrad students (details at http://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/people/main.htm ). Our contributors include people from industry, universities, research institutions and other public projects (details at http://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/archive/links.htm ). We have a long collaboration with the Kepler project (http://www.kepler-project.org), an open-source scientific workflow system that uses Ptolemy as its core. ### Projects - #### A time-triggered domain in Ptides by Patricia Derler, mentored by Christopher Xavier Brooks - #### Multi-core/Multi-host Discrete-Event Simulator for Ptolemy by Michael Craig, mentored by Slobodan Matic - #### An algorithmic trading application using Ptolemy by Ramnik Arora, mentored by Slobodan Matic - #### Statical and statistical WCET analysis on automatic generated C programs by Bas Burgers, mentored by Hiren D. Patel ## R Foundation for Statistical Computing **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) The R Foundation is a not for profit organization working in the public interest. It has been founded by the members of the R Development Core Team in order to \* Provide support for the R project and other innovations in statistical computing. We believe that R has become a mature and valuable tool and we would like to ensure its continued development and the development of future innovations in software for statistical and computational research. \* Provide a reference point for individuals, instititutions or commercial enterprises that want to support or interact with the R development community. \* Hold and administer the copyright of R software and documentation. R is an official part of the Free Software Foundation's GNU project, and the R Foundation has similar goals to other open source software foundations like the Apache Foundation or the GNOME Foundation. Among the goals of the R Foundation are the support of continued development of R, the exploration of new methodology, teaching and training of statistical computing and the organization of meetings and conferences with a statistical computing orientation. ### Projects - #### Finite Mixture Models for Large Data Sets by Arijit Das, mentored by Friedrich Leisch - #### Roxygen documentation system for R by Peter Danenberg, mentored by Manuel J. A. Eugster - #### lme4: Adaptive Gauss-Hermite quadrature method for mixed-effects models by Bin Dai, mentored by Douglas M. Bates - #### Connecting R and PostgreSQL using DBI by Sameer Kumar Prayaga, mentored by Dirk Eddelbuettel ## Rockbox **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) The Rockbox project started in december 2001 and in it we develop a complete portable music player firmware replacement - including operating system, GUI and application suite. Rockbox runs on a wide range of support platforms including players from Archos, Apple (ipod), iriver, iAudio, Toshiba and SanDisk. We're 100% spare time contributors. ### Projects - #### Accessibility and localization improvements for Rockbox by Thomas Ross, mentored by Daniel Stenberg - #### WPS/Theme Editor by Rostislav Chekan, mentored by Dominik Wenger ## RTEMS Project **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) The RTEMS Project is the umbrella term used to describe the collection of individuals, companies, universities, and research institutions that collectively maintain and enhance the RTEMS software base. The RTEMS Project is lead by a Steering Committee (http://www.rtems.org/wiki/index.php/Steering_Committee/) that collectively represents the interests of the community and provides stewardship for the code base. RTEMS (Real-Time Executive for Multiprocessor Systems) is a free real-time operating system designed for deeply embedded systems. It is a free open source solution that supports multi-processor systems and has been ported to over a dozen CPU architectures and includes support for over 100 boards. RTEMS is designed to support applications with the most stringent real-time requirements while being compatible with open standards such as POSIX. RTEMS includes optional functional features such as TCP/IP and various file systems while still offering minimum executable sizes under 32 KB in useful configurations. Many RTEMS developers are active in the free software community and contribute to various projects including binutils, gcc, newlib, and gdb. The RTEMS Maintainer is also a member of the GCC Steering Committee. RTEMS development is done in a cross-compilation fashion. The RTEMS Project maintains an APT/Yum Repository with RPMs for various i386 and x86_64 GNU/Linux distributions including Fedora, RHEL, CentOS, and SUSE. In addition, MS-Windows is supported via MinGW hosted toolsets. RTEMS tools are included in various BSD ports collection. We have recently put together some flyers for projects that use RTEMS. Please visit http://www.rtems.org/flyers.html and see how a relatively unknown piece of open source software is such an important part of the scientific community. Please note that GPL+exception was not an option for the license category. Most of RTEMS uses a GPL+linking exception. ### Projects - #### Proposal for Runtime Tracing from Alan by Sheng Wang, mentored by Christopher Johns - #### TinyRTEMS by Miao Yan, mentored by Ray, Xu - #### RTEMS Tool Support on Debian by Ryan James Harrison, mentored by Alain Schaefer ## Ruby Central **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** Apache License, 2.0 Ruby Central organizes national and international Ruby related activities. We're involved in everything from the international Ruby and Rails conferences, helping organize regional Ruby conferences, and supporting ongoing development projects (like RubyForge and the GSoC). ### Projects - #### Specs for Ruby Standard Libraries by Federico Builes, mentored by Vladimir Sizikov - #### A Ruby library implementing various data structures and algorithms with guaranteed complexities by Kanwei Li, mentored by Austin Ziegler - #### Enhance Ruby's CGI implementation by Ralph Edge, mentored by Pratik Naik - #### Improve Core and Standard Library Integration in Rubinius by Gianluigi Spagnuolo, mentored by Johnathon Hornbeck - #### Improve Standard Library Specs by Arthur Schreiber, mentored by Benjamin Joseph Bleything - #### Pure Ruby YAML 1.1 Processor by Long Sun, mentored by Xueyong Zhi - #### DocBox: A Wiki frontend to Documentation by Ian Ownbey, mentored by Jeremy McAnally - #### Rails Thread Safety by Joshua Peek, mentored by Michael Alan Koziarski ## Sahana **Homepage:**
**Preferred License:** GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL) Sahana is a Free and Open Source Disaster Management system. It is a web based collaboration tool that addresses the common coordination problems during a disaster from finding missing people, managing aid, managing volunteers, tracking camps effectively between Government groups, the civil society (NGOs) and the victims themselves. ### Projects - #### Disease Surveillance Module by Viraj Edirisinghe, mentored by Roshan Hashantha Hewapathirana - #### SAHANA Instant Messaging (chat) Module by R.G.Nishantha Pradeep Karunadasa, mentored by Leevanage Pium Prabath Kumarasinghe - #### SAHANA SITUATION MAPPING EXPANSION by Richard Smith, mentored by David Bitner - #### Develop \& Integrate an API enabling 2 way communication to Sahana core via SMS by Ajay Kumar, mentored by Fran Boon - #### Sahana Social Networking System by Harsha Halgaswatta, mentored by Roshan Hashantha Hewapathirana - #### Data mining and Visualization library by W.M. Miyuru Daminda Wanninayaka, mentored by Ravith Botejue - #### Disaster Preparedness Module by chamara caldera, mentored by Ravindra De Silva ## Sakai Foundation and IMS Global Learning Consortium **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** We use the ECL 2.0, which is a minor variant of Apache 2. It is OSI certified. Sakai is an Open Source Collaboration and Learning Environment which is in Enterprise use at 200 Universities around the world with over a million users who use Sakai daily in their teaching and learning. The Sakai Foundation coordinates the activities of the Sakai open source community and provides shared resources to support the Sakai community activities. IMS GLC is a global, nonprofit, member association that provides leadership in shaping and growing the learning and educational technology industries through collaborative support of standards, innovation, best practice and recognition of superior learning impact. IMS standards such as IMS Content Packaging, IMS Question and Test Interchange, IMS Common Cartridge, IMS Learning Design, and IMS Learning Tools Interoperability form the backbone of data and functionality interchange between learning management systems from multiple vendors. The Sakai Foundation is the lead sponsor as Sakai has the open source infrastructure and processes needed to support this effort. The IMS Global Learning Consortium is providing access to the IMS LTI standards to this effort while the standards are in development. ### Projects - #### An IMS LTI Producer for Sakai by Katherine Edwards, mentored by Charles Russell Severance - #### Build IMS LTI Producer for Moodle by Jordi Piguillem Poch, mentored by Charles Russell Severance ## Samba **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) Samba is an Open Source/Free Software suite that has, since 1992, provided file and print services to all manner of SMB/CIFS clients, including the numerous versions of Microsoft Windows operating systems. Samba is freely available under the GNU General Public License. ### Projects - #### Compression in the ndr layer by Matthieu Suiche, mentored by Stefan Metzmacher ## SCons next-generation build system **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** MIT license SCons is a cross-platform, next-generation build tool. Unlike most other build tools that invent their own mini-language or wedge a scripting language onto some other configuration file syntax, SCons configuration files are actually Python scripts. The flexibility of Python scripting makes it possible to solve complicated build problems in surprisingly small amounts of maintainable code. Its portability (the only requirement is Python 1.5.2 or later), cross-platform features (extensive support for languages and compilers), and reliability (MD5 file signatures, cache) make it an incomparable tool not only for build masters but also for many free software projects. SCons has been an active project since its founding in 2001. SCons now averages about 7000 downloads per month and has active user and development mailing lists with membership of approximately 450 and 150, respectively, and average monthly traffic of 275 and 100 messages, respectively. The SCons Foundation was organized in 2003 to hold the copyrights of the SCons source code, and to provide a legal entity for any other organizational necessities (e.g., receiving donations). The Foundation is a Delaware non-profit corporation, but does not currently have 501(c)(3) status. ### Projects - #### Add Memory Introspection Facility by Ludwig Hähne, mentored by J. Gregory Noel - #### Comments Stripping Framework and Python Binary Builder for SCons by Mateusz Piotr Gruca, mentored by Gary Oberbrunner ## Scribus Team **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) The Scribus Team consists of a relatively small, but dedicated core of developers along with a larger circle of individual contributors located on every continent who work together to develop Scribus - an Open Source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/UNIX, MacOS X, OS/2 and Windows desktops with a combination of "press-ready" output and new approaches to page layout. Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, color separations, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation. In the Linux/UNIX and OS/2 worlds Scribus is the Open Source Desktop Publishing Software of choice. ### Projects - #### ScripterNG - a new scripting plug-in for Scribus by Henning Schroeder, mentored by p linnell - #### UniConvertor and GraphicsMagick integration by Hermann Kraus, mentored by Jean Ghali - #### Scribus Picture Browser by Markus Durst, mentored by GEMY Cedric ## ScummVM **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) ScummVM is a collection of Virtual Machines which allow a variety of commercially available graphical point-and-click adventure games to run on modern hardware, often with improved features. Supported games include favorites such as Monkey Island, Simon the Sorcerer, Space Quest, and many more. To this end, the Virtual Machines (called Engines) are complete reimplementations of each supported game engine in a structured fashion using the C++ language. The development team works either by reverse engineering game executables (usually with the permission of creators of the game), or by using the original source code of the games provided by the creators. The number of engines is constantly growing thanks to a very agile and diversified development team. The VM approach followed by ScummVM results in efficient code, which has been ported to numerous Operating Systems. Besides running on all mainstream desktop environments, namely Windows, Mac OS X and most Unix variants (Linux, \*BSD, Solaris), ScummVM works on popular game consoles (Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable and more), smart phones and PDAs (WinCE, PalmOS, iPhone or Symbian based), and even on many not-so-mainstream systems (like BeOS, AmigaOS or OS/2). ScummVM has a highly productive team of about 35 currently active developers (out of an all-time pool of over 60), who work together on a codebase almost 650,000 lines of code. In addition we have many non-developer contributors, and a huge and highly active community. ScummVM is among the top ranking projects hosted on sourceforge.net with well over 100,000 monthly downloads and \~10 million project web hits per month. ### Projects - #### Return to Launcher and Global Main Menu / Savestate Management by Christopher Page, mentored by Max Horn - #### FreeSCI Engine by Sami Zerrade, mentored by Jordi Vilalta Prat - #### Graphical User Interface overhaul for ScummVM by Vicent Pere Marti Guardiola, mentored by Johannes Schickel - #### Virtual Keyboard and Keymapper by Stephen Kennedy, mentored by Joost Peters - #### Adding support for Operation Stealth by Kari Antero Salminen, mentored by Yevgen Sandulenko ## Simple DirectMedia Layer **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL) The SDL library is an open source cross-platform game and multimedia application SDK. It has been widely used to create commercial and open source games and media applications. ### Projects - #### Force Feedback for SDL by Edgar Simo, mentored by Ryan C. Gordon - #### Audio Ideas - Resampling and Pitch Shifting by Aaron Wishnick, mentored by Ryan C. Gordon - #### Bring SDL to iPhone and iPod Touch by Holmes Futrell, mentored by Sam Lantinga - #### Port SDL 1.3 to the Nintendo DS, add touch input API by Darren Alton, mentored by Sam Lantinga - #### Refresh pointing device support by Szymon Wilczek, mentored by Ryan C. Gordon ## The Software Freedom Conservancy **Homepage:**
**Preferred License:** Affero General Public License The Software Freedom Conservancy is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit charity based in the United States; it was founded in March 2006. Our primary goal is to provide stewardship and corporate sponsorship for Free and and Open Source Software (FOSS) projects. ### Projects - #### Modernizing stet with JavaScript by Matthew Harrison, mentored by Joshua Gay - #### Perl to Python: Porting an IRC based timekeeping system by Landon Fowles, mentored by Bradley M. Kuhn ## Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** Apache License, 2.0 The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (SIAI) is a non-profit organization founded in 2000 to develop safe artificial intelligence software, and to raise awareness of both the dangers and potential benefits of artificial general intelligence technologies. The SIAI sponsors numerous research projects, both theoretical and applied, and has recently begun to structure applied research under the umbrella of OpenCog, the Open Cognition Project. OpenCog is software for the collaborative development of safe and beneficial Artificial General Intelligence, and aims to provide research scientists and software developers with a common platform to build and share artificial intelligence programs. ### Projects - #### OpenSim for OpenCog by Kino High Coursey, mentored by Andre Luiz de Senna - #### Implementing a SAT/SMT Based Link Grammar Parser by Filip Marić, mentored by Predrag Janicic - #### Bayesian and Causal Networks Inference using Indefinite Probabilities by Cesar Augusto Cavalheiro Marcondes, mentored by Joel Peter William Pitt - #### OpenBiomind-GUI by Bhavesh Sanghvi, mentored by Murilo Saraiva de Queiroz - #### MOSES: the Pleasure Algorithm by Alesis Novik, mentored by Nil Geisweiller - #### Graph Algorithms for HyperGraphDB by Guo Junfei, mentored by Ben Goertzel - #### Improved MOSES by ChenShuo, mentored by Moshe Looks - #### RelEx Web Crawler and HypergraphDB Manager by Rich Jones, mentored by David Hart - #### Distributed HipergraphDB Version by Costa Ciprian, mentored by Borislav Iordanov - #### Recursive Feature Selection for Enhancing Genetic Disease Prediction by Paul Cao, mentored by Lucio de Souza Coelho ## SIP Communicator **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** Apache License, 2.0 SIP Communicator is an audio/video Internet phone and instant messenger written in Java. It supports some of the most popular instant messaging and telephony protocols such as SIP, Jabber (and hence GoogleTalk), AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo! Messenger, Apple Bonjour, IRC and soon others like IAX. The development of SIP Communicator started out at the Louis Pasteur University in Strasbourg, France (http://www-ulp.u-strasbg.fr) but has grown to include members and contributors from (alphabetically) Brazil, Bulgaria, Cameroon, China, France, Estonia, India, Germany, Japan, Romania, Spain, UK, USA, and others. Some of these contributors have joined the project after successfully participating in the 2007 edition of Google Summer of Code. SIP Communicator is based on the OSGi (http://osgi.org) architecture using the Felix implementation from Apache. This makes it very extensible and particularly developer friendly. Needless to say SIP Communicator is completely Open Source / Free Software, and is freely available under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License. ### Projects - #### Performance profiling and optimizations. by Vladimir Shkarupelov, mentored by Benoit Pradelle - #### Part 1: Proposal Overview \& Spell Checker by Damian Johnson, mentored by Yana Stamcheva - #### Extending and integrating the FMJ framework in SIP Communicator by Martin Harvan, mentored by Kenneth Arthur Larson - #### Support for LDAP by SEBASTIEN MAZY, mentored by Vincent Lucas - #### Facebook Support Plugin for SIP Communicator by Dai Zhiwei, mentored by Lubomir Metodiev Marinov - #### File Transfer for SIP-communicator by Anthony Schmitt, mentored by Ulrich Norbisrath - #### Group chat for MSN, ICQ and Yahoo protocols by Rupert Burchardi, mentored by Yana Stamcheva - #### Implementation of encryption key sharing algorithms by Emanuel Onica, mentored by Romain Kuntz - #### SC : Profile Manager by ROTH Damien, mentored by Emil Ivov - #### HTTP/SOCKS Proxy Support in SIP Communicator by Atul Aggarwal, mentored by Pavel Tankov - #### Plugin management by Mathieu Plourde, mentored by CRISTINA TABACARU - #### File Transfer for SIP (Support for MSRP) by João Antunes, mentored by Emil Ivov - #### Implementing NAT traversal with ICE on top of Stun4J by Chaminda Namal Senarathne, mentored by Sébastien VINCENT - #### MySpaceIM support by Maciej Wiercinski, mentored by Benoit Pradelle ## The Squeak Project **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** MIT license The Squeak Project is an organization dedicated to support Squeak's development. Squeak is a Smalltalk dialect and a programming environment created by many of the original Smalltalk authors. Its first edition was released in 1996, and it's currently at version 3.9, with a 3.10 version under development. It has spawned many related projects, both non-commercial (such as Squeakland http://www.squeakland.org/, Croquet http://www.croquetproject.org/, Scratch http://scratch.mit.edu/, Sophie http://sophieproject.org/) and commercial (Plopp http://planet-plopp.com/, DabbleDB http://www.dabbledb.com, CMSBox http://www.cmsbox.ch/). It's also the main developer platform for the Seaside web framework. The Squeak Project takes care of all the bureaucratic tasks for the Squeak community (providing funding for server and connectivity costs, etc.); all the other tasks and problems, including technical ones, are handled by the community. By partecipating as the Squeak Project, instead of simply Squeak as we did in the 2007 edition of the GSoC, we aim to muster a larger involvement from the various communities related to Squeak. The Squeak Project will be joining the Software Freedom Conservancy in the near future. ### Projects - #### Safarà: an Extensible Code Editor for Squeak by Luigi Panzeri, mentored by Lukas Renggli - #### Squeak IRC bot framework by Francois Stephany, mentored by Kenneth Lee Causey - #### Squeak GTK Support by Gwenaël Casaccio, mentored by Stéphane Ducasse - #### freeCAD: 3D CAD with Motion Simulation Port to Croquet by Phua Khai Fong, mentored by Aik-Siong Koh - #### OpenNARS port to Squeak using Seaside by Cédrick Béler, mentored by Klaus D. Witzel ## OpenStreetMap **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** Apache License, 2.0 "OpenStreetMap is a project aimed squarely at creating and providing free geographic data such as street maps to anyone who wants them. The project was started because most maps you think of as free actually have legal or technical restrictions on their use, holding back people from using them in creative, productive or unexpected ways." Contributors to OpenStreetMap take handheld GPS devices with them on journeys, or go out specially to record GPS tracks. They record street names, village names and other features using notebooks, digital cameras, and voice-recorders. Back at the computer, contributors upload those GPS logs showing where they travelled, and trace-out the roads on OpenStreetMap's collaborative database. Using their notes, contributors add the street names, information such as the type of road or path, and the connections between roads. That data is then processed to produce detailed street-level maps, which can be published freely on sites such as Wikipedia, used to create handheld or in-car navigation devices, or printed and copied without restriction. ### Projects - #### Internationalization setup for OSM web pages and map tiles by Arindam Ghosh, mentored by Mikel Eruch Maron - #### Improved GPS workflow In Java Open Street Map Editor or JOSM by Subhodip Biswas, mentored by Raphael Mack - #### Osmarender's WYSIWYG GUI frontend: an hybrid web/standalone-user/developer oriented architecture approach by Mario Ferraro, mentored by Frederik Ramm - #### Route altitude profile based on NASA SRTM data. by Sjors Provoost, mentored by Artem Dudarev ## Subclipse **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** Eclipse Public License Subclipse is an open-source (EPL) provider of Subversion integration with the Eclipse IDE. Subclipse was the original Subversion team integration with Eclipse and has a long history as a successful open source project. We have a diverse community that includes regular contributors with several other open source projects, such as Subversion, Eclipse and Eclipse Mylyn. ### Projects - #### Show file history as revision graph by Alberto Gimeno, mentored by Mark Phippard ## openSUSE **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** Apache License, 2.0 openSUSE is a community distribution sponsored by Novell to promote the use of Linux everywhere. openSUSE delivers everything that Linux developers and enthusiasts need to get started with Linux. Hosted at opensuse.org, the project features easy access to builds and releases. It also offers extensive community development programs for open access to the development process used to create SUSE Linux. ### Projects - #### LTSP GUI Management for openSuse by Jan Weber, mentored by Jigish Gohil - #### Interactive Crash Analysis by Nikolay Derkach, mentored by Jan Blunck - #### Face Based Authentication by Rohan Anil, mentored by Alex Lau Chun Yin - #### Grub4ext4: enable ext4 file system as boot partition by PengTao, mentored by Coly Li - #### New approach for (RPM) packages creation by Andrei Oprisan, mentored by Stanislav Brabec - #### Libzypp Download Failover by Gerard Farras i Ballabriga, mentored by Peter Poeml - #### Migration asistent reloaded by Peter Libic, mentored by Pavol Rusnak - #### BuildService \<-\> Eclipse Integration by long hong, mentored by Michal Marek ## Subversion **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** Apache License, 2.0 We maintain and develop Subversion, an open-source version control system. (Formally, we are The Subversion Corporation, and the corporation home page is http://subversion.org/; however, http://subversion.tigris.org/ is the project home page and that is the site we try to focus the community around.) ### Projects - #### Deselection interface for sparse directories by Rui Guo, mentored by Karl Fogel ## Swarm Development Group (SDG) **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) The Swarm Development Group (SDG) was founded in September 1999 as a private, not-for-profit \[501c(3)\] organization to support the development of the Swarm Simulation System (Swarm) and the interests of the group members. The purposes of the SDG are to: 1. advance the state-of-the-art in multi agent based simulation through the continued advancement of the Swarm Simulation System and support of the Swarm user community 2. promote the free interchange of multi agent based simulations among computing specialists and the public 3. develop and maintain the integrity and competence of individuals engaged in the practice of agent based simulation. Agent-based models (ABMs) are an exciting new approach for learning about and simulating complex systems, and its use is growing rapidly in science and business. As opposed to traditional modeling techniques that represent systems via differential equations for system state, ABMs represent systems as a collection of digital individuals that each have unique characteristics, interact with each other and their environment, and exhibit adaptive behavior. Swarm is a platform for ABMs that includes: a conceptual framework for designing, describing, and conducting experiments on ABMs; software implementing that framework and providing many handy tools; and a community of users and developers that share ideas, software, and experience. Swarm was the first of several agent-based modeling platforms that are widely used by scientists and students studying complexity in many fields of science. Swarm was originally developed in the mid-1990s by Chris Langton at the Santa Fe Institute and has an active, international user community. Swarm software is a library of Objective-C classes; users code their models in Objective-C, Java, or C++. ### Projects - #### web browser embedding by Haruka Matsuzaki, mentored by Marcus G. Daniels - #### Ontology support for Java Swarm by Pavel Vinogradov, mentored by Marcus G. Daniels ## SWIG **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** New BSD license SWIG is a tool for making it easy to expose C/C++ code code for use from a variety of high level programming languages. The number of supported languages now stands at 18 and includes most mainstream languages such as Python, Java, C#, Ruby and Perl. The organisation is the community involved in maintaining SWIG. ### Projects - #### SWIG's Python 3.0 Backend by Haoyu Bai, mentored by Richard John Boulton - #### Support for generating COM wrappers by Jan Jezabek, mentored by Ian Appru - #### Comment "Translator" for SWIG by Cheryl Marie Foil, mentored by Olly Betts - #### C target language backend by Maciej Drwal, mentored by William S Fulton ## The SYSLINUX Project **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) The SYSLINUX project maintains a suite of advanced boot loaders primarily intended for Linux, but widely used for other operating systems. It is the most commonly used boot loaders for booting Linux off the network and off CD-ROMs, but it is not limited to these functions. ### Projects - #### Dynamic Module Loading Using the ELF Format by Stefan Bucur, mentored by H Peter Anvin ## Tcl/Tk Community **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** New BSD license The Tcl/Tk community includes anybody who uses Tcl/Tk, is interested in Tcl/Tk, or just wants to be in the club! Tcl/Tk is used by a wide range of governmental, commercial and educational institutions around the globe. Many well-known and well-regarded systems have either been developed in Tcl/Tk or are using Tcl/Tk as an embedded language (e.g. Expect, AOLserver, DejaGnu, Metakit, Starkit and SQLite). We communicate through IRC (see below), an active development list (see below) and a wiki (http://wiki.tcl.tk). The Seventh European Tcl/Tk Users Meeting will be held in June, and September we will be holding our fifteenth annual Tcl/Tk conference in the USA. Our application was written by the organizing committee of the annual Tcl/Tk conference, although all members of the Tcl/Tk community were encouraged to participate. The group we have put together to submit this application include members of the Tcl/Tk core team, developers from well-established Tcl/Tk projects (such as AOLserver and OpenACS), and educators. ### Projects - #### Loading shared libraries from memory and/or Tcl channels by Daniel Hans, mentored by Andreas Kupries - #### Tcl FUSE (Filesystem in User Space) Language Binding by Alexandros Stergiakis, mentored by Stephen Huntley - #### TclDTrace by Remigiusz Modrzejewski, mentored by Daniel A Steffen - #### Audio input and output library and extension by Mohamed Abderraouf Bencheraiet, mentored by Youness El Alaoui - #### Tcl/Tk Printing Support by Blicharski Krzysztof, mentored by Clif Flynt - #### Update Tk test system project by Ania Pawelczyk, mentored by Jeffrey Hobbs - #### Graph Manipulations by Alejandro Eduardo Cruz Paz, mentored by Steve Landers - #### AOLserver-GD integration: Further Rationalization of API, Sharing of Graphics Among Server Threads, Building Graphing and Sparkline Packages and Improving the Use of Autoconfig and SWIG by Matthew Gagen, mentored by Matthew Burke ## TeX Users Group **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) TUG is the oldest TeX-related organization, founded in 1980. We are membership-based and -funded, with about 1500 members at present. We provide infrastructure for TeX education, documentation, accepting donations and getting grants, and of course software development (http://tug.org/texcollection). We have published a print journal since our founding (http://tug.org/TUGboat) and a companion online-only journal for the last few years (http://tug.org/pracjourn). ### Projects - #### Better Unicode compliance in TeX by Arthur Reutenauer, mentored by Eric Muller - #### Development of TeXShow for ConTeXt and other TeX flavours by Mojca Miklavec, mentored by Taco Hoekwater - #### Online TeX editor using AJAX and MathTran; improve JavaScript support in MathTran by Christoph Hafemeister, mentored by Jonathan Fine ## Translate Toolkit \& Pootle **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) We are focused on the development of localization tools. The focus of the tools is to make localization of computer software and content translation easier and of higher quality. We do this by creating the Translate Toolkit (a set of tools to manipulate translation formats e.g. we transform Mozilla and OpenOffice.org localizations into Gettext PO) and Pootle (an online translation and translation management tools used by OpenOffice.org and Creative Commons amongst many others). We also create an online resource to help others localize effectively, especially in minority languages. The people involved in our project are closely aligned with translation and localization. Thus we are not programmers theorizing about what is best for localizers but are localizers actively trying to make our lives easier and to improve the quality of our own translations. ### Projects - #### Effective user experience for Pootle by Julen Ruiz Aizpuru, mentored by Sayamindu Dasgupta ## TurboGears **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** MIT license TurboGears is an open source project which was founded by Kevin Dangoor in 2005. Kevin brought together a number of tools which people were using for web development into one usable package, in a few hundred lines of code. The result was a framework which allowed for swappable components, allowing a developer the flexibility to choose the best-of-breed technology to solve their web application challenges. As the popularity of TurboGears grew, more developers began to participate. The development of TurboGears became a world-wide effort. Though our developer base has changed throughout the project's life, our ultimate goal has remained: To provide web developers a toolkit which is easy to get started with, supports agile development and provides an exceedingly high level of flexibility, unmatched in the world of web frameworks. Currently our development staff consists of about a dozen programmers (though this figure might be a little bit misleading since there are dozens more developers working on core dependencies, from Genshi and SQLAlchemy to ToscaWidgets, and DBSprockets) whose efforts are divided between supporting a stable base and developing the next generation of our software. This has resulted in merging our efforts with those of another popular Python web framework (Pylons) with the goal to build an even more component-oriented framework and to perpetuate our active role in the Python web frameworks domain. TurboGears, strives to bring together the open source community to develop cutting-edge technology which is enjoyable to use. ### Projects - #### DBSprockets User Interface by Alberto Valverde González, mentored by Mark Ramm - #### Genshi optimization \& XPath rewrite by Marcin Kurczych, mentored by Christopher Lenz - #### ToscaWidgets Library for OpenLayers and jQuery by Sanjiv Singh, mentored by Christopher Perkins - #### Improving TurboGears2 support on Jython by Ariane Paola Gomes, mentored by Philip Jenvey - #### Application for "TurboGears Quality Assurance Initiative" by Steven Mohr, mentored by Christopher Arndt ## Tux4Kids **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) A group of volunteers that develop and maintain multi-platform open source educational software for children: the award-winning, multi-lingual Tux Paint drawing program; the Tux Typing typing tutor game; and Tux, of Math Command, an arcade-style math skill tester. ### Projects - #### Tux Paint: Create new Magic tools by Andrew Corcoran, mentored by Caroline Ford - #### All Indic Language Themes and Improvements in Tuxtype by Mobin Mohan, mentored by Sreerenj B - #### TuxMath Factoroids Proposal by Mager Hois Jesus Manuel, mentored by Timothy E. Holy - #### Additional Features to Tuxtype by Sreyas K, mentored by Prince K Antony - #### Improvement of Tux Typing via statistical and performance analysis by Michael Hsieh, mentored by Vimal Ravi - #### Language learning aid for pre-school/dyslexic kids through TuxPaint using Orton-Gillingham method of learning by Namrata Nehete, mentored by Bill Kendrick - #### Selection Tools for Tux Paint by Reilly Watson, mentored by Martin Fuhrer - #### Extending gameplay in TuxMath by Brendan Luchen, mentored by David Stuart Bruce - #### Support for system file dialogs in Tux Paint by Bruno Luis Goncalves Dilly, mentored by Schrijvers Luc - #### Text Manipulation in Tuxpaint by Arunodai Reddy Vudem, mentored by Mark K. Kim - #### TuxPaint: Create new Magic tools (using the new plug-in API). by Adam Rakowski, mentored by Bill Kendrick ## Umit **Homepage:**
**Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) Umit is a Nmap frontend, that has been developed in Python and GTK and was started with the sponsoring of Google's Summer of Code 2005. The project goal is to develop a network management tool that is really useful for advanced users and easy to be used by newbies. With Umit, a network administrator can create scan profiles for faster and easier network scanning or even compare scan results to easily see any changes. A regular user will also be able to construct powerful scans with Umit Command Creator Wizard. ### Projects - #### Bluetooth Scanner \& Vulnerabilities Database System by Devtar Singh, mentored by Adriano Monteiro Marques - #### Preferences Window and Interface Editor improvements by Luís António Bastião Silva, mentored by Adriano Monteiro Marques - #### Packet manipulation - backend by Bartosz Adam Skowron, mentored by Adriano Monteiro Marques - #### Packet Manipulation User Interface for umit and Plugins support for umit by Francesco Piccinno, mentored by Adriano Monteiro Marques ## OLAT, University of Zurich **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** Apache License, 2.0 The University of Zurich is with over 25000 students and 6000 staff members Switzerlands' biggest and most important higher education institution. The Multimedia and E-Learning Services (MELS) are part of the IT Services and are responsible for the development of multimedia and eLearning content, and also an open source e-learning platform called OLAT (www.olat.org). All the mentors of the following proposal are part of the MELS-staff or working with the MELS. If you plan to participate: We do recommend to attend the first int. OLAT conference 2008 that will be held in Zurich on March 27th and 28th 2008. See http://www.olat.org/conference ### Projects - #### Weblog module for OLAT LMS by Thomas Bernhart, mentored by Guido Schnider - #### OLAT -- LDAP authentication module by Maurus Rohrer, mentored by Florian Gnägi - #### iCal Calendar Feed by Udit Sajjanhar, mentored by Marion M. Weber - #### Clipboard for OLAT by Mayank Jain, mentored by Felix Jost - #### Tagaging by Marcel Karras, mentored by Jens Schwendel - #### Editor for IMS-Content packages in OLAT by Sergio Trentini, mentored by Florian Gnägi - #### eLML template generator by Thomas Linowsky, mentored by Joel Fisler - #### XSL stylesheet for the transformation of eLML-lessons to DocBook format by Alberto Sanz, mentored by Joel Fisler ## VideoLAN **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) VideoLAN is a group of software programmers that originated in a few projects licensed in the GPL. The most known of those projects are VLC media player and x264 encoder. But other less known projects still exists. ### Projects - #### VideoLAN -- Vista acceleration and DirectX improvements by Kaarlo Henrik Räihä, mentored by André Weber - #### Enhance PVR capabilities of VLC by Dylan Yudaken, mentored by Pierre d'Herbemont - #### MTP Device support for VLC... by Fabio Ritrovato, mentored by Antoine Cellerier - #### Windows CE port of VLC by Geoffroy Couprie, mentored by Decoodt Jérôme - #### Speed Optimizations for x264 by Holger Lubitz, mentored by Alexander Izvorski - #### Qt improvements by Lukas Durfina, mentored by Jean-Baptiste Kempf - #### DLNA UPnP A/V integration in VLC media player by Mirsal Ennaime, mentored by Rafaël Carré - #### Create a new VLC interface for Maemo (internet tablet) by Antoine Lejeune, mentored by Rafaël Carré - #### x264 - Improve Fast Inter Refinement and Adaptive Quantization by Joey Degges, mentored by Jason Garrett-Glaser - #### Mac OS X Integration and Enhancements by Eric Dudiak, mentored by Felix Paul Kuehne ## Vim **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** Apache License, 2.0 Vi IMproved, the text editor ### Projects - #### Vim plug-in for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 by Yiwen Wang, mentored by Abraham Moolenaar - #### Regexp improvements \& integration by Andrei Aiordachioaie, mentored by Abraham Moolenaar - #### On-the-fly Code Checker for Vim by Birgi Tamersoy, mentored by Abraham Moolenaar - #### Undo Tree Persistence by Jordan Lewis, mentored by Abraham Moolenaar ## The WebKit Open Source Project **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** New BSD license WebKit is an open source, cross-platform web browser engine. WebKit is also the name of the Mac OS X system framework version of the engine that's used by Safari, Dashboard, Mail, and many other OS X applications. WebKit's HTML and JavaScript code began as a branch of the KHTML and KJS libraries from KDE. WebKit is also used in Google's Andriod platform, Nokia's S60 Browser, TrollTech's Qt, and TorchMobile's Iris Browser™. ### Projects - #### Code Generator for a Bytecode JavaScript Interpreter by Cameron Zwarich, mentored by Maciej Stachowiak - #### WebKit SVG Filters Design and Implementation by Alex Mathews, mentored by Oliver Hunt - #### WebForms 2.0 Support by Michelangelo De Simone, mentored by Adele Peterson - #### Improving and Extending WebKit Inspector by Keishi Hattori, mentored by Adam Roben - #### Application to add XBL2 support by Julien Chaffraix, mentored by Eric Seidel ## Battle for Wesnoth **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) The Battle for Wesnoth is a free, turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme. Fight a desperate battle to reclaim the throne of Wesnoth, or take hand in any number of other adventures... 200+ unit types. 16 races. 6 major factions. Hundreds of years of history. The world of Wesnoth is absolutely huge and limited only by your creativity - make your own custom units, compose your own maps, and write your own scenarios or even full-blown campaigns. You can also challenge up to 8 friends - or strangers - and fight in epic multi-player fantasy battles. ### Projects - #### Developing the Formula AI System and using it to create smart and pluggable AI by Bartosz Waresiak, mentored by David White - #### A new map editor with a focus on clean design and then new features by Tomasz Sniatowski, mentored by Mark de Wever ## Wikimedia Foundation **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge... That's what we're doing. The Wikimedia Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit company which operates Wikipedia and other community-built, open-source, free-content educational resource web sites. Wikimedia maintains the open-source MediaWiki software which powers these and many other wiki sites. ### Projects - #### Easing user upload of video for use with MetaVidWiki by Stjepan Rajko, mentored by Michael Dale - #### Visual Diff by Guy Van den Broeck, mentored by Brion Vibber ## The Wine Project **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL) The Wine Project is dedicated to producing an LGPL'd implementation of the win16 and win32 APIs with as goal running all Windows applications and games under linux and bsd. ### Projects - #### Improving Wine MSXML implementation by Piotr Caban, mentored by James Hawkins - #### Print Dialog by Gal Topper, mentored by Detlef Riekenberg - #### Implementing proper Control Panel support for Wine by Owen Rudge, mentored by Juan Lang - #### DirectPlay implementation by Ismael Barros Barros, mentored by Kai Blin - #### Wine - Richedit with Tables by Dylan Andrew Harper Smith, mentored by Huw D M Davies - #### Improve Gdi+ Implemenation by Adam Joel Petaccia, mentored by Lei Zhang ## WinLibre **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) WinLibre project is an open source project aimed at popularizing Open Source software. WinLibre is a META-project that was originally targeted for the windows platform (hence its name) but it has evolved during the last 2 years to embrace also the Mac OS and Linux platforms. We are focusing on delivering to our users quality open source software with a strong emphasis on ease of use. We are mainly maintaining WinLibre (open source software distribution for windows) and MacLibre (open source software distribution for Mac OS X). The Winlibre distribution provides a collection of first-class open-source software bundled in a easy single installer \& updater. Through time and thanks to the former editions of the Google Summer Of Code, the Winlibre project has evolved and created other sub-projects to fill gaps in the open-source desktop software offering. The Maclibre distribution is an equivalent to the Winlibre distribution for Mac OS. ### Projects - #### Easy Backup Tool by Vincent VALTON, mentored by Pierre-Jean Coudert ## WordPress **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) WordPress is the most popular open source state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform (blogging software). ### Projects - #### WordPress Performance by Jacob Santos, mentored by Mahmoud H. Al-Qudsi - #### WP-storage by Cesar D. Rodas, mentored by Alex Shiels - #### Improving the search system by Konrad Goluchowski, mentored by Hailin Wu - #### Web Forums Export/Import Standard by Daniel Larkin, mentored by Sam Bauers - #### Movable Type / TypePad AtomPub-based Content Importer by Ronald Heft, mentored by Lloyd Denis Budd - #### Integrate Plugin installation via web interface. #6015 by Dion Hulse, mentored by Peter John Westwood ## WorldForge **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) The WorldForge project creates multiplayer online roleplaying games. Our vision is to foster an independent community in which many free games can develop and evolve with unique roleplaying-oriented worlds and rules, running on a wide selection of server and client implementations with a standard networking protocol tying everything together. Our core focus is the construction of a complete system with all the tools, technology, content and artwork required to build complex persistent online virtual worlds. ### Projects - #### Implement advanced entity creator in Ember client by Alexey Torkhov, mentored by Erik Hjortsberg - #### Terrain Modifiers by Tamas Bates, mentored by Kai Blin - #### Ember: Implement a sound manager to allow Ember to have sounds by Romulo Fernandes Machado Leitao, mentored by Erik Hjortsberg ## wxPython **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** wxWindows Library License wxPython is closely associated with the wxWidgets group, and several developers cross-over between them both. The organization is led by myself, Robin Dunn, and is supported by several active contributors from the community. ### Projects - #### Recognizing Python Callback Exceptions by Christopher Davis, mentored by Robin Dunn - #### Refactoring and enhancing feature set of FloatCanvas by Matthias Kesternich, mentored by Christopher H. Barker ## wxWidgets **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** wxWindows Library License wxWidgets is an open source cross-platform GUI toolkit, with ports for Linux/Unix (GTK+, X11, Motif, MGL), Windows, Windows Mobile, Mac OS X, and OS/2. You can write wxWidgets applications in several languages including C++, Python, C#, Ruby, and Perl. Thousands of commercial and non-commercial organizations rely on wxWidgets; notable applications include Audacity, OSAF's Chandler, Juice, AVG Antivirus, Forte Agent, and BitWise IM. Recently, wxWidgets user Robert J. Lang was featured on Apple's front page for his work on origami software using wxWidgets. ### Projects - #### Fixing bugs in wxGTK and wxMSW. by Marcin Wojdyr, mentored by Vadim Zeitlin - #### Adding wxWallCtrl to wxWidgets by Mokhtar M. Khorshid, mentored by Julian Smart ## XBMC **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) XBMC (formerly "XBox Media Center") is a free and open source cross-platform media center, designed to be the hub of your entertainment system. XBMC was originally established in 2002, at that time being developed as media player software for the first-generation Xbox game-console. XBMC has since been ported to run natively under Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows operating-systems. XBMC has been translated to over 30 languages, won two SourceForge Community Choice Awards (Best Multimedia Project and Best Game Project in 2006), and today XBMC has a very broad international community of active developers, graphic artists, and devoted users. ### Projects - #### One common GUI front-end that can control multiple PVR/DVR/HTPC back-ends by Alasdair Campbell, mentored by Jonathan Marshall - #### Hardware Accelerated Video Decoding in XBMC by Robert Rudd, mentored by Anoop Menon ## Xiph.org Foundation **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** New BSD license Xiph.Org is an open source project and non-profit corporation dedicated to providing open and free-to-implement multimedia technology as a foundation for an interoperable, level playing field on the internet and other digital distribution networks. Over the past 8 years we have developed most of the major patent-free audio and video codecs currently in use, including Vorbis, Speex, FLAC and Theora, as well as developing the Ogg streaming format, and the Icecast streaming media server. This year we are also coordinating projects for the Annodex association under our umbrella. The Annodex project is developing a set of open specifications and open source software to allow the creation of hyperlinked Webs of audio and video integrated with the text-based view of the current Web. Toward this goal, Annodex has done a great deal of work developing tools, browser plugins and convenience libraries to facilitate adoption of Xiph.Org's lower-level technology. As such the two projects have largely aligned goals, but focus on different levels in the stack. ### Projects - #### Parallelize the most time consuming functions of Theora Decoder / My intent in this work is to implement a multithreading version of the most time consuming functions of Theora Decoder. by Leonardo de Paula Rosa Piga, mentored by Felipe Portavales Goldstein ## XMMS2 - X(cross)platform Music Multiplexing System **Homepage:**
**Preferred License:** GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL) XMMS2 is the spiritual successor to the very successful XMMS project. The creators of XMMS got together in 2002 and spun out the XMMS2 sister project that is now lead by Tobias Rundström and Anders Waldenborg with around 10-15 regular contributors spread over the world (but concentrated in Europe). Our focus has been to separate music playback from the UI in order to provide multiple interfaces and other interesting features. While the code of the music playback engine is starting to mature we have also added features that are expected from modern music players, like a Media library and a powerful way of querying it (Collections). ### Projects - #### New Service Clients and Language Bindings by Daniel Chokola, mentored by Daniel Svensson - #### Collections 2.0 by Erik Massop, mentored by Sébastien Cevey - #### New command-line interface (nycli) by Igor Ribeiro de Assis, mentored by Sébastien Cevey ## XMPP Standards Foundation **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** MIT license The mission of the XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) is to build an open, standardized, secure, feature-rich, widely-deployed, decentralized infrastructure for real-time communication and collaboration over the Internet. We seek to achieve that goal by developing the world's best open protocols for instant messaging, presence, and other forms of near-real-time communication, based on the IETF's Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (a formalization of the streaming XML protocols originally defined by the Jabber open-source community). ### Projects - #### Metacontacts support and various roster improvements for Psi by Adam Czachorowski, mentored by Remko Tronçon - #### Updating and Improving BOSH Support of Openfire by Safa Sofuoglu, mentored by Gaston Dombiak - #### Bidirectional-streams Over Synchronous HTTP (XEP-0124) support in Gajim Jabber client by Tomas Karasek, mentored by Leboulanger Yann - #### Themable WebKit-based Chat Dialogs by Pawel Wiejacha, mentored by Kevin Smith - #### Plug-in system for Gajim by Mateusz Bilinski, mentored by Leboulanger Yann ## The X.Org Foundation **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** MIT license X.Org maintains and develops the X Window System ### Projects - #### Generic GPU-Accelerated Video Decoding by Younes Manton, mentored by Stephane Marchesin - #### Enhancing xcb-glx for wider usability by Kristof Ralovich, mentored by Barton Christopher Massey - #### GUI tool for assisted editing of the XKB configuration database. by Symeon Xenitellis, mentored by Sergey Udaltsov - #### Moving all the input code into a separate thread by Tiago Vignatti, mentored by Daniel Stone ## XWiki **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL) XWiki is a Java open source software development platform based on the wiki principles, under a LGPL license. In addition to being a full-featured wiki, it is also a second generation wiki allowing collaborative web applications to be written easily and quickly. On top of this platform several products are developed, targeted mainly on aiding enterprise-level needs. XWiki has a vibrant community of developers and users. The community is made of individual users as well as companies around the world which are using XWiki for Intranets and Communities. One example of an important project built on top of XWiki is Curriki (http://www.curriki.org) which is open source itself and hosted inside XWiki's source repository. Curriki is an online service for creating and sharing open education resources (based on XWiki and the Google Web Toolkit). ### Projects - #### SSO and OpenID Support by Markus Lanthaler, mentored by Thomas Mortagne - #### REST API for XWIKI by Cismaru Alexandru, mentored by Sergiu Gabriel Dumitriu - #### WebDAV Interface for XWiki by Asiri Rathnayake, mentored by Ludovic Dubost - #### XWiki Watch: UI \& ergonomics improvements by Ecaterina Valica, mentored by Anca Paula Luca - #### XWiki Office import by Wang Ning, mentored by Vincent Massol - #### XWiki Syntax validation, coloring and suggestion in XEclipse by Malaka Ekanayake, mentored by Fabio Mancinelli - #### Distributed XWiki Search Engine by Sai Krishna Pendyala, mentored by David Ward - #### XWiki Offline project application by Eduard Moraru, mentored by Sergiu Gabriel Dumitriu ## Zope Foundation, Inc **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** Zope Public License The Zope Foundation has the goal to promote, maintain, and develop the Zope (http://zope.org) platform. It does this by supporting the Zope community. Our community includes the open source community of contributors to the Zope software, contributors to the documentation and web infrastructure, as well as the community of businesses and organizations that use Zope. The Zope Foundation is the copyright holder of the Zope software and many extensions and associated software. The Zope Foundation also manages the zope.org website, and manages the infrastructure for open source collaboration. ### Projects - #### Improved replication for ZODB through ZEO Raid by Dirceu Pereira Tiegs, mentored by Christian Theune - #### OCQL a Query Language for ZODB (Phase 0) by Charith Lakshitha Paranaliyanage, mentored by Gröszer Ádám - #### Grok: Introspector and other things on the way to number one by Ulrich Fouquet, mentored by Martijn Faassen ## Zumastor **Homepage:** **Preferred License:** GNU General Public License (GPL) Zumastor is a project to add block-level snapshots and remote replication to Linux. ### Projects - #### Implementing easy way for users to access snapshots in Nautilus/Konqueror by Mladen Djordjevic, mentored by Daniel Richard Kegel