Ibrahim Abdel Fattah Mohamed Personal bLOG

Not accepted in GSoC 2009

Dear Ibrahim,

Thank you for applying to Google Summer of Code 2009. The proposal(s) you submitted were not selected for the program this year. We annually receive many more proposals than we are able to accept, and we would like to encourage you to apply again next year.

With best regards,
The Google Summer of Code Program Administration Team

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My WordPress-GSoC Idea

I have been thinking for 2 weeks or so – actually it was since I published WordCampEgypt.com -, what if we can have a Code Editor in the WordPress Admin Panel Plugin/Theme Editing pages? I’m bored of logging into my FTP account, grab the file and edit it locally and then re-upload it just because I can’t be comfortable editting it online though the admin panel with this grayesh color all over the code. Even if I’m just adding one line or two, sometimes I can’t reach exactly the point I need because I get lost – even with my glasses -.

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GSoC 2009 is on!

Today Google Student Blog stated that a new year of google Summer of Code has just started, I think depiak, will join this year. We have been doing great and I think we are ready. Even if they wasn’t interested and I doubt this, I will join this year, it’s really a great experience as a lot of my firends have stated.

What is Google Summer of Code?

Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a global program that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source projects. Google will be working with several open source, free software, and technology-related groups to identify and fund several projects over a three month period. Historically, the program has brought together nearly 2,500 students with over 180 open source projects to create millions of lines of code. The program, which kicked off in 2005, is now in its fifth year. If you are feeling nostalgic or are interested in learning more about the projects we have worked with in the past, check out the 2006, 2007 and 2008 program pages.

While the majority of past student participants were enrolled in university Computer Science and Computer Engineering programs, GSoCers come from a wide variety of educational backgrounds, from computational biology to mining engineering. Many of our past participants had never participated in an open source project before GSoC; others used the GSoC stipend as an opportunity to concentrate fully on their existing open source coding activities over the summer. Many of our “graduates” have later become program mentors.

You might be interested in seeing this video introducing Google Summer of Code 2009.
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