openSUSE Google Summer of Code Projects Announced

Google have announced the openSUSE projects and students taking part in this year’s Google Summer of Code. The projects include:

• 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 Farràs i Ballabriga, mentored by Peter Poeml

• GNOME Build service client for OpenSUSE by Mario ÐaniÇ, mentored by Rodrigo Moya

• Integration of OpenID Consumer to Build Service by Hameedullah Khan, mentored by Cornelius Schumacher

• Migration asistent reloaded by Peter LibiÍ, mentored by Pavol Rusnak

• Build Service <-> Eclipse Integration by longhong, mentored by Michal Marek

Only 10 applications from the 67 could be chosen. Special thanks to everybody that has been involved so far: the volunteering mentors, those driving the application process, and of course – all of the students. Congratulations to all the selected students!