April 2007 Archives
April 15, 2007 3:14 AM
Accepted into Google Summer of Code 2007!
Last Wednesday I was informed that I have been accepted into this year's
instance of the Google Summer of Code program! I was extremely excited
when I received confirmation as I am going to have an absolute blast
coding all summer. 
Approximately 6,200 university and college students
applied, and this year over 900 were accepted (up from about 600 chosen for
GSoC 2006).
The organization that I aimed my winning proposal at was the XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF). The abstract of the proposal is available here. Many of you who know me also know how great of an instant messaging network I think Jabber is--so it goes without saying that I am more than pleased to be implementing a new portion of an awesome protocol like XMPP (in an equally awesome cross-platform Jabber server, Openfire).
As if this news was not amazing enough, my good friend Jared Hendry
(buchan) had his proposal to the Mono Project accepted as well! 
WIN.