{"id":823,"date":"2008-05-27T10:08:58","date_gmt":"2008-05-27T15:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=823"},"modified":"2008-05-27T10:08:58","modified_gmt":"2008-05-27T15:08:58","slug":"gsoc-updates-start-your-engines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/05\/27\/gsoc-updates-start-your-engines","title":{"rendered":"GSoC Updates: Start your engines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MySQL is featured on the Google Open Source Blog<\/strong><br \/>\nJust after leaving JavaOne, Leslie pinged me on IRC to inform me that the MySQL project was featured on the <a href=\"http:\/\/google-opensource.blogspot.com\/\">Google Open Source blog<\/a>. Go on, read <a href=\"http:\/\/google-opensource.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/moments-of-inspiration.html\">Moments of Inspiration<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em> In other news from mentors, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/\">Colin Charles<\/a>, former mentor and 2008 organization administrator for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysql.com\/\">MySQL<\/a> dropped a note to let us know that their <a href=\"http:\/\/googlesummerofcode.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/so-what-is-this-community-bonding-all.html\">Community Bonding period<\/a> is moving along swimmingly.  So well, in fact, that their students are already delivering weekly status reports.  Colin mentioned that their student <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/soc\/2008\/mysql\/appinfo.html?csaid=2080176590971E8\">Filippo Bollini<\/a> had crafted a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filippobollini.it\/soc\/?p=4\">particularly well written update<\/a>; it&#8217;s worth checking out for mentors wondering what sorts of information to collect from students or for students wondering what kind of details are most useful to their mentors.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Congratulations Filippo. I expect great things from you (as does <a href=\"http:\/\/krow.net\/\">Brian<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Start your engines!<\/strong><br \/>\nStudents, and mentors alike, this is the week that the Summer of Code starts! Well, coding anyway. Its very encouraging to see all the weekly reports flow in, and once I catch a breath, I&#8217;ll be summarising them for all to see and keep up with how the MySQL SoC students of 2008 are doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MySQL is featured on the Google Open Source Blog Just after leaving JavaOne, Leslie pinged me on IRC to inform me that the MySQL project was featured on the Google Open Source blog. Go on, read Moments of Inspiration. In other news from mentors, Colin Charles, former mentor and 2008 organization administrator for MySQL dropped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[103,150,149,152,1775,151],"class_list":["post-823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mysql","tag-community","tag-google","tag-gsoc","tag-media","tag-mysql","tag-summer-of-code"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-dh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}