[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Google Summer of Code 2013 – Evergreen Project

[Ben Shum]

The Evergreen Project was accepted for the third year into the Google 
Summer of Code for 2013 among 177 other open source projects.  We asked 
for and received one student slot; our intent this summer is to focus on 
providing quality community guidance and mentoring for this student.

As always, the mentors took careful review of all student proposals 
submitted for GSOC projects with Evergreen.  While we wish we could have 
chosen more of the best proposals, ultimately we could only choose one.

Congratulations to Dmitry Nechai, Chernihiv State Technological 
University, who submitted a proposal to work on “Build a customizable 
dashboard to show library usage and server health“ (see 
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2013/laque/20001). 
Coding is scheduled to begin soon and we expect to hear lots from Dmitry 
as he begins his work.  His IRC nickname is “laque”, so look for him in 
our IRC channel to say hello.

Jason Stephenson (Merrimac Valley Library Consortium) and Benjamin Shum, 
(Bibliomation) will be the primary mentors working with Dmitry on this 
project.  That said, Google Summer of Code is intended to introduce 
student interest in working with open source projects and we invite the 
whole Evergreen community to participate by communicating openly with 
our student.  Together, we hope for a positive learning experience, some 
new code, and some fun this summer.

More to follow!
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