It is time to apply for an ejabberd or Erlang related Google Summer of code 2007 project. If you are not a student you can share your project ideas with us.
We are going to be mentor this year again for the Google Summer of Code. The Google Summer of Code is a program that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source projects.
We hope to be able to have interesting projects this year again. Last year lead to the development of a real-time wiki prototype, based on ejabberd.
As explained on the Summer of Code 2006: Reasons to Apply for ejabberd page from last year, participating to the Google Summer of Code for ejabberd is one of the best way to mix the best of two worlds:
- Erlang programming
- Instant Messaging one of the funniest area to work in
The Google Summer of Code should be a good way to join the ejabberd development team and the target should be provide good and usefull piece of code for the project.
As a rule of thumb, we would be very happy to collaborate with other development projects that want to add chat features, but we won’t be mentoring those projects directly.
We propose to focus on project that can be integrated with ejabberd or have a direct link to instant messaging (for example VoIP server integration).
I propose to discuss ideas for the Google Summer of Code 2007 in the ejabberd module development forum.
