GSoC: Accepted students announced

[Juan Germán Castañeda Echevarria]

Hi everyone,
I'm Juan Germán Castañeda Echevarría (juanger), one of the selected students
in this year's Google Summer of Code.

My project consists in the design and implementation of a Cocoa application
using the MacPorts framework developed by Randall Woods and George Armah. I
want to create a simple and good looking interface to attract users who
don't like to use the terminal and for users that want a more visual way of
using MacPorts.

There are some GUI applications out there, but they are not fully Cocoa
based and also some members of the community don't like their GUI design.
That is why community feedback will be very important in almost all the
stages of the development and I'll be very happy to hear you all.

A little about myself: I'm a Mexican Computer Science student who currently
is preparing his thesis. I love Ruby, Rails and Cocoa and I'm a teacher
assistant at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Last year I
applied for the MPWA but I wasn't selected and this year I want to give my
best to help the MacPorts project.

I made a sample application for this proposal (
http://juanger.googlepages.com/Porton-app.zip) and I'll begin to work out my
ideas from now.

Greetings.

My blog: http://xocoruby.blogspot.com
My projects: http://github.com/juanger

2009/4/20 Rainer Müller <raimue at macports.org>

> Hi,
>
> in this years edition of Google Summer of Code, The MacPorts Project
> will mentor the following 2 students:
>
>  Juan Germán Castañeda Echevarría:
>     GUI frontend using MacPorts.framework
>
>  Dmitry Gorbik:
>     Logging system
>
> Dmitry, Juan, welcome to our community!
> I would appreciate if you two could reply with a few words about your
> projects as introduction to the macports-dev list for those who are
> interested.
>
> More information about the proposals and the projects are available at
> <http://socghop.appspot.com/org/home/google/gsoc2009/macports>.
>
>
> In overall, we had less applicants than last year. It seems like we were
> not able to attract many students to work for us. If you have ideas what
> we could improve for a possible next year, let me know. For example, we
> did not get any proposal for the MPWA task while we got quite a few last
> year.
>
> Also, we would have gotten another third slot from Google implementing a
> 'Scan for broken library dependencies'. But unfortunately, the student
> also got accepted for an internship at another company and decided to go
> there instead of doing GSoC. In lack of other high quality proposals we
> had to give this slot back to the general pool and therefore gave a
> student for another project a chance.
>
> Looking forward to this summer's work and its results,
> Rainer
>



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krimpatul.
Juanger.
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