New post at the #Typelevel Blog: https://typelevel.org/blog/2024/12/22/gsoc24-going-feral-on-the-cloud.html
This describes Ching Hian’s Google Summer of Code project, to take the Feral library and extend it to additional serverless cloud providers, so that applications can be more flexible, and less tied to specific clouds.
It's a great enhancement, and shows the way towards future work. Check it out!
🎉 GSoC 2024 is a wrap! Four successful projects, and we’re continuing our showcase series. Today: wh201906’s native mobile encryption upgrade with faster speeds and a secure 256-bit key! 🔐📱 #GSoC2024 #OpenSource
With the conclusion of Google Summer of Code 2024, we’re thrilled to share that four of our sponsored projects achieved remarkable success! Continuing our series of posts highlighting each project, today we’re featuring the work of @wh201906. This project tackled the challenge of optimising encryption and decryption processes, boosting speed for mobile devices in particular (but desktop too). Additionally, wh201906 improved the encryption security by transitioning to a more robust 256-bit key. ...
GSoC 2024 has now come to an end, and we're thrilled to announce the successful completion of four incredible projects! We extend our heartfelt thanks to our talented contributors—HaHaBill, wh201906, Benjiman, and AliceHincu—for their hard work and outstanding achievements. We also want to express our gratitude to the mentors—Daeraxa, Tessus, Roman, JackGruber, and Eduardo—for their invaluable support and guidance throughout the program. Over the next few days, we'll be sharing a series of pos...
I had a good conversation with @karen this weekend at the Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit.
Thank you again, Karen, for all you do!
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Today, Sameer Verma and I met at a mall near San Francisco State University (SFSU). We talked about OLPC and Sugar. We also talked about Jazz, Country, and Hindustani music while listening to The Headhunters.
Any open source folks in the bay area want to meet up?
I'm in San Jose / Mountain View today and tomorrow for the #gsoc2024 #GSoC dinner. I'm going to miss the mentor summit, but @karen will be there.
Thursday: I'll be hanging out in the Tetra Hotel lobby or bar area, from 3 pm to 5:30 pm today. Then I'm off to the GSoC celebration dinner.
On Thursday, I'll be wearing a gray @conservancy t-shirt and might be doing some needle work.
Friday morning, I'll also be hanging out in the hotel breakfast area or lobby.
Friday afternoon, you'll find me in the mentor meetup room for a few hours before my flight.
On Friday, look for the person in a purple flowered shirt and burgundy shorts.
Krita's 2024 Google Summer of Code project has been a success! Ken Lo has been working on pixel perfect ellipses, and his code has already been merged and will be in Krita 5.3, this year!
Well, somehow another summer* has come to a close and, with it, this year's Google Summer of Code has all but wrapped up! A little GSoC speedrun If you aren't familiar with Google Summer of Code ("GSoC", for the rest of this post to save my weary fingers), it's a yearly program that Google runs in which they pay people to successfully contribute features and improvements to free and open source software ("FOSS") projects like ours. It's hopefully a win-win for all parties involved: it's a decent summer gig and learning experience for the contributor, it incentivizes new people to dip their toes into the world of FOSS contribution, and it theoretically strengthens the ecosystem of FOSS software that companies like Google rely heavily on.
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