beagle & soc07 06 Apr 2007 12:46 pm
Google Summer of Code 2007!
This year’s Summer of Code projects were recently announced and my application was accepted! The topic of my application was Thunderbird backend rewrite, which is pretty self-explaining IMHO (press the link to read a very short abstract). So… I will apparently spend my summer working on an Open source project that I really enjoy - awesome! I have already started with the planning and will hopefully publish a more detailed description of my project soon. Check back later.
As this is my first blog entry, a short introduction to myself would probably be in order. My name is Pierre Östlund and I’m a 19-year-old first year computer science student at Linköping University, Sweden. Been using open source software a couple of years now and decided that I wanted to give something back to the community. Beagle was the project that caught my eyes and was the project I began to write code for about a year ago. The Thunderbird (including the contact viewer) and Opera backend are mainly my accomplishments so far, but I hope to contribute much more in the future. When I’m not in front of my computer or in school, I usually spend some time with my friends and/or play some Wii.
I have updated the beagle wiki with some information about my project. Check it out if you want to know more about my SoC project.
http://beagle-project.org/Summer_Of_Code_2007
on 13 May 2007 at 8:21 pm 1.Aron said …
Great plan! I wish you the best of luck on this project and I’m eager to see the results. Non-support for desktop search in Thunderbird is one of the last big things I miss since I made the transfer from Windows to Ubuntu Linux.
I’ll be happy to do some beta-testing if you have anything worth testing. My Thunderbird archive is almost 1GB and contains over 40000 mails, so it might be an interesting testcase
on 13 May 2007 at 9:23 pm 2.Pierre Östlund said …
Thanks a lot, I really appreciate your support Aron!
I can also tell that you will most likely be a very, very interesting test case, especially when it comes to scalability. So stay tuned and check back every now and then for more information on my progress.