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