Congrats to Google SoC students working on Asterisk
roderickm May 4th, 2009
Each summer since 2005, the Google Summer of Code offers stipends to student developers so they may contribute to open source software projects. The Asterisk project is again one of 150 accepted mentoring organizations. We offer hearty congratulations to the four students accepted into GSoC to contribute to Asterisk!
Brett Bryant and Eliel Sardañons will be building a common infrastructure to read and write configuration and other run-time data in Asterisk modules.
Claude Patry will be adding CLI filtering features to assist with live debugging.
Giuseppe Sucameli will be extending voicemail capabilities to make menus and voicemail behavior customizable.
Open Source Team Lead Russell Bryant posted more detailed project descriptions on the Asterisk-Dev mailing list.
According to the GSoC 2009 FAQ, Google Summer of Code has several goals:
- Get more open source code created and released for the benefit of all
- Inspire young developers to begin participating in open source development
- Help open source projects identify and bring in new developers and committers
- Provide students the opportunity to do work related to their academic pursuits during the summer (think “flip bits, not burgers”)
- Give students more exposure to real-world software development scenarios (e.g., distributed development, software licensing questions, mailing-list etiquette)
The program represents Google’s growing commitment of funding and administration that has a significant impact on the open source community. In addition to new code contributions, it engages hundreds of talented students with thriving open source development. Thanks to the mentors committed to guiding these students, and to Google for the Summer of Code program.