Thu Tu’s Blog

For the second year in a row, Google accepted Coppermine to be a mentor organization in Google Summer of Code. Yay!
I am again going to be an organization administrator to coordinate Coppermine's participation in the program. The student that I mentored last year not only continued to work with Coppermine, but signed up to be [...]

Yay! I will be going to Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit where I will get to meet some of the mentors and organization administrators of GSoC. What I look forward to in particular is meeting open source developers from other teams, and around the world. The only bummer is that I am the only [...]

The 2007 edition of Google Summer of Code has come to an close. I'm happy to write that each of the four students who worked with Coppermine Photo Gallery have passed. Many thanks to the students for the work on improving Coppermine and hopefully it's the beginning of not just their work with Coppermine but [...]

rphMedia over at the Coppermine forums has offered a mod called Image Scroller - based on iTunes. It looks so cool that I couldn't help but implementing it at my Take Thu gallery and my blog (at the bottom of the blog's homepage).
For those who want an includable version of flow.htm, create a file in [...]

As organization administrator for Coppermine's participation in Google's Summer of Code, I have asked the four students working with our team to provide weekly updates on their progress. After two weeks, things are looking good. I am impressed with the students. As a dev team member and user, I am also excited at the potential [...]

Yesterday, I found out in a Coppermine forum thread called RSS feed of pics for Google Screensaver that Google Photos Screensaver can show photos from a feed. This appealed to me because I currently use a photo screensaver but it is limited to files on the hard drive. By having a feed from my gallery, [...]

Google Summer of Code has released stats on women participation in this year's GSoC. Only four percent of students in the program are women. Apparently, that's twice the percentage of female representation in the open source world.
I guess it's not surprising. In 2004, I was the first woman to be on the dev team for [...]