GSoC: Two Weeks

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 [...]

My Photo Feed for Google Photos Screensaver

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, [...]

Women in Open Source, or Shortage Thereof

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 [...]

Do NOT Procrastinate with Google Summer of Code Application

This is the night before the deadline for student applications. Remember: the extended deadline is March 26 at 5pm PDT.

I’m going through the applications submitted to Coppermine for Google Summer of Code and have encountered a few server errors. I’ve made comments and evaluations where they didn’t go through. I had to confirm whether [...]

Students: Summer of Code Applications now being accepted

It’s official! Google has published the list of participating mentor organizations for Google Summer of Code 2007: Coppermine’s profile page

Student Application

Here’s information for students on how to apply.

Mentors

Coppermine Developers who have volunteered to be mentors: Thu Tu Abbas Ali Aditya Mooley Dr. Tarique Sani

Contact Information

I’m the administrator representing Coppermine. [...]