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 [...]

As I mentioned before, some of the participants of Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit had dinner together the night before the "unconference" earlier this month.
When I volunteered to make dinner reservations due to my being a local, there were less than 10 people. By the time I was to make reservations earlier in the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 the [...]