woo woo first commit! and first impressions.

I have just committed the first contribution from Milena who is working on type checking for Swift.

For what ended up as a very simple change (11 lines of pretty simple code) it has taken quite a long time to get it into our SVN - the basic code was written some weeks ago (before the official start) but we've had plenty of fun since then getting test cases to pass (this year I seem to be tripping on test cases more than I have in the past) and the like - new-to-the-project developer things that we won't have to do again for the rest of the summer.

I've helped mentor students before, but always students that "belong" to one academic researcher or another; it is an interesting and refreshing change to have a student working on a project that I suggested, rather than be supporting somebody else's project.

So I am pleased.

Diagnostic Administrator Interface Framework

Hello!

I'm Karl Norby, and I am current a second year undergraduate CS major at the University of Chicago. I will be working with Charles Bacon as my mentor on a Diagnostic Administrator Interface Framework, which should make configuration much simpler.

I keep a blog, which is not specific to this project, but I am sure to update it with my progress.

If you would like to get in touch, you can try my on gTalk (karl.norby {--at--} gmail {**dot**} com), on the MUD, or:

• my personal site
• facebook profile
• LinkedIn Profile

It should be a fun summer; I look forward to working with you all. Good luck to all!

Development of dynamic resource trading service for Virtual Workspaces

Hi,

First of all I would like to congratulate all accepted students !

I am Artem Harutyunyan, a first year PhD student at the Department of Computer Systems and Informatics at State Engineering University of Armenia in Yerevan, Armenia. My mentor is Tim Freeman and I will be working on the development of dynamic resource trading service for Virtual Workspaces.

I have set up a blog here, it's currently empty ;) , but I am planning to write there about the progress of my work, as well as other interesting technical stuff I will come around, so check it out from time to time :).

Needless to say, that I am very happy to be the part of community, and I hope to know everyone better. Feel free to drop me a line at hartem[at]gmail.com, alternatively one contact me via MSN or Jabber (ID's are the same as my email).

Here are links to my profiles on LinkedIn and Faceebook.

Cheers and fruitful coding,
Artem.

Type Checking and Inference for SwiftScript

Hi there!

I am Milena Nikolic, a CS student at the Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Nis, Serbia. I will be working with Ben Clifford as a mentor on Type Checking and Inference for SwiftScript. 

I am really thrilled about this project because I have major interest in grammars and compilers. Also I am happy I'll be working with this community during summer!

If you have any comment/idea/anything about my project or anything else please contact me via mail, IM or MUD. Here are some links more:

- My homepage, unfortunately in Serbian

- My Facebook profile

- My Blog

Best wishes to all the GSoC students and mentors! Happy hacking this summer!

gRavi User Interface Project

Hi,

I will be working with Ravi Madduri as my mentor, to create a browser-based user interface for gRavi. [GSOC page, detailed project description]

My name is Marcus, and I'm a CS theory student, but have a much greater appreciation for concrete implementation and coding than theoretical stuff. The last 2 years I've spent much of my spare time learning the myriad of tech's that make up good web programming: xhtml, css, javascript etc for the server side, and java, ruby on rails, mysql, comet etc on the server side (and been appropriately damaged - my programming language of preference is javascript).

I'm also from Sweden (we've got two! :), but spend most of my time in the US. I've got my own blog at http://feeds.feedburner.com/MarcusWestin, where I cover mostly javascript, OS X and random tech news of interest.

It's exhilarating to be part of the team! I'm looking forward to get to know everyone better, and to create something good over the summer.

Hi everyone!

Hi!

My name is Mattias Lidman, and I'm an undergrad student at the Department of Computer Science at Umeå University in Sweden.

I'll be working on the XIO Compression Driver this summer. This will be the first major project that I work on, so I'm pretty excited about it!

I've also set up a personal blog here. The primary purpose of it will be to as a semi-formal journal about my project, so check it out if you're curious about my progress!

Cheers and good luck to you all!

Hello everyone!

Hi,

My name is William Voorsluys. I'm a first year PhD student in the University of Melbourne, Australia, working in the Gridbus project.
My current research interests are grid computing and virtualization.
Prior to coming to Melbourne, I have worked for three years with grid computing in the OurGrid project, in Brazil.

This is my first participation in the Google Summer of Code. My work will be adding market-based resource management to the Globus Workspace Service, which includes some work on integrating it with OpenNebula.

Good luck for us all.

Cheers,

William.