They say so. :)

Time to unsubscribe from the git list and append #git to activity_hide_targets. ;/

A list of (AFAIK) all Hungarian students:

Istvan Szakats Kornél Lugosi Balazs Dianiska Geza Kovacs Gabor Kovesdan gabor janos pali Tamás Sallai Gergely Patai Kornél Pál Miklos Erdelyi Peter Somlo Miklos Vajna Viktor Gal.

So now we are 13, it's interesting because AFAIK we were only 6 last year, when more students were accepted in general. ;)

Update:

I missed two of them:

tom ilsinszki gergo erdosi

So today was the deadline, I posted this. (IIRC I linked it once already in this blog but it was updated since then.) This year proposals can't be updated after the deadline, so it doesn't matter if it will be accepted or not, this is the final version. ;)

I just finished writing up this. It seems it's long - it took a lot of time to write it as well. And probably this is not the final version, either...

And I resend my earlier cosmetics series to the git list.

Sleeping time.

They just announced the list of accepted orgs for gsoc 2k9, I'm happy to see that SWIG is accepted as well - they have an interesting PHP project.

The mentor who is interested in the project lives in GMT+13, so I have to try contacting him later today...

The GSoC student list is not public, and to be honest, usually it's boring. In most cases you just want to read the mails matching ^From:.*google.com, and just delete the remaining junk. However, there was a funny thread there, about how others deal with the usual problem: if you want to describe others (read: who is not a geek) what do you do (hack PaX, rewrite git-merge, etc.) you probably need a half an hour. Or maybe it's better not describing your job at all. Let's see some funny quotes:

The "I gave up" one:

After the first 10 fails, I decided to say the following as fast as I can: Me: "I am doing "something" and Google is paying me to do it. I don't know why they are, but I assume its' because they aren't evil and stuff. End of story". Other: Oh. (Coding resumes)

BTW, the guy adds vim support to anjuta. :)

If you have nice friends, you'll get:

People who don't understand usually state as much, followed by, "...but if Google is paying you, that's pretty neat."

The "involved" one:

Unfortunately, I end up rambling for twenty-plus minutes and they are sorry they ever asked...

The "practical" one:

In my case, everyone in my university thinks it is an intern program so they ask me when I am going to travel. I have memorized the response.

The "religious":

I spent about twenty minutes explaining to a reporter from business week the finer points of open source vs free software.

And the typo kign:

> thanks very much gays ...... > GUYS .... really, I was miss typed ... now, again. Thanks very much GUYS

(I hope this post does not count as a leak, though. :P)

in this mailing list post, the recent gsoc podcast is linked, which is actually about git. two times my project is explained as well, about 11m14s and about 26m09s.

it's usually hard to describe to people what i'm doing in my project, maybe this'll help a bit? :)

ok, this is now official, i got paid for working on the C rewrite of git-merge during the summer ;)

just for fun, i collected some other projects with Hungarian students: samba, e17, freebsd, genmapp, xorg, drupal.