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2009 GSoC projects

We had 5 projects this year, all successful.

Version support for Sugar data store / Journal

Student: Sascha Silbe (Germany)

Mentor: Jameson Quinn (Mexico/ Guatemala)

Original proposal: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Version_support_for_datastore/Proposal

Results (with links to bugs, patches, and code): http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Version_support_for_datastore/Results

Google code tarball: http://google-summer-of-code-2009-sugar-labs.googlecode.com/files/Sascha_Silbe.tar.gz

Webified (Single-site offline browser creator for Sugar)

Student: Lucian Branescu Mihaila (UK / Romania)

Mentor: Walter Bender (US)

Original proposal http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Webified

Google code tarball: http://google-summer-of-code-2009-sugar-labs.googlecode.com/files/lucian_branescumihaila.tar.gz

Karma (HTML5 educational activity framework)

Student: Felipe Lopez Toledo (Mexico)

Mentor: Bryan Berry (Nepal)

Original proposal: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Karma/application

Results: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/GSoC#Karma , also related slideshow at http://www.slideshare.net/bryanwb/html5-js-the-future-of-open-education

Print support

Student: Vamsi Krishna Davuluri (India)

Mentor: Andres Ambrois (Uruguay)

Original proposal: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Print_Support

Results: https://materializingsweetness.wordpress.com/

Decentralized Asynchronous Collision-free Editing with Groupthink

Student: Benjamin Schwartz (US)

Mentor: Assim Deodia (US?)

Original proposal: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Summer_of_Code/2009/Groupthink

Results: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/GSoC#Groupthink