Announcing the 2011 DuraSpace Google Summer of Code projects!

[Bill Branan]

The accepted students & projects for Google Summer of Code™ have been announced! (http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2011/04/students-announced-for-2011-google.html)

This year, DuraSpace is proud to be hosting six GSoC student projects, including at least one project for each of our three technologies (DSpace, Fedora and DuraCloud)! Competition was tough this year, with over 20 student applications submitted for various technology project ideas. But, these six students received high praise and approval from each of our DSpace, Fedora or DuraCloud Committer teams.

== DuraSpace GSoC Students & Projects for 2011 ==

(in alphabetical order by student's family name)

* Guarave Kejriwal
    Technology: DSpace
    Project: Submission Enhancements in DSpace
    Mentor(s): Mark Diggory, Scott Phillips

* Jiri Kremser
    Technology: Fedora
    Project: Migrate to a modern Web service library for SOAP and support MTOM
    Mentor(s): A. Soroka, a Fedora Committer TBD

* Rajender Naik
   Technology: DuraCloud
   Project: DuraCloud & Eucalyptus Integration
   Mentor(s): Bill Branan, Andrew Woods

* Vibhaj Rajan
   Technology: DSpace
   Project: New UI built over RESTful services (using Ext JS or similar)
   Mentor(s): Bojan Suzich, Mark Diggory, one or more DSpace Committers TBD

* Robert Qin Zhengquan
   Technology: DSpace
   Project: WebMVC (Freemarker) UI development
   Mentor(s): Graham Triggs, Peter Dietz, Stuart Lewis

* Yigang Zhou
   Technology: DSpace
   Project: SKOS Authority Control based on DSpace RDF TripleStore
   Mentor(s): Mark Diggory, Ryan Scherle

More information about each of these GSoC Projects can be found at:
https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/GSOC/GSoC+2011+Projects

Google Summer of Code officially begins on May 24th! Until then, our mentors and students should take the next few weeks to get to know one another, and where possible begin to flesh out more of their GSoC project plans.  See the GSoC Timeline at: http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2011

If you are interested in providing ongoing feedback to our GSoC projects, or wish to receive more frequent updates, you should join our public 'duraspace-gsoc' listserv: http://groups.google.com/group/duraspace-gsoc/

Again, congratulations to all the students accepted into this year's Google Summer of Code!  We look forward to working with you this summer!