Welcome interns!

[Marina Zhurakhinskaya <marinaz redhat com>]

Hi all,

On Monday GNOME accepted 29 Google Summer of Code interns and 10 Outreach Program for Women interns! All the interns made a contribution to the project they were applying to work on and almost all were connected to their mentors during the application process. We are thrilled to have these talented and dedicated contributors have a chance to spend the whole summer working on GNOME! Thanks to Google, Mozilla, Collabora, Red Hat, the Free Software Foundation, and the GNOME Foundation for making these internships possible!

Thank you to all the mentors who helped the applicants along the way and will guide the participants this summer! Everyone, please help out mentors from your project by also helping the participants when possible.

Because we are closing the 3.6 feature proposal period, it would be great if mentors consider proposing the planned work as a 3.6 feature. If your intern’s proposal is about a well-defined user-visible feature, the student is an experienced GNOME contributor, and/or you are dedicated to spend part of your time working on the feature, please propose it for 3.6.

Below, is the list of all the interns’ projects. The ones without a link are OPW projects. The interns will blog about their work on Planet GNOME throughout the summer.

Thanks to everyone and welcome to the interns!
Marina, on behalf of GSoC and OPW admins

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= GNOME Shell =

Tanner Doshier - Smarter Searching in GNOME Shell - Rui Matos
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2012/doshitan/18001

Joost Verdoorn - Overhaul the Applications View - Florian Müllner
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2012/joost/10001

Giovanni Campagna - GNOME Shell Lock Screen - Marina Zhurakhinskaya
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2012/gcampax/16001

Ana Risteska - GNOME Shell Message Tray Improvements - Marina Zhurakhinskaya

= GNOME Core Applications =

Felipe Borges - Documents: Removable devices support - Cosimo Cecchi
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2012/felipeborges/6001

Meg Ford - GNOME Documents UIs for Viewing and Editing of File Metadata - Cosimo Cecchi
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2012/m_22/18001

Anna Zacchi - GNOME Documents - Cosimo Cecchi

Fabiano Fidêncio  - libosinfo-based express installation for major OSs - Zeeshan Ali Khattak
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2012/fidencio/41002

Jovanka Gulicoska - Ability to save and load virtual machine boxes - Zeeshan Ali Khattak
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2012/jovanka_g/35002

William Ting - GNOME - Epiphany Browser Synchronization - Xan López
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2012/wting/8001

Yann Soubeyrand - Add synchronization to Epiphany, the GNOME web browser - Xan López
(Yann will work on synchronization along with William, or Xan will discuss other possible tasks with him.)
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2012/yann_soubeyrand/11001

Emily Gonyer - GNOME CLock - Seif Lotfy
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2012/gonyere/19001

Gopal Krishnan - Proposal to upgrade the UI of Gcalctool - Robert Ancell
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2012/gopal_krishnan/11001

Arth Patel - Replace lex-bison based parser with handwritten parser in gcalctool - Robert Ancell
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2012/arthp91/35002

Chris Baines - Completion of the Gnome Sudoku Vala Port - Thomas Andersen
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2012/cbaines/19002

= GNOME Technologies =

Laurent Contzen - Creation of a new library providing models and widgets to display and choose contacts - Guillaume Desmottes
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2012/lcontzen/13001

Richard Schwarting - GXml and GObject Serialisation - Alberto Ruiz
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2012/aquarichy/34003

Rūdolfs Mazurs - Lockdown editor - Ryan Lortie
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2012/trz/11001

Žan Doberšek - Support for Gamepad API in WebKitGTK+ and general gamepad configuration options in System Settings - Carlos Garcia Campos
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2012/zdobersek/13001

Fabien Parent - Development of a graphical profiler for GNOME - Dodji Seketeli
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2012/fabienp/21002

Riko Yamada - GUPnP - Jens Georg

= Other Applications =

Udesh Liyanaarachchi - Voice Control For Banshee - Alexander Kojevnikov
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2012/udesh/50002

Timo Dörr - Improve overall Mac OS X port of Banshee - Olivier Dufour
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2012/dynalon/12001

Moritz Lüdecke - Helping on anjuta mades everybody happy - Johannes Schmid
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2012/ritze/8001

Stefano Candori - Revamp of the Activity Journal - Thorsten Prante
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2012/cando/26001

Izidor Matušov - Collaborative Getting Things GNOME! - Lionel Dricot
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2012/iyo/40003

Steve Scheel - Refactor and Rework the Task Editor of Getting Things Gnome - Luca Invernizzi
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2012/sscheel/21002

Baptiste Saleil - Integrate GTG to Gnome-Shell - Luca Invernizzi
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2012/bsaleil/24002

Beth Hadley - Activity Development for GCompris, especially Music Education - Bruno Coudoin
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2012/bhadley/19001

Matilda Bernard - Integration of multiple theme based activities in the existing GCompris suite - Bruno Coudoin
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2012/matildabernard/8001

Valentín Barros Puertas - Get an useful state to Shotwell Faces tool - Adam Dingle
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2012/sativa/31002

Ngewi Fet - GNUcash Android Application - Muslim Chochlov
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2012/ngewif/17001

= Developer Documentation =

Marta Maria Casetti - Developer Documentation for Python - Tiffany Antopolski

Taryn Fox - Developer Documentation for JavaScript - Tiffany Antopolski

Monica Kochofar - Developer Documentation for C - Tiffany Antopolski

= Documentation =

Radina Matic - Documentation - Tiffany Antopolski and Bertrand Rousseau

= Design =

Barbara Muraus - Graphic Design - Jakub Steiner

Fabiana Pedreira Simões - User Experience Design - Allan Day

= Web Development =

Elena Petrevska - Web Development - Christy Eller and Andreas Nilsson