SIP Communicator And Other Tales From Google Summer of Code Adventures: Part One

Since being accepted into Google Summer of Code, in 2007, SIP Communicator has gone through many a transformations. The popularity of having seven successful students out of eight that was funded in that summer brought honor to the open source project as well as many followers like me.
In 2008 SIP Communicator had much wider acceptance both by public and the Google Summer of Code project. They were honored with 20 student projects but due to the circumstances, only 15 were selected by the project. At the end of 2008 Google Summer of Code, the team has added two permanent contributors to the project.
In 2009, the number of student applicants increased to 203 and out of those a super 10 was selected by the SIP Communicator team and they are doing great with their brains.
There are four very interesting projects (there is more to come in a second part of the post);

Growl Notifications, and Next Generation Sparkle Updates
Hush-hush Chats with Off The Record (OTR) Messaging
Storing Chat History and Contact Lists in a Database
Recognizing and displaying remote user agents

Looks like we have so much to do with SIP Communicator in the coming year.
Great Job, Google Summer of Code and the SIP Communicator team who participated!



Google Open Source Blog: SIP Communicator's Summer of Code Adventures: Part One

Asterisk At Google Summer Of Code, GSOC 2009

Asterisk GSOC
Following Student / Mentor pairs have been selected and accepted by Google Summer Of Code (GSOC) to complete their proposals. Congradulations Students, and Mentors. (The asterisk itself was accepted GSOC earlier)
You can follow their progress at Google Code. I am very sure as we all set to benefit. I will try to follow these students as the time progress.1 - 4

Student	Title	Mentor	Status
Brett Bryant	Asterisk Data Storage API	Russell Bryant	accepted
eliel sardanons	Generic data export/retrieval API.	tilghman lesher	accepted
claude patry	CLI filtering	mark michelson	accepted
Giuseppe Sucameli	Customizable Asterisk Voicemail Menu	Luigi Rizzo	accepted

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Asterisk At Google Summer Of Code 2009

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Russell Bryant has put forward an idea to involve Asterisk At the upcoming Google Summer Of Code 2009. He initially posted to the Asterisk Dev list and followed up with this blog post asking for ideas and suggestions. The Mailing list post received a lot of responses and Russell has moved the document (google-soc2009-ideas.txt) to new home (ideas.txt)
The document is already filled with programming ideas in six categories and yet open for suggestions. So just to learn of to provide input, please folle the above links. Also think about being mentors to the programmers!

The six sections are;

1. new interfaces for developers to interface with Asterisk.
2. Voicemail support in Asterisk
3. Asterisk console and logging interfaces.
4. Internationalization.
5. Operating System Portability.
6. Asterisk Security
I think it is a supper idea and certainly will promote Asterisk.

Tags: Asterisk, google summer of code, GSOC, Asterisk GSOC, Asterisk interfaces, Voicemail in Asterisk, Asterisk console, Asterisk logging interfaces, Asterisk Internationalization, OS Portability, Asterisk Security