The 2008 Google Summer of Code: some Exciting Projects


	The 2008 Google Summer of Code: some Exciting Projects
Djiezes
5-21-2008 1:47 PM
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/1f1e08f6-d58a-4539-98ae-01f6be6b4399/0BBB3FB2-5ED9-4232-908D-3394C8530D78/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/2008_google_summer_code_21_projects_im_excited_about" href="http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/2008_google_summer_code_21_projects_im_excited_about" style="font-size: 11px;">www.freesoftwaremagazine.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/2008_google_summer_code_21_projects_im_excited_about"><H1 class="title"><A href="http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/2008_google_summer_code_21_projects_im_excited_about">The 2008 Google Summer of Code: 21 Projects I'm Excited About</A></H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/2008_google_summer_code_21_projects_im_excited_about"> a <A href="http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2008/Aptitude-gtk">GTK+ GUI for Aptitude</A>.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/2008_google_summer_code_21_projects_im_excited_about"> <A href="http://code.google.com/soc/2008/enlightenment/appinfo.html?csaid=17C1AC5E7790A927">porting the Ewl and Etk libraries to the Win32 platform</A>.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/2008_google_summer_code_21_projects_im_excited_about"><A href="http://code.google.com/soc/2008/gnu/appinfo.html?csaid=45E49755924C0F5C">going to add a GUI to the upcoming GRUB 2</A>. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; 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