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Google announces list of accepted projects in GSoC11

Google Summer of Code 2011

Almost 24 hours ago Google announces list of accepted projects in this year edition of Google Summer of Code program. In current edition Eclipse Foundation got 17 slots (as you may know from Wayne post). One of this slots was allocated for me (as a student) and Matthias Sohn, the project that we’ll be working is a continuation of my last year work for EGit project. The project name is “EGit Synchronize View support part 2”, if somebody is curious what this project is about you can check it on melange’s (I’ve made it public). In this proposal I want to address most important missing features in current implementation of EGit Synchronization support. If you think that something there is missing pleas let me know via mail or comments!

Apart from that I’m third time GSoC student (and that Eclipse got 17 slots!) there is another good news for me … on the list of accepted proposals in Eclipse Foundation there is 6 (six!) student’s names that looks like there are from Poland! Yeah! 1/3 of Eclipse GSoC students seams to be from Poland, this is really great information! Next great thing is that four projects are mentored by Polish mentors! Great work guys! And good luck 😉

And last but not least, as far as I know there is one other student from my university that was accepted in GSoC11. This is some kind of regression comparing to 2010 edition where there were three accepted students. Maybe in next edition this will be improved, we’ll see.

After announcement the “community bonding” time begins … but not for me since I’m quite well integrated with EGit community 😉 therefore for me the “coding period” starts today ;>

Szczecin JUG meetup – Google Guice

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I’m honored to invite every one of you to next meetup of Szczecin Java User Group. This time Kazik ‘morisil’ Pogoda will be speaking about Dependency Injection library form Google called Guice. Before getting deep into Guice he’ll explain what exactly DI is. Then we’ll dive into Guice based example application.

This is a first from a series of lectures about Dependency Injection in java by Kazik. The next one will cover Gin, dependency injection library for GWT based on Guice.

If you are interested in those topics feel free to join us 28th of April (more detailed information about time and place you can find on poster above).

A year of my contribution into EGit

Few days ago (exactly 2010-03-16) was a first anniversary of my first contribution into EGit project.  Here is my very simple first patch sent into EGit’s Gerrit. It only replaces some old type loops with for-each loop, this is how it starts … Then I implement a tagging dialog, after that Google Summer of Code 2010 comes during with I was implementing Synchronization View support … and so on.

Now when I’m looking on my ohloh account I’m quite surprised  with my contribution size. Currently it shows 127 commits and almost 18000 code lines changed.  For me those statistics are something that I can be proud of 😉

We’ll see what next year will bring ;>

Eclipse Community Awards 2011

This was a very successful day for EGit team and me at EclipseCon. Its starts from very successful tutorial on EGit by Chris Aniszczyk, Matthias Sohn, Shawn Pearce and Stefan Lay. I think that this was largest simultaneous EGit testing that we ever had ;). Some bugs ware found during this tutorial and we (as a EGit developer team) get the most important thing … a users’ feedback! and we are looking forward for more opinions and hints from you about EGit ;>.  Some of the effects of the EGit tutorial can be seen in ours’ gerrit instance 😉

Few hours after EGit Tutorial the results of Eclipse Community Award 2011 were announced … and guess what? The EGit project won in category ‘Most Innovative New Feature or Project’! This is a great success for me and others EGit developers and it is a huge motivation for continue working and improving EGit.

 

Eclipse Community Award 2011 Top ContributorAs you might know, I was nominated in ‘Top Contributor’ category, and if you looks carefully on the left hand side picture of ‘Eclipse Community Award’ statue you might notice that there is my name on it … yes I’m a ‘Top Contributor’ in 2011. This whole history with Eclipse Community Awards was a huge surprise for me, starting from nomination, ending on a moment when I was keeping this statue in my hands. I want to thank everyone for voting on EGit project and me in Eclipse Community Awards. Also I want to encourage every Eclipse committer to participate in Google Summer of Code as a menthor … who knows maybe yours feature GSoC student will also be in feature nominated in Eclipse Community Awards … you only need to give him a chance 😉

Apart form that, big thanks to Google and Eclipse Foundation for giving me opportunity to participate in EclipseCon. Without theirs support I can only dream about participating in EclipseCon. Once again, thank Google!, thank Eclipse Foundation! 😉

BTW.  Any one flying Friday morning from San Jose to Dallas (AA1252) ? ;>

I’m going on 33rd Degree Conference

The 33rd Degree is another conference in English in Poland, next to GeeCON. This year both conferences are located in Krakow.

For me choosing between GeeCON (with I was attending two times) and 33rd degree wasn’t so easy. Finally, as you can see, I’ve decided to go on 33rd Degree (same as my collages from NCDC). There was two main reasons why I’ve made such decision. First of all 33rd Degree has more lectures (there are 4 parallel tracks) and I find most of them interesting for me. Lucky the lectures I want to attend doesn’t overlap currently and I hope that this would not change ;). Secondly, as I mentioned before I was on GeeCON already I and know what can I suspect from it, the 33rd is something new I and want to give it a try 😉

So, see you on 33rd Degree! 😉