Summer of Code
Google have gone ahead and made some fairly large pledges to GNOME today. There are some that I think are well worth the money. In particular $4500 to reduce the initial login time (anything like this is great), Gmail-style threads in Evolution and a Search Party plugin for Firefox.
The Search Party plugin seems quite interesting to me—for example, I was searching for “deer park ubuntu” this morning after Alpha 1 was released of the upcoming Firefox 1.1 browser. Unfortunately I could find no releases for Debian or Ubuntu. Maybe with this search party plugin somebody would have struck gold and shared the rewards, or, somebody might have turned around and said “I’ll make a .deb file, you guys can have it when I’m done”.
Check out the full list at www.gnome.org/bounties/Google.html
Tags: Linux