"Ciao" / "Grüezi" / "Hola" / Hello! I am excited with my first world-wide open source project so trying to greeting in many languages! Firstly, let me introduce myself, I am Robert (Robertus Harmawan Johansyah for full name). About the project, I am contributing for GFX library in DOJO Toolkit, 3 dimension graphics in web is getting hot at the moment so we shall not let DOJO be getting behind!

Hello Planet Dojo! I'm Jeff Balogh, and I'm doing doing a Google Summer of Code
project for Dojo this summer. I'm an undergrad at the University of Central
Florida, with one more semester to go. I'm living in Toronto this summer and
working with the DrProject folks, so drop me a line if you're in the area. :)

Applications, ideas, and questions about Summer of Code have been coming thick and fast into Dojo over the past couple of weeks. We've got some very promising and well thought-out proposals from smart students, but we want more!

Google has just announced that the deadline for applications has been extended until April 7. So if you've been thinking about SoC but been too busy for whatever reason, now's your chance...

Dojo has today been officially selected as a mentor organisation for the 2008 Google Summer of Code.

Google is again running the Summer of Code programme in 2008, and Dojo is gearing up to participate. Over the past three years, Google has spent millions of dollars to pay over 1500 talented individuals to work on open source software projects. At Dojo we have some big goals for this year, and right now we're starting to look for students, mentors, and project ideas.

Google Summer of Code has officially begun. I have asked questions of both mentors and students and have gotten responses from many of them. I'll be posting quick write-ups for these projects. I'll also start setting up accounts for the students so they'll be able to post to this blog as things progress.

Bernado asks: "Could you give us some feedback on the final amount of applications received and what you thought of them?"

For those of you that don't know how Google's site allows us to rank projects, each of the possible mentors can give a vote between -2 and 4.

We received 17 applications. 5 of those weren't up to the standard set by the other applications and received a negative amount of votes. 5 of the other applications were relatively strong and received under 10 votes. Of the remaining 7 applications that scored 10 or more points, one of them was from the same student (which is fine, we just can't accept both) and one of them decided to accept mentorship by another organization. So we ended up with 5 pretty strong, usable applications. One of the ActiveX canvas tag projects was the 5th submission, which was narrowly edged out, probably due to concerns over ActiveX that weren't completely handled in the proposal.

We asked for 4 projects, and we got 4 projects. They are: 3d dojo.gfx library, dojo.data.Overdrive, statistical analysis package, and 3d charting. I'll be posting some profiles of the projects, mentors, and students over the next few days, along with some tales of how we ended up with these 4 projects. It should be fun!

In case you missed it, the Summer of Code deadline has been extended until noon (EST) on the 27th. Last chance!

Well, guys, the deadline is fast approaching. Right now we 6 applications, and they look excellent. I felt last year that we weren't sure what we were getting ourselves into. I didn't really know too much about the students when we were voting for the projects we were going to accept. Then again, last year, I wasn't helping organize it. It has me a little excited, really, that we can probably push out some great work this year. If you are planning on participating, you have to get your application in now.

Once applications are in, and I have everyone's permission, I'll update you on the people that have applied and probably fill you in on some of the internal debate we have on which projects to accept. Should be fun.