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Six Django projects accepted into Google Summer of Code

37 points by naish 18y ago

jerryji 18y ago
But not the Pylons project [ http://www.pylonshq.com/ http://www.pylonshq.com/ ] (Ref: http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss/msg/6b9bb138da906733 http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss/msg/6b9bb138da... )? What is GSoC, the American Idol popularity contest?
- peregrine 18y ago
  Can't support all open source projects. Django clearly has the momentum that the others don't.
  - mapleoin 18y ago
    That has nothing to do with it. There are specific guidelines for accepting a specific organization based on their proposal, their community, their willingness and ability to become involved with the students. The organization also has to apply.
- deleted 18y ago
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- jacobian 18y ago
  A number of smaller Python-based projects were denied, but the Python Software Foundation was pretty generous in accepting projects that are using Python rather than working on Python itself. If you check out http://socghop.appspot.com/org/home/google/gsoc2009/python http://socghop.appspot.com/org/home/google/gsoc2009/python you'll see that Sphinx, PySoy, NumPy, and others are getting work done under the PSF umbrella, instead of under each specific project's leadership. I think things were done this way to reduce organizational overhead, but now I'm just speculating.
csytan 18y ago
I'm excited to see that someone is working on a high level database API. This will be very useful for hooking up non traditional databases like bigtable or couchDB.
- jokull 18y ago
  I don't think they're going to do any more abstraction. What you'll be able to do is query quickly in another database. So for example build a web app with access to the company's legacy accounts database or something. No abstractions over schema free DB's.
  - intranation 18y ago
    Django already does this quite well: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/legacy-databases/ http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/legacy-databases/ So it's hopefully something else.
btw0 18y ago
I guess it's the GSOC students/mentors who are upvoting this news.
mapleoin 18y ago
why is Django at GSOC news and not any of the other 149 organizations? or any of the other 994 accepted projects?

37 points by naish 18y ago

But not the Pylons project [ http://www.pylonshq.com/ http://www.pylonshq.com/ ] (Ref: http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss/msg/6b9bb138da906733 http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss/msg/6b9bb138da... )? What is GSoC, the American Idol popularity contest?

peregrine 18y ago
Can't support all open source projects. Django clearly has the momentum that the others don't.
- mapleoin 18y ago
  That has nothing to do with it. There are specific guidelines for accepting a specific organization based on their proposal, their community, their willingness and ability to become involved with the students. The organization also has to apply.
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jacobian 18y ago
A number of smaller Python-based projects were denied, but the Python Software Foundation was pretty generous in accepting projects that are using Python rather than working on Python itself. If you check out http://socghop.appspot.com/org/home/google/gsoc2009/python http://socghop.appspot.com/org/home/google/gsoc2009/python you'll see that Sphinx, PySoy, NumPy, and others are getting work done under the PSF umbrella, instead of under each specific project's leadership. I think things were done this way to reduce organizational overhead, but now I'm just speculating.

csytan 18y ago

I'm excited to see that someone is working on a high level database API. This will be very useful for hooking up non traditional databases like bigtable or couchDB.

jokull 18y ago
I don't think they're going to do any more abstraction. What you'll be able to do is query quickly in another database. So for example build a web app with access to the company's legacy accounts database or something. No abstractions over schema free DB's.
- intranation 18y ago
  Django already does this quite well: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/legacy-databases/ http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/legacy-databases/ So it's hopefully something else.

btw0 18y ago

I guess it's the GSOC students/mentors who are upvoting this news.

mapleoin 18y ago

why is Django at GSOC news and not any of the other 149 organizations? or any of the other 994 accepted projects?