Hi, Please join me in welcoming Janandith, who just got accepted for the GSoC program, to make the Scala language usable in Sling!
I'll be the official mentor for this project, but of course all community members are welcome to chime in, and we'll do our best to make everything happen in the open. Search for "Sling" at [1] for the initial project's description. Michael Duerig [2], our resident Scala expert at Day Software, has agreed to help with the hairy Scala-specific parts of the project - welcome Michael, I'll be counting on you for those ASCII art programming challenges [5] once Janandith gets to creating examples ;-) For more details about GSoC see the FAQ [3] and timeline [4] - the plan is for Janandith to start coding around May 26th, before that the idea is to get to know the community, get to know Sling and JCR, and work together on refining the project's goals. I guess we're flexible on the exact timeline, as long as it meets the GSoC requirements. Janandith, feel free to introduce yourself, in as much or as little detail as you see fit - we're looking forward to getting to know you better through your work here, and to a successful GSoC project! We had two other students apply for Sling-related GSoC projects, but competition was fierce between students and between hosting organizations (as some students applied to several organizations), so I'm very happy that one out of those three applications got through. The ratio within the ASF is more like 1 to 6, and about 1 to 7 overall - so congratulations to Janandith for making it! -Bertrand [1] http://code.google.com/soc/2008/asf/about.html [2] http://michid.wordpress.com/ [3] http://code.google.com/opensource/gsoc/2008/faqs.html [4] http://code.google.com/opensource/gsoc/2008/faqs.html#0.1_timeline [5] http://dev.day.com/microsling/content/blogs/main/scalajcr3.html
