SoC Reflections
Jeff Dlouhy - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 at 12:16 AM
Summer of Code officially ended on August 20th, so I thought I would write a post that summarized my experiences with Camino and SoC. Better late then never, eh?
The Mozilla Foundation
My goal for the summer was to hack on Objective-C code. There are not many options out there for summer work as far as Cocoa goes, so I applied to Google for an internship as well as for Summer of Code. The first time I looked at the mentoring organizations, the only Cocoa related program I saw was Adium.
I knew that having only one proposal did not have good odds at getting accepted, so I started to seek other organizations that might be Mac-related. There was VLC which had a request out for someone to improve their Mac integration. That however required greater knowledge of C and video codecs than I possessed (and my beard is not quite long enough yet). So, luckily a few days before the deadline I put two and two together and remembered that Camino was a part of The Mozilla Foundation (insert stupid joke here). I checked their ideas for possible projects and was really excited about the Tabsposé request. I then wrote my proposal for Tabsposé as well as another one for Applescript (to better my chances) and then hit the submit button.