SIP Communicator And More Tales (Plus Lessons) From Google Summer of Code Adventures

Emil Ivov, of SIP Communicator and GSoC (Google Summer Of Code) Mentor continues his quest to enlighten us about GSoC projects based on SIP Communicator with the second part, I think mistakenly marked as part one. We spoke about the first part in SIP Communicator And Other Tales From Google Summer of Code Adventures: Part One.

Emil lists three more projects, Geek Communicator, "Dude, checkout my photo!", and DTMF with RTP which were focused on console based SIP Communicator, Settiong your own Avatar and providing an alternative transport for DTMF tones in audio RTP streams respectively. They were all very important projects as the ones we mentioned earlier. I particularly liked the Geek Communicator as most of the time I end up working on consoles only
But what what caught my attention most were the lessons learned through mentoring projects.
If you are thinking of being a mentor, or a GSoC student member, there are some very valuable gems. Read it bookmark it or do what ever you do with a good post.

Google Open Source Blog: SIP Communicator's Summer of Code Adventures: Part One

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SIP Communicator And Other Tales From Google Summer of Code Adventures: Part One

Since being accepted into Google Summer of Code, in 2007, SIP Communicator has gone through many a transformations. The popularity of having seven successful students out of eight that was funded in that summer brought honor to the open source project as well as many followers like me.
In 2008 SIP Communicator had much wider acceptance both by public and the Google Summer of Code project. They were honored with 20 student projects but due to the circumstances, only 15 were selected by the project. At the end of 2008 Google Summer of Code, the team has added two permanent contributors to the project.
In 2009, the number of student applicants increased to 203 and out of those a super 10 was selected by the SIP Communicator team and they are doing great with their brains.
There are four very interesting projects (there is more to come in a second part of the post);

Growl Notifications, and Next Generation Sparkle Updates
Hush-hush Chats with Off The Record (OTR) Messaging
Storing Chat History and Contact Lists in a Database
Recognizing and displaying remote user agents

Looks like we have so much to do with SIP Communicator in the coming year.
Great Job, Google Summer of Code and the SIP Communicator team who participated!



Google Open Source Blog: SIP Communicator's Summer of Code Adventures: Part One