Congratulations to our GSOC 2009 students

I’m very pleased to report that our GSOC students, Andrei, Jose, Olli, Mihai and Alberto, have passed their final evaluations with flying colours! Congratulations everyone, and thanks, as always, to our mentors. We’re currently setting up test sites for several of the projects and evaluating the code for possible inclusion in HEAD. Please see GSOC/2009 [...]

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GSOC projects nearing completion

With less than a fortnight to go till the official GSOC ‘pencils down’ date (17 August 2009), our students, Andrei, Jose, Olli, Mihai and Alberto, are well on their way to completing their projects. This year, for the first time, we’ve encouraged students to keep a blog of their progress. See GSOC/2009 for blog links [...]

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GSOC students pass their mid-term evaluations

I’m very pleased to report that our GSOC students, Andrei, Jose, Olli, Mihai and Alberto, have all passed their mid-term evaluations with flying colours! Congratulations everyone, and a big thank you to our super mentors. Our students now have another month to complete their projects. After a final evaluation period, the results of GSOC 2009 [...]

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GSOC student progress – part 2

Following on from my blog entry yesterday about how our GSOC students are doing… Olli Savolainen, our usability specialist, has a Moodle Tracker meta-issue MDL-19586 for his project Moodle UI consistency improvements and has written some progressive disclosure guidelines in addition to being active in the Using Moodle forums. Mihai Sucan has been busy making [...]

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GSOC student progress – part 1

With a fortnight to go till the GSOC mid-term evaluation period, I’ve been taking a look at how some of our students are doing. Alberto J Varela has created his first patch for offline integration (MDL-19286) as part of his Google Gears integration and has described his work in his blog post First patch and [...]

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