“Gimme your wallet!” or “Where’s Waldo?” … You choose. ;-)

Thank you to the fantastic folks at Google - especially LH, Chris, and Greg - for all your work. The Google Summer of Code program is a magnificent contribution to the open source community for which we are all profoundly thankful. Thank you to all the people and organizations who participated - both in the GSoC program and in the Mentor Summit last weekend. An especially big thanks to all the hard-working (and often under-appreciated) developers out there who contribute to open source projects. Without all of you and your hard work, the world would be a poorer place.

As a first-time GSoC mentor, I found the Mentor Summit to be invaluable. I knew before the summer ended that I had not done as good of a job as a mentor as I could have. But I didn’t have a good grasp on what, specifically, I personally and what we as a mentoring organization needed to do to improve. The Mentor Summit - especially the communication workshop facilitated by Robert Spier - greatly helped me solidify in my mind some concrete steps to take in preparation for next year’s GSoC. But that’s for another, much longer, post. Watch here for more once I get my notes cleaned up a bit.

Nice work everyone! Looking forward to GSoC 2007.