Planet SoC

So Google Summer of Code.

Its been fun, I can’t believe it is the end.
I should have really written more code, but my plan involves being involved on my project for quite a while yet.
But then it is a from scratch project, and had to rewrite the core three times.

Luckily it is now flexible enough to work properly.

I am doing the new PHP bugtracker, it currently has basic functionality, and it maybe ‘pens down’ on Monday, me I am gonna keep going and committing, as this bug tracker needs finishing.

Alas I have lost tonight to having to fill in for a friend at work, but then tomorrow its all code, assumed my 360 doesnt distract me, we shall see.

Hopefully by this time tomorrow, we shall have a lot more done, which was the plan today, but some house things got in the way and now its on to nearly time to go to work, (its work in a bar hence UK evening time).

So yes, lots to do, but time is no object, as the Key Part of GSoC is getting you/me/us involved with open source software now and forever, and learning the skills we will need in order to compete in the world of our chosen industry, I was reading the news article on linux.com someone posted to the GSoC mailing list, and it talked about the skills we learn, and how it can be applied in so many different ways in the industry.

And I am talking not just the computer industry.

Skills like the ability to work in a decentralized fashion, with head office being in a different timezone, for example.
Thats my favourite one.

FOSS people like ourseleves are the best people in the world, we have the skills and the drive and, most importantly, the adaptability to do anything with what we know, and, for the most part, the ability to learn new methods, processes and, if your like me, (computer) languages.

The future maybe closed source companies, but people like us make those companies……

MS may not have been open source in the beginning, but where do most of their poeple come from now.
Same with Google, but on a different level, as they are passionate about what they do.

Anyway I have rambled enough.

The future is us.

Many thanks to Google and my Organisation for the opportunity to work, this has been fun and I look forward to talking to you all next year and if not before.

You can find me, at the PHP project, and at the phpBB project….