Debian Project participates in Google's Summer of Code

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April 25th, 2007                http://www.debian.org/News/2007/20070425
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Debian Project participates in Google's Summer of Code

The Debian project is proud that it has been accepted by Google as a
mentor organisation for this year's Summer of Code program, with nine
tasks in total.  Google will fund the students mentioned below to work
full time on these tasks during their summer vacation, from May 28th
to August 20th. They will be guided and evaluated during this time by
active Debian developers.

The main focus of all the student tasks is to create or improve
utilities that assist developers working on Debian packages and the
Debian release.  Several tasks cover communication between software
authors, users and Debian developers.  A number of tasks target
quality assurance and improved testing, while others will result in
new tools that help maintain Debian systems.

In particular the following tasks and students have been accepted:

  Jeroen van Wolffelaar will implement Mole, an infrastructure for
  managing information.  This will help make Debian's vast supply of
  data easier accessible to developers and users.  Included are
  package history and release statistics.

  Ian Haken will write tools to use QEMU, a virtual machine emulator,