Surrendering to temptation … again

In this season of GSoC related blog entries, I could not resist doing one myself. I signed up as a mentor again – 3rd time. I just love those T-Shirts. And in a pattern known for long to mentor organization administrators, as the last day for submission draws near – the project seems to be filling up with applications / proposals exponentially. Why oh why cannot applicants submit throughout the time window rather than waiting for the last days ?

In the happy news section I read that at least 2 of the GSoC candidates from last year (limited to the subset of the candidates I know) have turned mentors this year. Super nice.

In the this-should-have-happened-last-year news section, a fine gentleman has decided to put his hat into the ring as a mentor as well. Ideally, he should have done that last year but then he insisted that he was not ready. Eugene has blogged about his ideas here and is also looking out for applicants. So, if you are an applicant and want to work on this nifty instrumentation tool called Systemtap, you should know whom to get in touch with.

Umm…doesn’t anyone feel that ImportFiltersFromThunderbird is a good thing to do for Evolution ? Or, BackupThunderbirdProfile a good thing to do for Thunderbird ? The latter would save me the trouble of scripting it when moving machines and the former would get me to try out Evolution someday soon 🙂

View from the CCD at Mariplex Kalyaninagar – the sunlight was nice enough to come out well on a piddly mobile phone camera.