For the second year straight, Pardus has been a Google Summer of Code mentoring organization. This year a total of 6 Pardus projects have been approved and as a change we have 4 non-Turkish-speaking students.

The students and their projects / mentors are as folows:

• Ezgi Çiçek OpenOffice.org Turkish Grammar Support / Gökçen Eraslan
• Mehmet Ali Akmanalp Fingerprint Authentication Support / Gökmen Göksel
• Rohan Anil PAM Face Authentication / Onur Küçük
• Sarath Lakshman Web-based Image Creation Tool for Pardus / Ekin Meroğlu
• Marcin Kurczych Pulseaudio Manager for KDE4 / Ozan Çağlayan
• Caio Nascimento Bug Reporting Tool for KDE4 / Pınar Yanardağ

One important observation is that only one of this year’s projects is Pardus specific and 4 of them will likely to have their place in upstream KDE.

Congratulations to all accepted students, and “Happy hacking”…