This year’s Google Summer of Code participant selection process created a situation that we’ve never encountered before: Two participants put in excellent proposals for the same project and both participants did a very good job of engaging with the community. But there was one difference between the two — one participant had engaged with us months earlier, written a whole new feature, saw it through the release process and got the feature into production.
This compelled us to accept the participant with whom we had already built a rapport. But collectively we felt really really bad about the fact that the other participant, Chinmay Kunkikar, would be rejected from Summer of Code and not work with us.
Fortunately we had recently earned 15,000GBP from our participation in the ODI Peer Learning Network 2, which we decided to spent on contributions to Open Source and musicians that our team loves. When the suggestion came up that we could create an internship on the spot that more or less follows the concept of Summer of Code, and that we could take on Chinmay and knock out yet another project during the summer, we jumped on the idea.
And with that I am pleased to announce that Chinmay will take on the “Upcoming and new releases page” project for ListenBrainz. This project will show a timeline of upcoming music releases and releases that have been recently released, complete with the ability to play these releases in the page.
Our team feels strongly about Chinmay as well as this new feature, so we’re excited that we’re taking on this 8th participant for this summer.
Welcome Chinmay!
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Such exciting projects for this year’s summer of code! I love that ListenBrainz and BookBrainz are getting so much love. Looking forward to using the features and sharing them with others.