Category: Summer of Code

We’ve been accepted for Summer of Code! Interested students: Start at our ideas page or come up with your own idea!

The Summer of Code application process has just begun and we’re soliciting feedback on what projects we should suggest to students this year. Please take a look at our Summer of Code Ideas page and add your ideas if its not already there.

Thanks!

Jamie McDonald has continued his Summer of Code work and has submitted the first version of the MusicBrainz app to the Android Market! If you would like to be able to look up releases by barcode, search for artists and rate/tag data in MusicBrainz, this app is for you:

MusicBrainz App in the Android Market!

I’ve already used this application in a number of social situations where someone wanted to know some music info and I was able to look it up very quickly. Its quite handy! Also, an iPhone version is still in the works.

Thanks very much for your continued work on this project, Jamie!

First, many apologies to our Google Summer of Code students for not posting about which projects we had accepted for this summer. The NGS release took an amazing amount of time and I’m finally getting on top of the backlog of things to catch up on.

Now on to introduce the projects for this year:

Eliza Gebow (Batsy) has been accepted to hack on Embeddable Widgets that will allow anyone to embed a MusicBrainz widget into their site/blog/whatever that will dynamically display MusicBrainz information about artists, releases, recordings and possible works if there is enough time. You can follow Eliza’s progress on her blog.

Ian McEwen (ianmcorvidae) has already been madly hacking on improving our timeline and statistics pages. The goal of the project is to provide MusicBrainz users with a comprehensive tool for examining the growth of the MusicBrainz data and to understand how changes in MusicBrainz features and policy affect our database. Follow
Ian’s progress on his blog.

Last, but not least, Michael Wiencek (bitmap) is spending his time this summer hacking on Picard. First Micheal is focusing to make Picard ready for the NGS site — as we were developing NGS we didn’t have the resources to make Picard ready for NGS. Michael is fixing this and adding some new features to Picard as well. Michael has overcome his dislike for blog and you can follow his progress on his blog.

Most amazingly, both Ian and Michael have already shipped working code as part of their GSoC work. Ian’s bare bones timeline is now live on the NGS site and Michael has already released a new beta version of Picard. Amazing stuff — please keep up the good work!

The title just about says it all! Once again we’re in good company!

Google’s Summer of Code program is starting up for 2011 and we’ve applied to be part of it again. If you have any ideas for projects that Summer of Code students should tackle for MusicBrainz, please head over the the Summer of Code ideas page and add your idea!

I hope we get to participate again — last year was productive and fun!

Google Summer of Code is nearly over and the Android app is coming along nicely. If you want to download and try the application, here is a QR code for you:

Once we’re done with debugging the application we will release it to the Market.

I’m proud to announce that we’ve been accepted to Google’s Summer of Code program again!

If you’re a student who is interested in participating in Summer of Code and would like to apply to work on a MusicBrainz related project, review our ideas page first. Then review the information we’ll be asking for on our Organization page for GSoc.

On March 29, the student application period starts. If you are thinking of applying, start the process now — getting to know the community and community review take a bit of time to complete, so don’t delay!

Good luck to applying students!

Apparently we’ve all made another trip around the sun, because Google’s Summer of Code starts off again today. We’ve applied to be a participating organization again and we’ve put together our ideas page. This page lists the ideas we have for what students can work on over the summer.

However, we find that students who bring their own ideas and inspiration tend to work out better in the program. So, if you are a MusicBrainz fan and you are a current university student who can program, you should consider participating. You’ll need to make sure qualify by Google’s rules.

If you do qualify, can program, and are interested but you’re unsure where to go next, please come visit us in the #musicbrainz channel on irc.freenode.net. We can help you take your ideas and shape them into something that would be workable for a summer project.