Google Summer of Code

This year I was a mentor for the Google Summer of Code (GSoC), specifically the Git organisation. It was a really good experience, and I'm keen to do it again next year.

Right now, I'm at the GSoC mentor summit, sitting in the Tunis tech talk room of Building 43 at Google's Mountain View campus. There's a lot of really big nerds here: there's a few people sitting nearby discussing optimal Huffman coding for audio and video compression, and small groups scattered all over Building 43 discussing other similarly technical topics.

We've been discussing a lot of topics to do with open source, using an Unconference-style system. I led/motivated/moderated a discussion session this morning about distributed version control (fitting for a git representative, of course!), and even though it was only 45 minutes we covered a lot of ground. We're going to have a session tomorrow that is specifically about converting project's source code archives to git.