Re: [xwiki-devs] Welcoming our GSoC students

Hi and Congratulations to all that were selected. It was a very tough process since we had really great applications and candidates and not that many slots. We are however highly greatful to Google for having XWiki a Summer of Code participant since the program started. We had many good proposals which did not make it in the short list and projects we would love to see in XWiki. For the students that have done such good like Anthony Rosequist, Ancuta gheorghe, Chathura Ganegoda, Keerthan Muthurasa, Karel Piwko, Tharindu Madushanka, Udai Gupta

We would have loved to have you as students and transfer as much as we can about Open Source. Continue your involvement and passion and it will pay off. There is not surprise that Ancuta, Tharindu and Keerthan express interest in working on their project although it was not selected. It really shows that we had a great candidate list. We even considered financing some of the projects through XWiki SAS but unfortunately we don't have the possibility to do that at this point. I hope XWiki SAS will be able to run our own programs at one point. One a side note if some companies would like to finance some student projects that they would like to see in XWiki, please don't hesitate to talk with us.

This is also my first year personnaly at not being a mentor. I enjoyed a lot last year working with Asiri and it was a great success with great results. The project list matched other mentors much better and my time is less permitting anyway. I will always be available if you need help on areas that I know well. Don't hesitate to get me in the conversation. I enjoy transmitting to students what I know and like about Open Source and development. Good luck for your projects. I'm eager to see the results in XWiki.