Internship Recieved, Gsoc Shirt Finally Arrives, School Interview, MeMaker

Boy, oh so much goodness all in one post!

I got my internship with pculture the guys that make Miro. A internet TV application. Pretty cool to be a part of their work for a while. I have big plans while there. But I will leave that all up for a suprise. They are looking for 2 or 3 more people. You wanna come work for them? Even if you don’t want to do an internship, if your a student they can make efforts to give you school credits for your work too. Including official recognition for your work. There are a lot things you can get besides money for your internship. You can come to boston, or jsut chill at home. You pick. I personally will be flying to Worcester MA with my family. It’s expensive, but I want to really get an education out of all this. Including an office setting and to work with other open source developers. Something I don’t get much of here.

My shirt finally arrived from Google summer of code. It’s sad, but so much money is “stolen” from google when they ship these things. There has even been rumor of students lieing and saying that they never got the shirt, just to get another. Jerks. We are adults now you know. >:( Best of all with the shipment was a paper showing I passed the program. When I have a bajillion dollar business I will have that framed in my office. I learned so much from this program. However, some things were not that great, I felt ignored in a way from aspects of the Ubuntu community. Understandable really, there are a lot cooler things to work on then PyStart. Even though, I did learn a lot, was able to make some great friends and even start another successful project. MeMaker. More on that later.

My school has chosen I and a friend to come to the school to be interviewed, so to say. It is to diterming the “best University of Applied Sciences in finland” Funny really, cause they might get alot of rat for my feeling about them using only MS products.

Lastly, MeMaker has made some great progress.  It is now to the point we are not adding any new features until it is at a stable state.  Then we start clean with a new revision set and work towards a 2.0 release.  It is getting a little faster and a little smaller all the time because of all this code refactoring that has been going on.  For example, I am looking for repeated code and seeing if I can make it work by running that code once.  You would beleive how much a little program like memaker can improve.  We are getting memaker in ubuntu!  That means that in the next release anyone can easily install memaker with a simple command… sudo apt-get install memaker.  How exciting! If you would like to package memaker for debian, we are looking for someone.  Please give me a shot and we can make arrangements.  You can learn more about memaker here… http://memaker.org That reminds me, we need someone to help maintain a website.