OSUOSL will be mentoring three students in this summer's GSoC. We are currently in the "community bonding" period, and we are eagerly awaiting May 26th when the coding will commence! Our students are all very promising and we hope for this to be a very successful summer.

This year's projects include:

FOSSology -- Kurt Maier will be working to create code dependency analysis for the FOSSology project. This will be an agent which scans through source code and autoconf files for a given package and report back the code dependancies found within.

Helix Producer -- Arup Chakraborty will be developing a G.729 codec for Helix Producer.

Unify -- Luis Francisco Araujo Camarillo will be working on Unify helping to create a framework for creating software packages for multiple Linux distributions as well as for Solaris.

We are happy to announce that the OSUOSL has been accepted to participate in this year's Google Summer of Code program. This will be the third year we are participating, and we are hoping it will be an even greater success than last year.

Are you a student who would like to get paid to work on Open Source Software? Google will pay $4500 to each applicant who successfully works with an approved organization (OSUOSL is one of them) on an Open Source project!

As of Monday, March 24th, Google is accepting student applications to participate in Summer of Code (SoC). If you are a student interested in participating, we'd love to have you work on one of our projects. You can read a list of our project ideas here -- http://dokuwiki.osuosl.org/soc/ideas We are happy to answer any questions you may have, just come by #osuosl on irc.freenode.net. If you have any ideas that aren't listed, we may be interested in those as well; feel free to drop by our IRC channel to discuss it with us.

If you'd like more information about the SoC program, check out the official FAQs: http://code.google.com/opensource/gsoc/2008/faqs.html

To apply, go to: http://code.google.com/soc/2008/

The FOSSBazaar community site and the FOSSology project are now being hosted at the Open Source Lab.

FOSSBazaar provides information regarding many topics involving Open Source Software including IP issues, Licensing, Security, Support options, and much more. The site aims to provide a gathering place to discuss, explore, share experiences, and cooperatively solve issues related to FOSS governance.

The FOSSology project analyzes source code to quickly report on what licenses are being used by a certain project. It can be extended to scan and analyze other data inside of source code such as code re-use, security alerts and bug fixes. The OSUOSL is hosting the FOSSology web site and email as well as a local installation of the FOSSology software.

We are happy to announce the Open Source Lab is now hosting the main infrastructure for the Linux Foundation.

The Linux Foundation promotes, protects, and standardizes Linux. To achieve these tasks, the LF provides legal services to Linux developers, collaborates on the Linux Standards Base (LSB), hosts events for the Linux community, and responds in the press to competitors' attacks on Linux. The OSL hosts the Linux Foundation's infrastructure including web sites, email, and development machines.

Oregon State University Open Source Lab has begun a new Drupal training program aimed at OSU faculty and staff. Drupal has already been deployed by Central Web Services for many departments on campus, and we hope that by providing Author and Administrator training we will help other departments on campus adopt Drupal as the content management system for their web sites.

More information about the OSUOSL Drupal Training can be found on our Drupal Training Page.

The training sessions are available to OSU faculty and staff, but anyone can download and use the training materials. Currently, only the Author Training is complete, but check back soon for more information on the Administrator Training.

OSU Faculty and Staff can sign up now for the training.