It has proven to be a very useful program to bring together students that want to get involved with the open source community and open source projects in need of new contributors.
Many open source projects - such as Kodi - have participated in GSoC for years. The idea is to get students involved in and familiar with the open source community and help them to put their summer break to good use."
Album flow view for xbmc software#
In Google's own words, " Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a global program that matches students up with open source, free software and technology-related organizations to write code and get paid to do it! The organizations provide mentors who act as guides through the entire process, from learning about the community to contributing code. We are thrilled to announced that Kodi has been accepted as a participating open source organization in Google Summer of Code 2019! What is Google Summer of Code? Its work today extends far beyond Linux, fostering innovation in every layer of the software stack, hosting projects spanning enterprise IT, embedded systems, consumer electronics, cloud, networking, and more. With more than 1000 members across the world, the Linux Foundation has taken its experience and expertise in supporting the Linux community to help establish, build, and sustain some of the most critical open source technologies. Some of its most notable work includes sponsoring the Linux creator Linus Torvalds, maintaining the Linux trademark and website and organizing the world’s leading Linux conferences where the creators, maintainers and practitioners of the most important open source projects meet. The Linux Foundation is a non-profit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux and open source in general, providing support for the open-source community through financial and intellectual resources, governance structure, IT infrastructure, services, events, and training and certification. When people cooperate and share, the project at hand and the community will always benefit. They don't know each other but they are working together, sharing ideas. Now there are two individuals working on a common problem.
Album flow view for xbmc Patch#
Two days later someone across the globe sends a patch to fix a bug or suggest an improvement. An individual shares some code thinking " meh, no one is interested in this". Innovation that would not be possible if the goals were constrained by corporate vision and allocated resources. Innovation that would not be possible if Kodi's code base was closed source. Ever since XBMP, where this project started, a small group of like-minded individuals from different backgrounds have worked together to achieve a goal, taking advantage of each other's merits and talents. That was and still is what moves Kodi forward. We strongly believe that open-source is the best way to achieve awesome things. It seemed natural for us to join, given the fact that we are strong believers in the benefits of open-source software. The Kodi Foundation is very proud to announce that it has joined the Linux Foundation as an Associate Member.