Month: May 2022

This year’s Google Summer of Code participant selection process created a situation that we’ve never encountered before: Two participants put in excellent proposals for the same project and both participants did a very good job of engaging with the community. But there was one difference between the two — one participant had engaged with us months earlier, written a whole new feature, saw it through the release process and got the feature into production.

This compelled us to accept the participant with whom we had already built a rapport. But collectively we felt really really bad about the fact that the other participant, Chinmay Kunkikar, would be rejected from Summer of Code and not work with us.

Fortunately we had recently earned 15,000GBP from our participation in the ODI Peer Learning Network 2, which we decided to spent on contributions to Open Source and musicians that our team loves. When the suggestion came up that we could create an internship on the spot that more or less follows the concept of Summer of Code, and that we could take on Chinmay and knock out yet another project during the summer, we jumped on the idea.

And with that I am pleased to announce that Chinmay will take on the “Upcoming and new releases page” project for ListenBrainz. This project will show a timeline of upcoming music releases and releases that have been recently released, complete with the ability to play these releases in the page.

Our team feels strongly about Chinmay as well as this new feature, so we’re excited that we’re taking on this 8th participant for this summer.

Welcome Chinmay!

Thank you to everyone who submitted a proposal to MetaBrainz for this year’s Summer of Code!

This year, we have selected seven projects. The chosen students and projects are:

Ansh Goyal – BookBrainz and CritiqueBrainz: CritiqueBrainz reviews for BookBrainz entities

Ashutosh Aswal – MusicBrainz Android App: Adding BrainzPlayer in Android App

Prathamesh Ghatole – ListenBrainz: Clean Up The Music Listening Histories Dataset

Shatabarto – ListenBrainz: Send a track to another user as a personal recommendation

Shubh – BookBrainz: Unified Creation Form

skelly37 – Picard: Make Picard work in single instance mode, then improve existing error handling and crash info.

Yuzie – ListenBrainz: Add Timezone support to ListenBrainz

Welcome aboard and congratulations!
Your contributions to MetaBrainz projects and the community are impressive and admirable. We look forward to work with you over the summer and see your work come to fruition 🙂

Communication is the key to success in a closely knit community as ours. Always feel free to reach out to your mentors and other members of the community if you face any issues (stuck in your code, health or family emergencies, etc.). We, the mentors, are here to support and help you.

For all the students that applied but did not get accepted: we appreciate your applications, and even if you did not make the cut this year, we hope that you will stick around and apply with us again next year when we know you better – and you know us better.

akshaaatt, alastair, lucifer, mayhem, monkey, outsidecontext, zas