The Exploits of Plouj

In April I was privileged to be one of the 1125 students who got selected for the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2008 program. I was accepted to work on a project to implement Panorama Viewing in VLC. This summer was my last chance to participate in GSoC as a student because of my graduation date so I was very excited to have this once in a lifetime opportunity. More recently, I received an offer for a full-time “Linux Application and OS Developer” position at SOMA Networks - a company in downtown Toronto. Given the importance of a permanent job and having read the advice from previous GSoC participants, it didn’t take me long to decide to cancel the GSoC project and focus on the new job. Due to timing, however, I still managed to receive an acceptance gift from Google. The gift is a book called Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think. Apart from being an interesting read, it’s a nice souvenir to keep in memory of the many hours I spent preparing for GSoC by choosing a project to apply for and writing multiple proposals.