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Summer of Code 2007 underway

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So the list of approved GNOME SoC projects is now online with a lot of interesting projects getting approved. Highlights include projects to further improve GNOME bluetooth support, Scanning support and input device hotplugging. Other interesting projects revolved around Telepathy and the new VOIP infrastructure, Pitivi improvements and Evolution. Be sure to read through the list and see whats happening.

There are of course also a long host of other projects participating in Google Soc, so if you click into the project name on code.google.com/soc you will be able to view their approved projects. Many of them are of course relevant to GNOME in various ways, ranging to improvements to applications popular among GNOME users to for instance HAL support for NetBSD enabling better running of GNOME on that platform.

Good luck to all our students and mentors as they set forth to make this the best Summer of Code ever :)

Re: lockdown policy?

Actually the filesystem lockdown will go hand in hand with other lockdown policies, including disabled access to the terminal.
Filesystem level ACLs won't work in many cases (you can't restrict access to /etc via fs level ACLs, for example - almost all applications will break in such a situation)
The lockdown would actually be implemented in GNOME-VFS, so even if an application uses a custom file selector, if that selector uses GNOME-VFS, the lockdown would be implemented (I have put up the detailed proposal at my site).
Hope that clears the confusion :-).

Sayamindu