Google Summer of Code is on!

The Google Summer of Code is officially on, and the Apache Derby project got three great students to work with us. This was my first time participating in this, and it was interesting, somewhat chaotic, a bit confusing, but it was also great to work with all these other open-sourcers on pulling this all together. Kudos for Google for managing this, and it's also great to see how many open source projects are going on out there.

For Derby we have Ramin Moazeni working on writing a migration tool from MySQL to Derby, Gokul Soundarajan working on improving the algorithim for the LRU cache manager, and Sanket Sharma working on adding JMX support to Derby. If you're interested, you can find out more about these projects and their ongoing status at http://wiki.apache.org/db-derby/GoogleSummerOfCodeProjects.