Linux.com: "The key to being successful in the IT industry is interning while still attending college and taking some certification courses after graduation. Do some research. Find an open source technology company that will provide you with the tools and resources you will need to build your career. Open source spans platforms, middleware and applications from data centers to desktops. There are many companies that offer internship programs and certification courses."

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After 18 months of development, Geeklog 1.5.0 has been released.  As I mentioned last month, changes found in Geeklog 1.5.0 incorporates the following projects implemented during the 2007 Google Summer of Code:

• New user-friendly install script
• New Configuration Graphical User Interface
• New Webservices API based on the Atom Publishing Protocol

Additional new features and enhancements included in this release:

• OpenID support.
• New LDAP remote authentication module.
• Updated FCKeditor to version 2.6.
• Rewrite of the underlying story code which addresses issues with special characters and HTML entities.
• Comments can now be closed, i.e. existing comments will still be displayed but no new comment can be posted.
• The Polls plugin now allows for multiple questions per poll.
• The Static Pages plugin now supports comments.
• The database backup admin panel now lets you delete and download backups.
• Theming improvements including the support of XHTML.

Geeklog 1.5 can be downloaded at Geeklog.net.

Google Code: "Google Summer of Code 2008 is on! Over the past three
years, the program has brought together over 1500 students and
2000 mentors from 90 countries worldwide, all for the love of
code. This year, we're welcoming 1125 student contributors and 175
Free and Open Source projects into the program. You can find out more
about each participating organization and abstracts of their accepted
students' proposals by visiting each organization's page, below. We'll
be posting regular news about the program to the Google Open Source Blog."

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"Every summer since 2005, Google has offered what is essentially a paid
internship to open source groups. Students are offered the opportunity
to work with open source development groups to complete projects, often
resulting in significant advances for both the student’s knowledge and
the developments they’ve worked on. These projects, combined or
otherwise, are some of the biggest successes we’ve seen come out of
Google’s Summer of Code."

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"For the Drupal community's participation in the 2007 Google Summer of Code program, Google donated $10,000 USD to the Drupal Association earlier this week. This amount represents 10% of the $100,000 USD allocated to Drupal's Summer of Code students."

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Sigurd Magnusson wrote to us letting us know about a YouTube video where he talks about his company's content management system, SilverStripe. The video was recorded while at a recent function at Google for software developers.

Here's some interesting content for both you and your readers, providing a  quick overview of our project, company and our success with the Google  Summer of Code project.  :-)

While the content management system, SilverStripe, has been on my radar for some time I never really took the time to cover the Web application here at CMS Report.  Now it so happens that SilverStripe has been nominated as one of the most promising open source CMS out there.  About the only thing I can do to correct my oversight is to put SilverStripe on a list of the "top 30" CMS we focus on here at CMS Report.  Sadly, mostly out of nostalgia, SilverStripe will be bumping Simple PHP Blog off the "CMS Focus" list.

Earlier this month, SilverStripe 2.1 was released.  The folks on the SilverStripe team appear pretty excited about this release, with just the right synergy brewing to give this CMS a good future.  Some of the new features and improvements in SilverStripe 2.1 include:

• New security system (benefiting from Google Summer of Code)
• Blog Module (with drag-n-drop widget support including tag clouds, RSS feed, etc)
• Support for Updated Gallery Module

Download links to SilverStripe 2.1 are available via SilverStripe.com.

"In the previous Summer Of Code blog Johan explained the projects that have been selected for this year. In the past month the students have been introduced to their mentor and prepared their project…in short they are ready to start. Official Summer Of Code schedule says that coding needs to start on May 28Th, so time for a short update."

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