OpenWengo Code Camp

OpenWengo Code Camp 48

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Sunday June 25, 2006 @06:41PM from the what-to-do-with-sleepless-nights dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It seems that OpenWengo launched its first Code Camp a few days ago. The contest is apparently following the same process as Google Summer of Code, but is mainly focused on VoIP software. There are 14 projects for students to work on. Among them, a couple pretty interesting ones, like creating an XUL interface editor. There is a 3500 Euro stipend at stake for students completing their project. I also find interesting that most of the available projects can be reused by any software project using a GPL-compatible license."

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- Re:What is this? (Score:5, Informative)
  
  by castoridae ( 453809 ) writes: on Sunday June 25, 2006 @06:50PM (#15602318)
  
  Isn't this what most internship programs are about? Spread the word about the company, get students hooked on their software/tools/philosophy/widgets, and keep an eye out to recruit the best ones as full time employees.
  
Launching my own summer code camp (Score:5, Funny)

by Revolver4ever ( 860659 ) writes: on Sunday June 25, 2006 @07:07PM (#15602388)

It's called "Finish-my-next-CS-project" summer of code camp. Kids, help out a poor college student =/

In all seriousness, these code camps are great for everybody involved. Experience for the programmers; good, "hearty" code for the company. Even if you don't win IMHO the experience is well worth it especially for somebody who has never programmed outside of a class before.

Aren't they violating some Google patent? (Score:2, Funny)

by no parity ( 448151 ) writes:

Just asking...
For a moment... (Score:5, Funny)

by __aaclcg7560 ( 824291 ) writes: on Sunday June 25, 2006 @07:09PM (#15602394)

I thought the title said "Winnebago Code Camp". Unless you're programming the spaceship from Spaceballs [wikipedia.org], computers and Winnebagos don't mix well.

- Re:For a moment... (Score:2)
  
  by MobileTatsu-NJG ( 946591 ) writes:
  
  "I thought the title said "Winnebago Code Camp". Unless you're programming the spaceship from Spaceballs, computers and Winnebagos don't mix well."
  
  Oh.. I dunno. The scanner interface was quite elegent. Seems to me somebody already won that contest.
Attention! (Score:5, Insightful)

by fm6 ( 162816 ) writes: on Sunday June 25, 2006 @07:15PM (#15602428) Homepage Journal

If you're an OSS project, and you want people to join in, contribute, admire or whatever, please, please, PLEASE, explain WTF you are and what you're doing on the main page of your web site [openwengo.org]. Don't make people hunt for this information [openwengo.com]. Otherwise we're likely to infer that you're just another overenthusiastic underorganized OSS group that has nothing interesting going on.

- Re:Attention! (Score:4, Informative)
  
  by LordLucless ( 582312 ) writes: on Sunday June 25, 2006 @10:15PM (#15603073)
  
  Well, you can get a decent amount of info if you click the "About" button in the main menu, available from the home page. It doesn't give you as much technical info as the page you linked does, but you'll at least find out Wengo is a SIP-compatible VoiP thingy.
  
- Re:Attention! (Score:3, Insightful)
  
  by bahwi ( 43111 ) writes:
  
  Agreed! I don't care what your blog says. Oh a new release? Of what?! 4.8? WTF does it do?
  
  This has been a huge problem of OSS stuff recently.
  
  mangoserver.com: What we are: Mango Server is a code patch for a SQL injection and a strategic alliance instead of an aquisition for these SQL injections. Come! Download out SQL injections to bring your code to enterprise level!
  
  both php and drupal have big news stuff, but they say what they are. On the left for php, on the top for drupal. Even gaim's webpage has a one
- Re:Attention! (Score:1)
  
  by tanguy_k ( 952842 ) writes:
  
  That's why there is a "about" tab on the website
  - Re:Attention! (Score:2)
    
    by fm6 ( 162816 ) writes:
    
    And it's better there than on the main page because....
Euro to USD (Score:5, Informative)

by mattwarden ( 699984 ) writes: on Sunday June 25, 2006 @07:29PM (#15602494)

3,500.00 EUR = 4,381.44 USD

- Re:Euro to USD (Score:3, Informative)
  
  by fm6 ( 162816 ) writes:
  
  Don't be too precise when reporting exchange rates. They fluctuate [google.com]
- Re:Euro to USD (Score:2)
  
  by Bromskloss ( 750445 ) writes:
  
  3,500.00 EUR = 4,381.44 USD
  3 500 Euro = 32 294.9385 Swedish kronor
- Re:GPL Compatible only? (Score:2)
  
  by jbn-o ( 555068 ) writes:
  
  I'm sure your profanity-laced submissions in the public domain, or under the new BSD or MIT X11 licenses will be given due consideration.
  
  But some people care about the freedom of derivatives, so they prefer licenses which work to ensure that derivative works are also free.
  - - Re:GPL Compatible only? (Score:1, Flamebait)
      
      by AuMatar ( 183847 ) writes:
      
      There's innovation in taking free work and make it non-free?
      
      The GPL is the savior of free software, without it the movement would have been destroyed long ago. MIT and BSD licenses need to be eliminated.
    - Ah, the decades-old anti-GPL myths come up again. (Score:4, Interesting)
      
      by jbn-o ( 555068 ) writes: <mail@digitalcitizen.info> on Sunday June 25, 2006 @08:58PM (#15602832) Homepage
      
      Corporate sponsorship doesn't seem to be a goal or a problem for GPL-covered programs, unless you want to argue that IBM, Redhat, and HP aren't corporations. But why should corporations be given primacy? Users rights are far more important and happen to be eminently compatible with making money as well.
      
      There also seems to be no lack of talent in programs licensed under the GNU GPL; such as the GNU utility programs which people seem to prefer against free and proprietary alternatives alike because they're free and so highly capable (even software proprietors including Apple agree; MacOS X is compiled with GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection).
      
      Perhaps your Silicon Valley-based office should consider doing something more competitive than relying on GPL-incompatible licensing and namecalling.
      
      - Re:Ah, the decades-old anti-GPL myths come up agai (Score:1)
        
        by Troglodyt ( 898143 ) writes:
        
        I never programmed anything on a mac, but I was at an Apple workshop this spring and the Apple guy was talking about Xcode.
        Apparently gcc wasn't very good. Developers were upset when they compiled their projects in Xcode rather than from Code Warrior for the first time. Compiling things took like fifty times longer. Granted, Apple worked on this and gcc4 is faster.
        Now this could all be bullshit, I dunno, I haven't seen any of this referenced other than being told by this Apple guy. But it would be pretty bo
    - Re:GPL Compatible only? (Score:2)
      
      by A.K.A_Magnet ( 860822 ) writes:
      
      What's forcing you to code using/linking/derivating GPL'ed libraries and programs? You're free to ignore all the GPL code out there. Weren't it for the GPL, all this free code wouldn't even exist. So quit trolling: proprietary softwares kill innovation, they have killed it for the last 25 years. Soon, full FOSS stacks will catch up with proprietary equivalents and finally, it'll be easier for 3rd parties to innovate. At least that's how I see the big picture. I don't wanna elaborate with an AC, but I'm sure
Can't people speak English anymore?? (Score:1)

by aallmighty ( 839195 ) writes:

"following the same process than google summer of code" ????
- Re:Can't people speak English anymore?? (Score:3, Funny)
  
  by dorkygeek ( 898295 ) writes:
  
  Your id indicates otherwise, but, you must be new here!
- In tradition of California's *other* language... (Score:1)
  
  by edgedmurasame ( 633861 ) writes:
  
  Por qué?
Did they pay their taxes (Score:4, Interesting)

by CrazyJim1 ( 809850 ) writes: on Sunday June 25, 2006 @08:12PM (#15602650) Journal

If they were using VOIP, they better check in with Uncle Sam with all their doings.

- Re:Did they pay their taxes (Score:3, Informative)
  
  by dorkygeek ( 898295 ) writes:
  
  "Wengo is a thriving VoIP Service Provider from France."
  
  No Sam here.
  - Re:Did they pay their taxes (Score:5, Informative)
    
    by fm6 ( 162816 ) writes: on Sunday June 25, 2006 @09:30PM (#15602918) Homepage Journal
    
    More true than you know. Whereas the U.S. is personified by an old geezer wearing a weird stovepipe hat, France is personified by Marianne [info-france-usa.org], a rather attractive [ibiblio.org] lady. For a long time, her official likeness was based on various sexy Frenchwomen [beaudet.free.fr], starting with Brigitte Bardot [donnadelfuturo.it] and ending with Laetitia Casta [herbalife-herbalife.net]. Since 2002, alas, the model has been anonymous.
    
    - - Re:Did they pay their taxes (Score:2)
        
        by fm6 ( 162816 ) writes:
        
        Only the plaster ones.
    - Re:Did they pay their taxes (Score:2)
      
      by palad1 ( 571416 ) writes:
      
      Great way to sneak in an inconspicuous link to pyramid scheme / sect [pyramidschemealert.org] website.
      - Re:Did they pay their taxes (Score:2)
        
        by fm6 ( 162816 ) writes:
        
        No, a great way to get even by stealing their bandwidth!
        
        Re:Did they pay their taxes (Score:2)
        
        by palad1 ( 571416 ) writes:
        
        There is no bad PR, only PR
        
        As they say :(
Brokeback (Score:2, Funny)

by Tablizer ( 95088 ) writes:

I don't know about you, but I'll avoid any camp that has "wengo" in the title. How did that altered camp song go again, "And bingo licked my wango..."?
Can I use X-SIP-provider instead of Wengo ? NO? (Score:1)

by SLOGEN ( 165834 ) writes:

From the FAQ: http://www.openwengo.org/index.php/openwengo/publi c/homePage/openwengo/public/faq [openwengo.org]

Can I use <other_SIP_provider> instead of Wengo ?
This feature is planned for the NG release.

Because it's so hard to implement? it's not there yet...

I suggest you implement it -- your're going to have a hard time getting people onboard on yet another "we will be *the* VOIP provider"-scheme.
Why the name? (Score:2)

by QuantumFTL ( 197300 ) * writes:

Alright, I don't mean to troll/flame here - I absolutely love FOSS and use it every day at work and at home, but seriously, when are people going to stop using utterly ridiculous names for everything! It's difficult for people in a corporate context (or otherwise) to take a valid, FOSS project seriously when it is named in an absurd fashion - Wengophone (Wang-a-what?!), Ubuntu (WTF???), The GIMP (Gee, no bad associations there...)

I mean, obviously if you start a project, it's your right to name it whatever
Frauds (Score:2)

by tanveer1979 ( 530624 ) writes:

They were touted as the open source alternative to skype. but look all over their forums, people are calling them frauds. Because, people buy credits worth 10 Euro, and then are unable to make any calls. All the support guys on the forum have just one thing to say "It will be sorted within a day or 2!" And now this. I really doubt their business model and how are they making money. And I am not trolling over here. Head over to The support forum [wengo.com] And do you know another thing, if you watch the lower window p

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Re:What is this? (Score:5, Informative)

Launching my own summer code camp (Score:5, Funny)

Aren't they violating some Google patent? (Score:2, Funny)

For a moment... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:For a moment... (Score:2)

Attention! (Score:5, Insightful)

Re:Attention! (Score:4, Informative)

Re:Attention! (Score:3, Insightful)

Re:Attention! (Score:1)

Re:Attention! (Score:2)

Euro to USD (Score:5, Informative)

Re:Euro to USD (Score:3, Informative)

Re:Euro to USD (Score:2)

Re:GPL Compatible only? (Score:2)

Re:GPL Compatible only? (Score:1, Flamebait)

Ah, the decades-old anti-GPL myths come up again. (Score:4, Interesting)

Re:Ah, the decades-old anti-GPL myths come up agai (Score:1)

Re:GPL Compatible only? (Score:2)

Can't people speak English anymore?? (Score:1)

Re:Can't people speak English anymore?? (Score:3, Funny)

In tradition of California's other language... (Score:1)

Did they pay their taxes (Score:4, Interesting)

Re:Did they pay their taxes (Score:3, Informative)

Re:Did they pay their taxes (Score:5, Informative)

Re:Did they pay their taxes (Score:2)

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Brokeback (Score:2, Funny)

Can I use X-SIP-provider instead of Wengo ? NO? (Score:1)

Why the name? (Score:2)

Frauds (Score:2)

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Can't people speak English anymore?? (Score:1)

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In tradition of California's *other* language... (Score:1)

Did they pay their taxes (Score:4, Interesting)

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