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+title: GSoC 2011 and Dancer
+date: 2011-04-30
+layout: post
+category: log
+---
+
+As of Monday, April 25th, I'm an accepted student to be part of [[http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2011][Google
+Summer of Code 2011]] for [[http://www.perlfoundation.org/][The Perl Foundation]] and the [[http://perldancer.org/][Perl Dancer]]
+project. I feel like this is more of an opportunity to learn from my
+mentors and others in the Perl community. Not that they will be my
+teachers, but mentors for the work that is expected from me. Even
+though my proposal is simple, the work won't be. We are still in the
+process of reworking the proposal schedule.
+
+You can find my proposal [[http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2011/gnusosa/1][here]].
+
+I will be working on an update module for the Dancer core. Since its
+stable releases, Dancer as been deployed without an update script or
+module. In my case, I've had to rewrite routes and functions to each
+new update for my blog to be up-to-date. This module will come in
+handy for each deployed web-app that hasn't been updated.
+
+My mentors are Sawyer X (=sawyer=) and Franck Cuny (=franck=),
+however, just like my mentors, Florian Ragwitz (=rafl=) helped me a
+lot in the whole process of applying and getting to know everyone.
+
+At first, I wanted to apply, but wasn't too sure about the whole idea.
+After communicating with =sawyer= back and forth via irc and mail, I
+decided to apply with a basic idea of what I wanted to do. =sawyer=
+decided that the update module would be a better idea to work on
+rather than fixing the multiple applicatons in one app.psgi file
+feature that was also proposed.
+
+As cheesy as this might sound, GSoC for me is more about the
+experience gained and networking with the community than the actual
+payments or intership. I know everything counts, but in the end, all
+this work is to give back to the Perl community and the Perl Dancer
+project.
+
+Thanks to my mentors, the Perl Dancer developers, the Perl community,
+and GSoC officials for the opportunity.
+
+Shout'out to =Hugmeir= for taking on the task of [[http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2011/hugmeir/1][cleaning the Perl
+core]], and to everyone else who was [[http://mdk.per.ly/2011/04/25/gsoc-the-tpf-accepted-students/][accepted to represent the Perl
+Foundation in GSoC]].