I am happy that two GSoC (http://code.google.com/soc/2008/) projects got accepted that are related to projects I maintain:

• LLMNR Protocol Integration in Avahi (http://code.google.com/soc/2008/gnome/appinfo.html?csaid=92FFD4A9E4DC91F9), by Sunil Kumar Ghai, mentored by Trent Lloyd (http://www.lathiat.net/blog). The GNOME project (http://www.gnome.org/) generously allowed this application to happen under its umbrella. LLMNR (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LLMNR) support is a big improvement for Avahi (http://avahi.org/). We will then integrate into newer Windows networks as seamless as we already integrate into MacOS X networks.

• Integration of the Bluetooth Audio service with PulseAudio (http://code.google.com/soc/2008/bluez/appinfo.html?csaid=2218999748B418AE), by João Paulo Rechi Vita, mentored by Luiz Augusto von Dentz (http://vudentz.blogspot.com/). Made possible through the BlueZ project (http://www.bluez.org/).

I’d like to thank the GNOME and BlueZ projects for making these GSoC applications a reality.