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The Wine project will be one of the organizations participating in Google's Summer of Code. If you're a student and want to get paid cold, hard cash for writing open source, check out their participant FAQ. If your proposal is selected, you'll receive $500 to get started and $4000 when you complete your project. Proposals are due by June 14th.

To get involved with Wine and find a project, check out the following resources:

• SummerOfCode wiki page
• Fun Projects page
• Wine's mailing lists and irc information

After a short lull for WineConf, development picked back up in May. The past week has seen a flurry of patches. Alexandre released a snapshot today with the following changes noted:

• Many MSI improvements.
• More features in the file manager.
• Better compatibility for Winelib import libraries.
• SGML documentation moved out of the source tree.
• Header files cleanups.
• Lots of bug fixes.

Binary packages are in the process of being built, but the source is available now. You can find out more about this release in the announcement. Check out our download page for packages for your favorite distribution.

We are pleased to announce the Software Freedom Law Center will be providing legal counsel to the Wine project. The SFLC stands at the forefront of legal representation for free and open source software. Its distinguished board includes Eben Moglen, Lawrence Lessig, Diane M. Peters, and Daniel J. Weitzner. From the press release:

"As open source projects are increasingly threatened by excessive litigation, technological successes must be partnered with solid legal principles, said Eben Moglen, chairman of the Software Freedom Law Center. "The Wine Project is a particularly important example. By representing the Wine Project, the Software Freedom Law Center will enable further adoption of the project's benefits and increase confidence among users."

We've got our own Wiki now! Thanks to Dimi Paun for putting it together the Wine Wiki and hosting it. So far we've put in a user area and a developer area. Feel free to add whatever useful information you think should be on there. This is community driven, we can't do it without your help!

A special edition of the Wine Weekly News was released today as a summary of WineConf 2005.

WineConf 2005 has wrapped up. Everyone had a great time, albeit pretty tired. We have a bunch of people that really helped out and it's amazing how many people worked on a pretty seamless event. Mr. Ulrich Gemkow with the University of Stuttgart put together the venue and organized the local student organization, Fachschaft Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik (pictured above). Finally, the Wirtschaftsförderung Region Stuttgart, David Gümbel with ITOMIG, and Jeremy White of CodeWeavers provided a bunch of behind the scenes support, including financial help. Thanks everyone!

We'll try to post a full summary in a few days. We recorded the presentations, so hopefully we can get those up as well.

WineConf 2005 will be descending on Stuttgart next weekend! It's still possible for developers to make last minute travel arrangements.

Typically development slows as summer approaches, but March showed a lot of new additions. Alexandre released a new version of Wine today:

• Mailslot support.
• Support for side mouse buttons (X buttons).
• More Richedit improvements.
• Loading of Windows registry files disabled for now.
• Many code cleanups.
• Lots of bug fixes.

Binary packages are in the process of being built, but the source is available now. You can find out more about this release in the announcement. Check out our download page for packages for your favorite distribution.

CodeWeavers announced version 4.2 of CrossOver Office today. This release adds support for EndNote 8, Quicken 2005, QuickBooks 2001-2004 and iTunes 4.7.1. The Server Edition product has been updated as well. Besides the new application support, bug fixes and stability improvements for other applications are included. For more details, see the changelog.

Alexandre released a new version of Wine today with the following changes noted:

• Initial implementation of a true Richedit control.
• Shell extension for browsing Unix directories.
• More MSI work.
• PBuffer support in OpenGL.
• Window painting regressions should be fixed.
• Lots of bug fixes

Binary packages are in the process of being built, but the source is available now. Read more about this release, or just go download it.

In belated news, we've updated some pages on WineHQ. Tom Wickline reviewed and made some changes to Wine's status pages To get a feel for the progress, check out the status page changelog. Dimi Paun went through the to do list and marked a few tasks as complete. Finally, we had a janitorial task marked as complete to use Interlocked functions in AddRef and Release methods.

According to Microsoft, Wine ranks as the number one cross-platform API translation technology:

"As the most popular third-party translation technology in use, Wine was the first emulator to be specifically tested for via WGA" - Microsoft spokesperson

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