As I watched Summer of Code students discussing their projects on the IRC channel, something occurred to me: while SoC is a fantastic learning experience, there isn't much student-to-student learning. Student coders can learn from their projects, mentors, books, Google, etc, but not as much from each other.

I'd love to see more explanation of what other students are doing. Many of the students are light years ahead of me in terms of coding abilities, and I think there's a lot I could learn from them. There are so many projects working with concepts I don't understand and I would like to.

People seem to be blogging a lot more this year than they did last year, and that's awesome. The Planet SoC feed seems to be busier this year as well. We should use this increase in blog popularity to teach each other about what we're doing. Not just saying what our project deals with, but taking the time to explain concepts and maybe even mini tutorials - teaching in general.

Anyone else with me?

I'm getting a little better with Dashcode now, although not at the point past simple RSS feeds. I'd like to learn how to add configs to filter the feeds by tags, but I'm not quite there yet.

I've made a simple reader for PlanetSoC, which can be found here. Hopefully this will be useful to someone...please let me know if any suggestions/comments.

UPDATE: Dashcode doesn't show the author of posts by default it seems. Big thanks to KillerX for modifying the Widget so it now shows author names!