These last days have been even harder than ever. I don’t remember having never worked so hard in my life, but finally I’m satisfied and this is a priceless feeling surely!! ^__^ Of course I’m not saying that my application is perfect because it can be improved a lot especially to enhance its low performance that may impact its usability. I hope that this can be fixed by substituting Derby with the Couch DB as suggested by Philip (considered that my system work especially on sensor data properties). Moreover a GUI more web-oriented is needed, better if integrated with the Hackystat ProjectBrowser. But I really love my application goals and the way the Linked Data world is going to increase! While working I had the chance to read really recent paper about this topic and this is stimulating! I met great really great people in the Hackystat team. Talking at the telephone (!!!) with Philip Johnson was such a wonderful experience…he’s a really humble person despite of his wiseness and he’s always encouraged me throughout my GSoC experience, as well as my university professor Filippo Lanubile ^__^ Unfortunately I’m a person always in special needing for encouragement eheheh XD
But in addition to this I met great developers also on IRC channels and talking to them on such a currently growing topic as Linked Data, could be so stimulating too! For example tuukkah added a relationship to insert a particular info I was in needing within his SIOCLog’s profiles to let me use it in my application. And in the same channel there were also Fred Giasson of the Umbel project and Sergio Fernandèz who created RDFOhloh and lots of other useful applications! Definitely I found that the Opens Source community in general is a stimulating, interesting, exciting and full of CV enhancement chances for everyone .
My GSoC experience has been as taking a world tour and visiting places I didn’t see before, and learning things I’ve never knew. Firstly I was asked to make a great effort to think about the usefulness of my application for final users. This is an argument that anyone talks about while giving you projects for your University exams and it’s indeed, really difficult but really important to make a great work out of your project and stimulating your love for it (that is the essential thing: designing application and coding is pure creativity!).
Secondly I’ve done lots of exams completely alone but there was never been put such importance on documentation, and projects were not so great to compel me entering a deep designing phase. This time indeed, a deep and good design was a critical phase.And I made mistakes and I corrected them and tried to do a realistic and clear job. I’ve learned so much from this.
Thirdly I’ll remember the GSoC as “the first time I…” experience. It represents to me the first time I’ve used Subversion, the first time I’ve reported bugs, the first time I fixed them (locally yes ), the first time I’ve used Ant and discovered how easy can be generating jar files and distribution packages even for great projects including lots of external libraries in the CLASSPATH, the first time I’ve met Apache Ivy (another great tool ehehe ) and the first time I’ve shared publicly online with others, in a perfect Open Source style, my own project. It would be wonderful even if someone out there become interested in my project and would ask for contributing ^__^ ooo I was forgetting: it’s been also the first time collaborating with such a geographically far placed team! I enjoyed it, really.
Well, I want to be completely sincerely and then I must talk about the stress and tiredness caused by the GSoC timeline. Here in the south of Italy we’ve had the hottest days during July and other really hot days during August. Moreover everyone takes vacation on August, (just during the last weeks of the competition and then the heaviest ones) and it’s not easy to concentrate on your work. BUT now, at the end of the GSoC I can say that it’s such a valuable and especially “Rewarding” experience, that renouncing to “yet another summer of your life” is not a so high price ))) IT’S DEFINITELY WORTH IT!
I don’t know if it’s already clear enough, but I’m not going to abandon my project, absolutely! I’ll take care of it and keep spreading the word

My only regret regards not having the chance to know better the other Hackystat GSoCers. Personally it’s just because of so few spare time to dedicate to pure conversations I’ve really appreciated the kind messages sent by Rachel!

Sincerely thanks to the Hackystat team that has offered to me such a great experience,
to the Collaborative Development Group at my own University, that has stimulated me in applying for the GSoC this year, and has supported me throughout my work (even moral support ),
definitely thanks to Philip Johnson whose meeting I consider a honor ^__^
I hope to keep in contact with everyone however, so this is not a “leave-taking” but simply a “see you soon”