In the second year of CROSS being a mentor organization for Google Summer of Code, we received Google funding for 4 summer students. For more information, see my GSoC Mentor Summit [lightening talk](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/17a8PSOWnuoOOfv-snVEno2oIaDFEUfQ6UirhHW4k6k0/edit?usp=sharing).
The [4th Annual CROSS Research Symposium](https://cross.ucsc.edu/2019-symposium) is taking place today and tomorrow with three keynote speakers, Daniela Barbosa, Joseph Jacks, and Haoyuan Li.
The 31st International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management ([SSDBM 2019](https://uccross.github.io/ssdbm2019/)) will be held in Santa Cruz, CA, USA on July 23-25, 2019.
One of the outcomes of attending [!!Con West](http://bangbangcon.com/west/2019/) was an opportunity to join the 285th podcast of [Embedded.fm](https://www.embedded.fm/): “[A Chicken Getting to the Other Side](https://www.embedded.fm/episodes/285)”
CROSS Industry-Practitioner-in-Residence Philip Kufeldt contributed to the SNIA Live Webcast on [Why Composable Infrastructure](https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/663/344762/why-composable-infrastructure)
Please join Peter Alvaro, Scott Brandt, Jay Lofstead, and me in congratulating Dr. Ivo Jimenez on his successful Ph.D. defense today on "Agile Research Delivery".
On October 3-4, 2018, the Center for Research in Open Source Software (CROSS) will host its 3rd Annual Research Symposium at the Baskin School of Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz.