We're gearing up for GSOC 2011 already. Right now we're working on the organization application, a large part of which is showing that we have a set of project ideas ready for interested students.
Please take a look at this page: http://trac.parrot.org/parrot/wiki/GSoc2011 This is where we are going to be listing project ideas to include with our application. We need to get as many high-quality project ideas as possible here. Here is some basic criteria and ideas about what would make a good and acceptable project: 1) Project ideas should be *doable* in a 2-3month work window by a student, possibly a student who doesn't have much prior experience with Parrot. 2) Projects should also be *desirable* to Parrot. We don't want to end up with a situation like we have in years past where we have unmerged gsoc branches untouched and unmerged months after the completion of the project. It is important to pick projects that a student will be able to complete, and that we will be eager to merge by the end of the project. 3) Projects can be for "core" parrot, or can also be within the Parrot ecosystem (extension and embedding projects, HLLs, libraries, etc). Anything that we think is going to be generally beneficial to the community is a potential project. Projects like Parrot-Instrument and parrot/past-optimization were developed in GSOC last year, and both live outside "core" Parrot, for example. If you have a repo that would benefit from a GSOC student's dedicated time, and you think the rest of Parrot would benefit as well, speak up. Don't be shy! We can talk more about what makes a "good" project on this list, at #ps, on IRC, or elsewhere, if more discussion of it is needed. If you find ideas in this list that you would be willing to be a mentor for, feel free to list your name there as well. Hopefully we get many students, each of which is going to need a mentor. Having mentors lined up next to project ideas is a good way to show to Google that we are serious about the project and are going to be willing to support it for the duration of the summer. We benefit a very large amount from GSOC each year, and we need to take this application and project ideas phase seriously if we want to see the same kinds of benefits again this year. Please please please, if you have time today or this week to look at this page it would be great if you could do that. We need lots of great ideas. Thanks, --Andrew Whitworth _______________________________________________ http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev
