Hi Sharan, Thanks for this topic.
After reading your email, I released a new OFBiz-NER plugin in Github: https://github.com/YYWorks/OFBiz-NER/ The first version of this plugin is built by Menghan Sun in July, 2016, a summer practice, in one month. Now she's reading her doctorate in system security in CUHK. Here is my big +1 to GsoC. I'm eager to be a mentor for one or two students in this summer. I think we have a lot of research/prototype tasks for GsoC students: 1. AI: Sentiment analysis of communications in CRM (OpenNLP, CoreNLP and etc.). 2. AI: Product Recommendation (PredictionIO). 3. Accounting: Extend OFBiz AR/AP to support Chinese rule. 4. Accounting: Extend OFBiz to support distributed ledger. 5. UI: Replace tree with ztree. 6. Help Document: Use jquery-pagewalkthrough to show help messages to user. 7. Scheduler: Use Quartz as an alternative implement of OFBiz scheduler. 8. Security: New password cipher to prevent quantum computing crack. And so on.:) Kind Regards, Shi Jinghai -----邮件原件----- 发件人: Sharan Foga [mailto:sha...@apache.org] 发送时间: 2018年1月25日 22:02 收件人: dev@ofbiz.apache.org 主题: OFBiz and Google Summer of Code (GsoC) 2018 ? Hi All The ASF is registering to be a participating organisation for GsoC 2018. We are in the middle of doing a lot of work. Would it be interesting for us to add some of these tasks to the GsoC list and mentor some students? It is a good way of encouraging new people to become involved with the project and maybe also promote OFBiz too. If any of our tasks are selected, then we would need official mentors from our community to work with the student on a regular basis to provide feedback. There is also a regular reporting that the mentor needs to file about the student's progress. If the mentor misses filing a report for a student then it reflects badly on the ASF as a mentoring organisation. I mention this because it is important that anyone wanitng to be a mentor for a GsoC student realises that if they sign up to do it – then they need to do it! Some initial suggestions for GsoC tasks from Taher were: - convert minilang services to groovy - documenting the components using the documentation framework we're implementing - convert integration tests to unit tests where possible If you have any other suggestions for potential tasks then please respond with the details. None of this is any good – if we don't have any mentors, so we need people willing to be GsoC mentors. So what's next? - First I'd like to get feedback on whether people think it is a good idea for OFBiz to participate - If, so then second I would like to see if we should use the suggestions for tasks above or have any more - Finally, and most importantly I'd like to know who would be willing to be a mentor for a student selecting to take on one of our tasks Please let me have your comments and feedback Thanks Sharan
