On 2021-01-30 11:56, Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > Hi, > > Registration for Google Summer of Code 2021 for Organizations is open. > Will we take part? > That would be awesome for many reasons: Visibility, moving projects forward of course, bringing new people to the community etc.
Worth mentioning the deadline is February 19th: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/how-it-works/#timeline > I started a list of interesting tasks in the wiki and on a Freesite > https://github.com/freenet/wiki/wiki/Google-Summer-of-Code-2021 > USK@1e~oSIunnUl4nWEdyZBLjYMGt1IladVmY7GhXnfmHRw,hAhN74IAmm2Eo5Qkr6ZCEcG3MVBEexrbFXBp61W3jcI,AQACAAE/gsoc-2021/2/ Looking at the list all of them sounds really interesting projects, particularly the ones in the Brainstorming section. My only concern is that these projects are defined too high-level to be approached by a student in the GSoC timeline Also it comes to my mind that some previous GSoC projects didn't went live due to various reasons. Do we understand what went wrong and how to avoid making the same mistakes? > The ones that I see as most impactful on the short term now that we have > a mobile app in FDroid (yay DC*!) are content filters for > - ogg opus, > - vp9, and > - av1 > > Those would make the upcoming in-browser streaming fast enough that > freesites can provide video-on-demand in HD-quality. I think this is a great GSoC project as it has a well known roadmap, as well as being quite visible to the end user. > In addition anything that can add features from icicles to the mobile > node: https://github.com/freenet-mobile/app That would be great! Even though the code app base is not the great or most interesting. > Best wishes, > Arne
