On Friday, 30 January 2015 at 04:32:14 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh
wrote:
It seems like its been too long since I posted asking for GSOC
help.
The start of submissions for the 2015 Google Summer of Code is
fast approaching,
so once again I would like to approach the community for some
assistance. My immediate needs are:
1) I need a volunteer for 'backup' administrator. This is a
requirement, so I really
need someone to volunteer for this position, which with a
little luck will require
exactly 0 work, and will bring you great honour and prestige.
2) DigitalMars is listed as the mentoring orgnaization. Should
we register rather
as dlang.org?
3) QML. The QML project is very thin, and unless it can be
improved it will
need to be dropped. Recently there was a QML project posted on
the Announce list:
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/hapeegrotkazppwdn...@forum.dlang.org
This might be a good starting point for a student project, if
the developer of
this project is interested in mentoring, but I haven't been
able to get a hold of
him/her. Does anyone know how to get in touch with 'filcuc'.
4) Extra polishing is welcome on any of the ideas sections. In
particular I
wanted to have a "It is Good To Know" section indicating what
students should
know (or be expected to learn). Some of these are fairly well
filled out,
others are non-existant or sparse. The ideas page is at:
http://wiki.dlang.org/GSOC_2015_Ideas
5) If you are a mentor, I've tried to make a bio's page for
mentors. It can
be seen here:
http://wiki.dlang.org/GSOC_mentors
If you are a mentor please consider filling your bio out. I've
dug up stuff
off the web/old D Conf bio's, etc on a few of you, but it would
be nice if folks
could edit their own.
6) We could still use maybe one (or two) more solid ideas. If
you are working
on some cool project related to the D ecosystem, and think a
student could help you (and you could help
them) we could maybe add your idea to the list. Especially if
we end up
dropping QML.
7) If we are approved we will need to form a committee to
evaluate the student
proposals that will undoubtedly flood in ... any volunteers
for that duty! It should likely include the mentors, but they
might be biased, so some folks outside the mentors group would
be nice.
Just bumping my own thread here. GSOC program proposals can be
submitted in less than a week (Feb 9th), and I would like to
submit our proposal near the beginning of the time period. Thanks
to everyone thus far who has volunteered to help. We could still
use an extra topic or two, and pointers
Bio's for some mentors are still incomplete. Jacob Ovrum and
Russel Winder have no bio, and for others I have scrapped
together some stuff from off the internet that may be way out of
date! I would encourage anyone who volunteered to mentor to at
least read over what I wrote for accuracy - and ask Jacob and
Russel to fill something in - or I can always make something up
for you :o)
Finally, I wanted to ask what the Phobos mentors think of adding
std.xml to the list of Phobos libraries that could use an update?
