On Friday, 6 February 2015 at 00:23:59 UTC, Rikki Cattermole
wrote:
On 6/02/2015 9:30 a.m., CraigDillabaugh wrote:
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?
I've taken a look at our review queue. We have an (old) attempt
at replacing it[0]. It is abandoned. But it looks like a fairly
good starting point if somebody wanted to use it as a base.
[0]
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~michael-rynn-500/d2-xml/d2-xml-dev/files/head:/std/xmlp/
I went and added std.xml ... executive decision. Hopefully if
that gets a student proposal some mentor will step in.
If anyone feels like reveiwing the proposal, it is located at:
https://github.com/craig-dillabaugh/dlang-gsoc2015
You can see what they are looking for here:
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2015/help_page#2._What_should_a_mentoring_organization
