Here is my initial proposal: ------------------------
Dear Sir or Madam, With this email we would like to apply as mentoring organization for your "Summer of Code" program. We hope that with your funding we can improve the project. FPC/Lazarus is the joined effort of two development teams to bring the power of RAD tools using a compiled language to all interesting platforms. Currently we support several architectures (x86, Amd64/x86_64, PowerPC, Sparc and ARM), and several operating systems (Windows, Windows CE, Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, Mac OS classic, DOS, Win32, OS/2, Netware, MorphOS and others). We, the maintainers of the FreePascal and Lazarus projects would like to apply as a single organization (called FPC/Lazarus) since our projects are very closely related. FreePascal (http://www.freepascal.org/) develops a free multiplatform Pascal compiler and the runtime environment. The FreePascal project is already a very long-running OSS project, it has been developed in 1993 with a first release in 1996 (http://tinyurl.com/edolq) and since then has evolved in a rather large project, already supporting a lot of platforms on several different processor families. The FreePascal team would like to take this opportunity to extend the compiler and improve its quality even more. A collection of ideas for students working on the FreePascal can be found at http://wiki.freepascal.org/index.php/Open_tasks . Of course we are willing to provide more exact requirements for each particular task if required. Lazarus (http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org) has been founded in 1999 with the goal of developing a RAD IDE based on FPC. It provides a modern class library and an IDE for the development of GUI programs, and is compatible with Borland Delphi VCL, which allows complex GUI software created on Delphi to be ported to many platforms using Lazarus. We hope that this project will allow us to improve our project, add new features, and make it an even better cross-platform development environment. There is a collection of ideas to be implemented here: http://wiki.freepascal.org/Feature_Ideas Both the compiler and IDE are provided under the GPL, while the runtime libraries are provided under the LGPL with the explicit permission for static linking. Several of the developers have experience with teaching students or work as professional software engineers, so we think that the mentored students will be able to learn a lot about software development besides the experience they can get when participating the Summer of Code. We applied last year to participade on summer of code. Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho will be the organization administrator. He's e-mail is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Our mailling lists can be found at: http://www.freepascal.org/maillist.var and http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=StaticPage&file=index&sURL=maill Our main IRC channels are #fpc and #lazarus-ide , both on FreeNode server. Best regards, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho in behalf of the FPC/Lazarus development teams -------------------- I'm not sure how to answer the following topics. I will just make a guess of how to answer them here:
11. Who will be your backup organization administrator? Please
include Google Account information. I would say that probably Florian could be the backup admin Just what is a Google Account information?????
12. Who will your mentors be? Please include Google Account Information.
I here thereby nominate: Mattias, Daniel Mationi, Peter, Mark, Vincent =) Later we can change this anyway. Other volunteers?
13. What criteria did you use to select these individuals as
mentors? Please be as specific as possible. All the selected individuals have greatly contributed to our projects. For a short example, Peter wrote a new Internal Linker for FPC, Mattias leads the gtk development on Lazarus and Mark the Windows development. 14. What is your plan for dealing with disappearing students? We hope to have a good enougth selection so that our students won't disappear. 15. What is your plan for dealing with disappearing mentors? All mentors have worked for many years with Free Pascal and/or Lazarus. If, nevertheless, any of them disappear, we have many competent people on our project, and we can nominate a new mentor. 16. What steps will you take to encourage students to interact with your project's community before, during and after the program? 17. What will you do to ensure that your accepted students stick with the project after GSoC concludes? I would try to answer these 2, but my time is out for the next 16 hours or so, so I will just send this incomplete, so others can contribute in the mean time. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
