Hi Ivan, looks like your mail never made it to the GNU GSoC project. At least GNUstep doesn't show up on there list of possible projects. Today I applied to become a mentor anyway, so if a student has shows up we have somebody to look after him or her.
Fred On 19.02.2014 21:01, Ivan Vučica wrote: > [bcc gnustep-dev@] > > I was authorized by Gregory Casamento to send a few ideas; I got the > confirmation yesterday, so I apologize for delaying this today. > > > *- URL to your project's homepage.* > http://www.gnustep.org/ > *- A paragraph describing your project.* > GNUstep is a console, desktop and web application development framework > for development using Objective-C. It is based on OPENSTEP specification, > and is today interested in achieving compatibility with Apple's Cocoa set > of frameworks. GNUstep consists of gnustep-base (classes for strings, > arrays, dictionaries, timers, sockets, et al), gnustep-gui (classes for > windows, buttons, textboxes, et al), gnustep-make (a build system) as well > as an assortment of development utilities and bonus libraries. > > ------------ > > * - Title for the idea.* > Improve Core Animation implementation and integrate it into AppKit > * - A paragraph describing the idea.* > During summer of code 2012, Core Animation has been implemented for > GNUstep. During summer of code 2013, Core Graphics backend has been > implemented for GNUstep using our library Opal. In order to improve > compatibility with Cocoa, as well as make it easier to implement > modern-looking applications for GNUstep, a student should integrate CALayer > with NSView and improve Core Animation where required. > > This would also make it possible to use Chameleon, an implementation of > UIKit, with GNUstep. > * - Contact point for students interested in the idea (usually* > * development mailing list).* > discuss-gnus...@gnu.org > gnustep-dev@gnu.org > > > > * - Title for the idea.* > Improve Core Animation implementation and implement UIKit > * - A paragraph describing the idea.* > During summer of code 2012, Core Animation has been implemented for > GNUstep. During summer of code 2013, Core Graphics backend has been > implemented for GNUstep using our library Opal. In order to attract more > developers to free platforms, as well as expand availability of > touch-enabled applications, a student should create a UIKit-compatible user > interface library and improve Core Animation implementation where necessary. > > * - Contact point for students interested in the idea (usually* > * development mailing list).* > discuss-gnus...@gnu.org > gnustep-dev@gnu.org > > ------------------ > > I hope to be able to provide advice to students for these two ideas, either > as a formal mentor or informally. If it's not going to be me, we'll find > another contributor to take over the role. > > If appropriate, feel free to note that we are definitely open to other > ideas from students. These happen to be the ones that I personally am > interested in. > > > On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 4:57 PM, Jose E. Marchesi <jema...@gnu.org> wrote: > >> >> Hi hackers. >> >> At the moment we received 0 ideas to put in our GSOC ideas page [1]. >> Google just notified us that GNU will be rejected from this year's GSOC >> if we dont put ideas in the next 12 hours. >> >> No project is interested in participating in GSoC this year?? >> >> [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/soc-projects/ideas-2014.html _______________________________________________ Gnustep-dev mailing list Gnustep-dev@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev
