Re: [Server-devel] Google Summer of Code and OLPC
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 9:28 PM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This year, GSoC is starting early, so we should be getting in motion asap. Did we manage to get in? Or rather - did OLPC apply at all? Deadline was 12th March... we don't seem to be on the list here http://code.google.com/soc/2008/ cheers, martin ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] Google Summer of Code and OLPC
On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 6:31 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AFAIK - Summer of Code does not support non code related projects. You are right - but the related GHOP does. We could get a lot of mileage out of that. cheers, m ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [Server-devel] Google Summer of Code and OLPC
On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 6:31 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AFAIK - Summer of Code does not support non code related projects. You are right - but the related GHOP does. We could get a lot of mileage out of that. Yes - OLPC should probably try to be a part of the next GHOP - there are a lot of potential tasks that are suited for the GHOP. In a related note - I have move the current SOC page in the wiki to an archive (Summer of Code/2007) and the current toplevel page talks 2008. Thanks, Sayamindu -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [Server-devel] Google Summer of Code and OLPC
I added to this page DrGeo enhancements needed to make it fully operable within the XO machine. Hilaire 2008/2/29, Shankar Pokharel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is there a wiki page (specific to SoC 2008) which can be used to build up a list of ideas ? http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Summer_of_Code/2008 ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [Server-devel] Google Summer of Code and OLPC
Ok - here's the idea page - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Summer_of_Code/2008/Ideas Thanks, Sayamindu On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 1:22 AM, Shankar Pokharel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/29/08, Sayamindu Dasgupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is there a wiki page (specific to SoC 2008) which can be used to build up a list of ideas ? http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Summer_of_Code/2008 I have been involved in the Summer of Code in 2007 (as a student under GNOME) - and I would love to help organize the SoC efforts from OLPC this year. Thanks, Sayamindu 2008/2/29 Samuel Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks, Martin. That's a great idea; every project should list their needs and think of them in terms of work interns can do. We should also start looking for experienced mentors now who can take on 1-3 projects and give the interns serious feedback. SJ On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 8:28 PM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last year OLPC mentored a couple of GSoC projects - as documented at http://wiki.laptop.org/wiki/OLPC_Google_Summer_of_Code - I think we could have a lot more projects. This year, GSoC is starting early, so we should be getting in motion asap. From the School Server side of things, there's a lot to do, and many of those tasks can be broken down in small steps that can be tackled by a GSoC student. I would like to setup a few tasks there for OLPC, and I am prepared to mentor a few well-picked students. I have mentored students for the Moodle project last year, and that had excellent results. The moodle team is already on the move preparing things for their GSoC 2008, that's how I caught wind of the early start ;-) cheers, m ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] ___ Server-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [Server-devel] Google Summer of Code and OLPC
On 2/29/08, Sayamindu Dasgupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is there a wiki page (specific to SoC 2008) which can be used to build up a list of ideas ? http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Summer_of_Code/2008 I have been involved in the Summer of Code in 2007 (as a student under GNOME) - and I would love to help organize the SoC efforts from OLPC this year. Thanks, Sayamindu 2008/2/29 Samuel Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks, Martin. That's a great idea; every project should list their needs and think of them in terms of work interns can do. We should also start looking for experienced mentors now who can take on 1-3 projects and give the interns serious feedback. SJ On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 8:28 PM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last year OLPC mentored a couple of GSoC projects - as documented at http://wiki.laptop.org/wiki/OLPC_Google_Summer_of_Code - I think we could have a lot more projects. This year, GSoC is starting early, so we should be getting in motion asap. From the School Server side of things, there's a lot to do, and many of those tasks can be broken down in small steps that can be tackled by a GSoC student. I would like to setup a few tasks there for OLPC, and I am prepared to mentor a few well-picked students. I have mentored students for the Moodle project last year, and that had excellent results. The moodle team is already on the move preparing things for their GSoC 2008, that's how I caught wind of the early start ;-) cheers, m ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] ___ Server-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [Server-devel] Google Summer of Code and OLPC
Thanks for creating the wiki page! I just added this to the Summer of Code 2008 Ideas page: http://wiki.laptop.org/index.php?title=Summer_of_Code/2008 Micropolis I have a long list of interesting ways to develop Micropolis http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Micropolis, which I have written about on my blog http://www.DonHopkins.com! The source code is on Google Code http://code.google.com/p/micropolis, and I've been working on finishing up all the grunt work that requires familiarity with the code and would be hard for other people to do, to enable other people to work on the higher level stuff that depends on that. There are two Micropolis projects: * The old micropolis-activity which is the original TCL/Tk version of SimCity for Unix, which I ported to Linux and adapted to the OLPC. * The new MicropolisCore C++/SWIG/Python module that I've cleaned up and I have started developing a user interface. It would be best to put effort into developing the new MicropolisCore code for the long term, although there are some small tasks that could be done with the old TCL/Tk code for the short term. -Don Hopkins http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Dhopkins Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: Ok - here's the idea page - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Summer_of_Code/2008/Ideas Thanks, Sayamindu ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [Server-devel] Google Summer of Code and OLPC
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok - here's the idea page - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Summer_of_Code/2008/Ideas Thanks, Sayamindu I added a few of the ideas we have discussed on this list, and thought of a few more. Is there any code we need for localization and translation work? For example, to match strings between our Pootle and the one for KhmerOS and automatically populate ours with suggestions? Projects * Integrate espeak engine with all activities, not just Speak, and provide for karaoke coloring. See Mokurai's article on adapting Same Language Subtitling for literacy to the XO. * Sugar Factory, an automated method for Sugarizing non-Python applications. Albert Cahalan has some of this working now. * Localization and Content conversion, for those who don't code. Coders can provide tools. * Document reader with annotation capability * GIS activity for XO. Engineers Without Borders, Timepedia, and International Symposium on Digital Earth want to work with OLPC to create community-based mapping data collection systems that will feed to global mapping and analysis projects, which will then feed back to the children and their communities. Environment, health, agriculture... * Extend Gnash to read more data formats, in particular those at OLPC.tv, and Mary Lou Jepsen's presentation at the Greener Gadgets Conference. Integrate Supat's SSS code and move it upstream. * Feed generated data from simulations or the software synthesizer into the Measure activity. * More generally, support snap-together programming of XO activities in the manner that Turtle Art and Etoys provide internally. -- Edward Cherlin End Poverty at a Profit by teaching children business http://www.EarthTreasury.org/ The best way to predict the future is to invent it.--Alan Kay ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [Server-devel] Google Summer of Code and OLPC
On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok - here's the idea page - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Summer_of_Code/2008/Ideas Thanks, Sayamindu I added a few of the ideas we have discussed on this list, and thought of a few more. Is there any code we need for localization and translation work? For example, to match strings between our Pootle and the one for KhmerOS and automatically populate ours with suggestions? Pootle can use the translation memories used by Khmer OS - I'll look at the exact method to be used. Projects * Integrate espeak engine with all activities, not just Speak, and provide for karaoke coloring. See Mokurai's article on adapting Same Language Subtitling for literacy to the XO. * Sugar Factory, an automated method for Sugarizing non-Python applications. Albert Cahalan has some of this working now. * Localization and Content conversion, for those who don't code. Coders can provide tools. AFAIK - Summer of Code does not support non code related projects. Thanks, Sayamindu -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
