Summer of Code 2009

2009-01-19 Thread Daniel Stenberg
Hey friends (This post is cross-posted, please take follow-ups only on the dev list as this should be considered merely informational on the users list.) Google has announced that they will run Summer of Code again this year, 2009. Even if with somewhat less students and thus somewhat less

Re: Summer of Code 2009

2009-01-19 Thread Alex Bennee
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Daniel Stenberg dan...@haxx.se wrote: Hey friends (This post is cross-posted, please take follow-ups only on the dev list as this should be considered merely informational on the users list.) snip Inspiration from previous years can be extracted from the

Re: Version Strings

2009-01-19 Thread Torne Wuff
On Thu, Jan 15 09 at 3:43:44PM +, Alex Bennee wrote: Ok I'll tweak it to that format. I still think having dirty adds useful information. It may be worth just dumping that into rockbox-info.txt Can you post your copy of the script and I'll slurb the bzr bit into it of you want. Patch

Re: Summer of Code 2009

2009-01-19 Thread Thomas Martitz
Daniel Stenberg schrieb: I am personally of the opinion that we need to have at least a few really good ideas present to even bother to apply as an organization. Well, two ideas come almost immediately into my mind. Rockbox as an Application and Multifont. I have a few ideas regarding

Re: Summer of Code 2009

2009-01-19 Thread Austin Appel
Thomas Martitz wrote: How much time is between being accepted as organization and gathering students? You can look at last year's timeline here: http://code.google.com/opensource/gsoc/2008/faqs.html#0.1_timeline While the dates for this year's GSoC have not been announced yet, they should

Re: Summer of Code 2009

2009-01-19 Thread Jonas Häggqvist
Daniel Stenberg wrote: If we want Rockbox to participate in this venture yet again I'm convinced that we need to cough up a bunch of high quality ideas and suggestions for possible students to use for inspiration. How about creating a standalone library (in plain C, preferably) for dealing

Re: Summer of Code 2009

2009-01-19 Thread Mark Allums
Jonas Häggqvist wrote: Daniel Stenberg wrote: If we want Rockbox to participate in this venture yet again I'm convinced that we need to cough up a bunch of high quality ideas and suggestions for possible students to use for inspiration. Time for more of my crazy talk. No one thought highly

Re: Summer of Code 2009

2009-01-19 Thread Dan Everton
On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:56 -0600, Mark Allums m...@allums.com wrote: Time for more of my crazy talk. No one thought highly of my idea of implementing a subset of dot.NET/mono, and creating a Python interpreter that runs on it. Well, speaking of crazy talk, maybe the LUA interpreter might be

Re: Summer of Code 2009

2009-01-19 Thread Mark Allums
Dan Everton wrote: On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:56 -0600, Mark Allums m...@allums.com wrote: Time for more of my crazy talk. No one thought highly of my idea of implementing a subset of dot.NET/mono, and creating a Python interpreter that runs on it. Well, speaking of crazy talk, maybe the LUA

Re: Summer of Code 2009

2009-01-19 Thread Mark Allums
Paul Louden wrote: Mark Allums wrote: Here's another one: A hypervisor for ARM than runs on exactly one or two CPUs (I'm thinking of my Sansa e280) and allows the creation of a Rockbox HAL---Hardware Abstraction Layer. With the RHAL, Rockbox can be standardized, one binary for any