On 02/01/14 01:59, Olemis Lang wrote:
> On 1/1/14, Gary Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 01/01/14 17:48, Olemis Lang wrote:
>>> Application submission deadline for Google Summer of Code is
>>> approaching (3 February - 19:00 UTC) . Shall we start thinking in
>>> advance about any submissions ?
>>>
>> As far as I am aware that is not something that we do independently of
>> the ASF.
> yes, agreed ...
>
>> I'll keep my eye out for any relevant discussions but we still
>> have a good amount of time before we have to produce potential projects.
>>
> ... what I had in mind initially (maybe not so evident in my previous
> message , sorry) was to suggest spending some time on thinking about
> what projects (related to Bloodhound) could be appropriate to suggest
> for GSoC students to handle , and prepare ourselves (and the code in
> /trunk if necessary ;) to better help them in completing their
> assignment .
>
> <joke>I do not know whether the speed of light is still the same , but
> last year was so intense that I barely noticed the duration of a whole
> month ...</joke>
>
> fwiw , just to start , an initial proposal I had in mind was to
> implement an in-browser PDF file viewer powered by pdf.js [1]_ (or
> equivalent) tightly integrated with core MIME API for previews, but
> ... maybe this will require to work towards relaxing file size limits
> in API methods ... Does this make any sense so as to deserve becoming
> an actual GSoC proposal ?
>
> .. [1] http://mozillalabs.com/pdfjs
>
I won't try to comment on the merit of the suggested project at this
point but more project ideas like that would be fantastic to see. What I
will say is that I see no particular reason to provide code to support
the ideas or to put in too much extra effort into preparing ourselves in
advance to help complete their assignment except in any more general sense.
Sorry if that sounds a bit dismissive of some of your suggestions there
but we can't really guide students to choose projects to the extent
required to focus preparation on any. Instead, having a good range of
interesting projects may capture the imagination of students. It is also
worth remembering that good project ideas direct from prospective
students are likely to be viewed even more favourably.
So, please keep coming up with the great ideas. They will certainly be
worth it if they attract GSoC students (and, indeed, non-GSoC
contributors too.)
Cheers,
Gary
