On Wednesday, 5 November 2014 at 10:46:20 UTC, Jens Mueller via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
This is my second Call for Proposals for the 2015 Google
Summer of
Code. Anyone interested in mentoring, or who has good idea's
for a
project for 2015 please post here. So far I have the following
people who have expressed interest in mentoring:
Mentor's with specific projects in mind:
Mentor Project Area(s)
Amaury Sechet (Deadalnix): SDC - D Compiler as a library
Martin Nowak ARM Support and Bare Metal D
Iain Buclaw GDC
I have a pretty good set of specific idea's from Deadalnix,
but I
could use more specific project ideas for Martin and Iain.
A few others have volunteered to mentor, and have given general
areas of interest, but I don't really have specific project
suggestions from:
Andrei Alexandrescu Phobos
Rikki Cattermole Web Development
Russel Winder Phobos/QML: std.parallelism,
std.benchmark
Jacob Ovrum std.i18n
Jens Mueller std.socket, std.log, std.benchmark,
std.numeric.matrix
Remove std.log from that list (as it is almost finished by
Robert).
I still mentor for improving std.socket (though I would need
community
input from what the community likes to be changed (preferably
though
issues.dlang.org)) and std.benchmark (together with Russel if he
wants to share the work), and still interested in having
std.numeric.matrix (I believe others too).
Arguably the descriptions on
http://wiki.dlang.org/GSOC_2014_Ideas are
very short.
<snip more ideas />
A few other questions for the community (and possible mentors).
1. I was thinking that as a way of making our idea's/mentor's
lists
to stand out I would like to post short Bio's on each mentor -
pictures would be nice too, but maybe some potential mentors
would
be put off by that. If possible I would also like to post a
link to
the mentor's talks at DConf (espcially if the talk is related
to the
project idea(s)). This should set our idea's list apart from
most
I have seen so far. Of course I would only post a bio/picture
with
the potential mentor's consent.
Fine with me.
2. I am supposed to have a backup GSOC administrator, in case
I pass
away unexpectedly or become otherwise incapacitated. Any
volunteers
!
3. We also should have backup mentors - if you feel comfortable
serving as a backup mentor for one of the posted project ideas
then
please let me know.
4. I am supposed to summarize our involvement and the
successes and
challenges of our participation for previous years, and list
our
pass/fail rate for each year. Can anyone on the forum fill me
in on
some of this information, especially if you have mentored in
the
past, or better yet are a past GSOC student still involved
with D.
I believe you should get access to the past GSOC's on
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2015?PageSpeed=noscript
Andrei should have access to these. You should find there
everything.
I did a bit of searching, and here are our entry's for 2012:
Project Student Mentor
Mono-D Alex Bothe LightBender
Removing the global gc
lock from common
allocations in D. Antti-Ville Tuunainen David Simcha
Extended unicode
support Dmitry Olshansky Andrei Alexandrescu
That is a pretty promising list, as it seems that our past
students are still involved in the community. I will do some
more searching, but need to get to work now :o)
I'd like to add that I firmly believe that we should strive for
a short
list of important projects than a long list of anything. I say
no more
than seven projects that the community likes to see addressed
that allow
students getting involved in D. Make it few but exceptional
strong.
It's fine to brainstorm now and cut down later. But I want to
see that
cut down before polishing the project's description etc.
Thank you very much for the effort you are putting into it -
invaluable.
Jens
Thanks, I agree that we should have a few well defined projects.
It seems that Google puts lots of emphasis on the "Project Ideas"
page, so I think over the next few months I will try to make that
the best possible.
