On 03/03/2011 16:17, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 3/3/11 3:48 AM, Jens Mueller wrote:
Dear list,
Trass3r brought it up and I think it's a very good idea. D is lacking
some man power. The mentoring deadline is 11th of March. There are
important and interesting projects students may work on.
I'm writing this post seeking answers to
1. What's the "official" D stand on this matter?
2. Are there already students who have time and would like to join? What
are you interested in?
The first question is currently the more important one. The organization
administrator has to submit an application until the above deadline.
The purpose of the second question is to get some feedback whether it
would be worthwhile to submit an application. Because later on students
need to propose/join a project.
Jens
PS
The FAQs on http://code.google.com/soc/ is very helpful.
Thanks for this idea. I plan to submit an organization application. As
of now I'm unclear whether Digital Mars would be the best organization
to apply, as opposed to an unincorporated "d-programming-language.org"
entity. I'll discuss this with Walter. All, please chime in if you have
related experience.
We have a number of good projects to work on:
* XML library
* Networking library
* IDE
* Lexer/parser generator
* Containers
* Encryption/hashing
* Thrift bindings
* ...
Andrei
This would be great indeed, to have some help from Google Summer of
Code, but I fear it might be difficult to get ourselves accepted as a
mentoring organization.
I did apply to GSoC once, as a student, in 2006, but this was a year
where they allowed applications without a mentoring organization
(although you would still need a mentoring individual). It was the last
year they allowed that though (as well as the students themselves
defining the proposal).
We might try something like this: "Tcl/Tk Community" -
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/show/google/gsoc2010/tcltk as it
would be an accurate representation of what a D mentoring organization
could be... we are "only" a community right now, there is no formal
organization, nor do we represent a single project like some other
organizations do. But the Google guys are smart, and if we can
demonstrate wide enough interest in our open-source projects, that
should be enough. Not an easy thing given D's current popularity, but
still, definitely worth a try.
--
Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer
