Xavier Glattard wrote: > Adam Fedor a écrit : >> >> On Mar 10, 2009, at 7:25 AM, Xavier Glattard wrote: >> >>> I don't know what are the requirements for mentors, but I would be >>> glad to help and take care of one small project :) >> >> A big factor in how many students google gives us is the number of >> students who apply to work with us, so the more ideas and more >> advertisement we get, the better chance to get more students and more >> work done. > > So i just have to add my name and (many) ideas in the lists ? > > I don't live in a big city. I can think of 2 or 3 tiny computer > engineering schools nearby (less than 100km). Around 100 students. I > don't expect many of these students would apply to work on GNUstep. > Do we have to rely on Google for advertisement ?
Don't worry about location. Last year I never met the person I was mentoring direct, although it might have helped. But time difference is really an issue, if it takes a full day to get a reply to a question (or at least for a full round trip) the process gets tedious. As Adam explained, the whole process isn't well suited for non-American students, but there isn't much, we can do about that. For this year, if we have enough mentors I was thinking about having two mentors per student. As far as I know, Google doesn't support that concept directly, but it surely would have helped me last year having a co-mentor to discuss how to deal with the student and to give support while I was on holiday. > As I'm working on gscoredata I can submit some ideas about it. Some of > the already submitted ideas will still apply after my work. > http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Summer_Of_Code_Ideas > - SQLite, XML, binary, etc. NSPersistentStore subclasses > - improve DataBuilder.app > - file formats compatible with Cocoa, including model. > > About the backend : > - unified backend : Windows and X11 backends share a lot of > functionalities... > - Cairo/Glitz/OpenGL backend : needs some work on Glitz I'm afraid > - Cairo/DirectFB backend : someone posted here about that some > months ago > > About AppKit: > - NSMovie/QTMovie class based on vlc or other... > - NSOpenGLPixelBuffer class > > Does GAP stand for "Application project" ? Does that mean that any > GNUstep/Cocoa based project could be submitted ? And not only GNUstep > specific. > - new 3DKit > - multiplatform OpenGL extensions API (glu-like) > - multiplatform HID API : joystick... > Or any graphic or gaming related project in which some students will > surely be interested. > > > Some open source Cocoa applications might be ported to GNUstep: > - Vim GUI : two cocoa-based gui projects already exist > - Mozilla Gecko : many cocoa projects > - OpenOffice : released some week ago > - VLC > - NetHack3D > http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl?CocoaOpen > http://osx.hyperjeff.net/Apps/apps?sub=100&t=1&s=on > > If there is no objection I will soon add these ideas in the list. These sound great to me. _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list Discuss-gnustep@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep