Re: GSoC 2018: Extracting data from PDF invoices

[Manuel Riel]

I’ve asked my two other contributors who added relevant features in the past. 
Will be in tough when they message back.

My main city is Kuala Lumpur, but I regularly travel to Singapore, Thailand and 
Austria/Germany. Taiwan and Hong Kong are also on the list for May/June.

> On 21 Feb 2018, at 06:36, Daniel Pocock  wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm starting this thread to track contact from potential interns and
> mentors for this project in GSoC and Outreachy.
> 
> If you are interested as a student or mentor please feel free to reply
> on this thread.  Projects won't go ahead without sufficient mentors so
> if you or anybody you know may be interested in mentoring that would
> help a lot.
> 
> Other members of the community are also welcome to reply to individual
> students, for example, if you see a student in the city where you live
> please feel free to invite them to a local event.
> 
> I'm embedding a link in the wiki with this thread ID so replies from
> applicants should be threaded for everybody's convenience.
> 
> Full project details on the wiki[1].
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Daniel
> 
> 
> 1.
> https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2018/Projects#SummerOfCode2018.2FProjects.2FExtractingDataFromPDFInvoicesAndBills.Extracting_data_from_PDF_invoices_and_bills_for_financial_accounting



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Re: response to student applications

[Daniel Pocock]

On 16/02/18 19:22, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> 
> I'd like to thank everybody who applied to one of my project ideas
> already and also those who responded to some of them on IRC.
> 


Attention all students who contacted me using my personal email address:
please now look at the wiki[1] again, I've added links that help you
write a more complete application email.  Please re-submit your
application using those links.

Please also note that we are still having discussions about the
structure of the GSoC admin team in Debian and so it may be a few more
days before we prioritize our list of projects.  It is possible that
some of the projects without more than one mentor may be de-prioritized
or removed from the list.

For any of my projects, if you complete a coding task now and then we
decide that project won't go ahead, I am still willing to look at the
work you have contributed as part of your application for any of my
other projects based on the same skills.  For example, several of the
projects involve Python, so if you make an application for one of them
and submit an example of your Python skills, I would potentially
consider you for any of the other Python projects too.

Regards,

Daniel

1. https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2018/Projects

GSoC 2018: Telify replacement

[Daniel Pocock]

Hi all,

I'm starting this thread to track contact from potential interns and
mentors for this project in GSoC and Outreachy.

If you are interested as a student or mentor please feel free to reply
on this thread.  Projects won't go ahead without sufficient mentors so
if you or anybody you know may be interested in mentoring that would
help a lot.

Other members of the community are also welcome to reply to individual
students, for example, if you see a student in the city where you live
please feel free to invite them to a local event.

I'm embedding a link in the wiki with this thread ID so replies from
applicants should be threaded for everybody's convenience.

Full project details on the wiki[1].

Regards,

Daniel


1.
https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2018/Projects#SummerOfCode2018.2FProjects.2FCreateASuccessorToTelifyUsingWebExtensions.Create_a_successor_to_the_Telify_plugin_using_WebExtensions

GSoC 2018: Broadcast data from GPredict

[Daniel Pocock]

Hi all,

I'm starting this thread to track contact from potential interns and
mentors for this project in GSoC and Outreachy.

If you are interested as a student or mentor please feel free to reply
on this thread.  Projects won't go ahead without sufficient mentors so
if you or anybody you know may be interested in mentoring that would
help a lot.

Other members of the community are also welcome to reply to individual
students, for example, if you see a student in the city where you live
please feel free to invite them to a local event.

I'm embedding a link in the wiki with this thread ID so replies from
applicants should be threaded for everybody's convenience.

Full project details on the wiki[1].

Regards,

Daniel



1.
https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2018/Projects#SummerOfCode2018.2FProjects.2FBroadcastDataFromGPredictForOtherHamRadioApplications.Broadcast_data_from_GPredict_for_other_Ham_Radio_Applications

GSoC 2018: Kanban Board for Debian Bug Tracker

[Daniel Pocock]

Hi all,

I'm starting this thread to track contact from potential interns and
mentors for this project in GSoC and Outreachy.

If you are interested as a student or mentor please feel free to reply
on this thread.  Projects won't go ahead without sufficient mentors so
if you or anybody you know may be interested in mentoring that would
help a lot.

Other members of the community are also welcome to reply to individual
students, for example, if you see a student in the city where you live
please feel free to invite them to a local event.

I'm embedding a link in the wiki with this thread ID so replies from
applicants should be threaded for everybody's convenience.

Full project details on the wiki[1].

Regards,

Daniel



1.
https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2018/Projects#SummerOfCode2018.2FProjects.2FKanbanBoardForDebianBugTrackerAndCalDAVServers.Kanban_Board_for_Debian_Bug_Tracker_and_CalDAV_servers

GSoC 2018: Calendar database of social events

[Daniel Pocock]

Hi all,

I'm starting this thread to track contact from potential interns and
mentors for this project in GSoC and Outreachy.

If you are interested as a student or mentor please feel free to reply
on this thread.  Projects won't go ahead without sufficient mentors so
if you or anybody you know may be interested in mentoring that would
help a lot.

Other members of the community are also welcome to reply to individual
students, for example, if you see a student in the city where you live
please feel free to invite them to a local event.

I'm embedding a link in the wiki with this thread ID so replies from
applicants should be threaded for everybody's convenience.

Full project details on the wiki[1].

Regards,

Daniel


1.
https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2018/Projects#SummerOfCode2018.2FProjects.2FSocialEventAndConferenceCalendars.A_calendar_database_of_social_events_and_conferences

Re: Suggestion on social event and conference calendars project

[Daniel Pocock]

On 14/02/18 05:23, frem wrote:
> On 02/02/18 14:54, Daniel Pocock wrote:
>> On 02/02/18 14:48, frem wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I’m Fred and I’m subscribe to this mailing list to talk about the
>> > Social event and conference calendars project.
>>
>> Welcome, did you have any ideas or suggestions for the project after
>> looking at the wiki page about it?
>>
>> Will you be at FOSDEM this weekend?  Several of us will be there.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Daniel
> 
> Unfortunately, I couldn't be at FOSDEM.
> 
> For the Social event and conference calendars project, I know a project
> that seems relevant : OpenEventDatabase
> (https://github.com/openeventdatabase/)
> Manual and functionalities already implemented :
> https://github.com/openeventdatabase/backend/wiki
> 
> Ideas about this project start on OpenStreetMap datamodel versatility
> (key-value for all) and the need of a database for the « when » main
> axis (OSM is for the where…).
> 
> Christian Quest (OSM France ex-president) start talking about this on
> 2013 (on hackpad, now unavailable).
> He talk about that on 2016 OSM conference :
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FNwbioRjQw
> The database and API start to be implemented on 2016-05.
> 
> This project already collect events from existing Open Databases, like
> the « Agenda du Libre » (https://www.agendadulibre.org/) and many
> OpenData French sources.
> 
> http://live.openeventdatabase.org/
> https://twitter.com/openeventdb (french)
> 
> The security and events ownership model is still simple. I have ideas to
> improve contribution process and collaboration but for this moment not
> writed in english…
> 
> I know that my suggestion is really late.
> I hope this project will help you to reach your goal.
> 
> I’m also interested to contribute to a web front-end for the database
> you choose.
> And to integrate events from others data sources (pyvideo datas, local
> cultural and association events…)
> 

Thanks for this feedback, would you be able to edit these things into
the wiki page?

https://wiki.debian.org/SocialEventAndConferenceCalendars

Re: Kanboard and alternatives for mentoring

[Louis-Philippe Véronneau]

> - we probably need to get some feedback from DebConf team, they already
> discuss[1] it, maybe somebody will be willing to comment in this thread.
>  Two specific questions for DebConf team: are you happy with Kanboard or
> might you use another solution for 2019?  Do you see a possibility of
> running a shared instance of it or do you really want your instance to
> be DebConf only?

I've been using KanBoard for a while now, both for DebConf and for my
job. I'm also the one doing most of the admin work for the
kanban.debian.net instance at the moment.

I can't speak for the DC19 folks, but I like KanBoard a lot. The main
developer is doing a lot of work and KanBoard keeps improving. The
available plugins are nice too. Overall, it seems like a mature project.

We are currently in the process of migrating the kanban.debian.net
instance to DSA infrastructure. DSA has been very responsive and the
only reason this has not been done yet is that I don't have a lot of
spare time these days.

At the moment, this instance is hosted on the personal server of an
ex-dc17 team member, and thus not suitable for massive usage.

Once migrated to DSA infra, I have plans to make it available to the
whole Debian project. I have to talk with DSA about it, but as I see it,
the easiest path would be to use the Gitlab plugin and to let people
authenticate using their salsa.debian.org account.

If I had to give an ETA on this, I would say it should be done in 3
months? My university semester will be over and I should be a DD by
then, making it easier for DSA to give me access to a VM.

Hope that helps,

-- 
pollo



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Re: admin team and delegation status, volunteers?

[Dashamir Hoxha]

On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 11:23 AM, Daniel Pocock  wrote:

>
>
> On 19/02/18 20:44, Dashamir Hoxha wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 10:36 AM, Daniel Pocock  > > wrote:
> >
> >
> > Who would potentially want to be an admin
> >
> >
> > If more admins are needed, I would volunteer to be one.
> > Seeing that people with more experience and contributions than me
> > are reluctant of becoming an admin, probably I don't know
> > what I am doing to myself. Anyway I am still curious.
> >
>
> I'll be at the BSP in Tirana and we can talk about it there.


I am curious to see what it takes to be an admin. There is nothing to
explain
about it. And maybe I will not be in Tirana.

Dashamir

Re: admin team and delegation status, volunteers?

[Daniel Pocock]

On 20/02/18 07:49, Molly de Blanc wrote:
> More admins are -definitely- needed all around--for Outreachy and GSoC.
> 

Great, as you may be the last man standing in the existing delegation it
is really helpful to have you confirm that


> I am personally disinclined to add more tools to process (I have enough
> trouble keeping track of the tools I'm already using). If this is
> something people are enthusiastic about, I'd be happy to try something.
> Can we split this into a new thread if people want to talk about it more?
> 

Yes, there is already a thread for Kanboard, could you reply on that?

Before you make any conclusions, could you try participating in one of
our Jitsi Meet calls with Renata to see how we use the Kanboard?  That
is described in the other thread too.

Regards,

Daniel

Re: Regarding Google Summer of Code 2018

[Abel Update]

Hi!

It seems to me that Daniel Pocock doesn't respond to student mail. There is a 
longtime I wrote to him but no answer.

Kind regards,
Abel Lifaefi Mbula Free Software Dev
Free Culture Enthousiast

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 Original Message 
On February 20, 2018 7:11 AM, Dashamir Hoxha  wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 11:13 PM, Aman Pratap Singh  
> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I am Aman Pratap Singh, a CSE major at Indian Institute of Technology 
>> Bhubaneswar. I am writing this with regard to Debian organization's project 
>> idea for Google Summer of Code titled Firefox and Thunderbird plugins for 
>> free software habits. I am interested in working on this project.
>> I request to please brief me with steps to getting started.
>> Sincerely,
>> Aman Pratap Singh
>> https://amanpratapsingh.in
>
> It seems to me kind of spamming if all the students post to debian-outreach 
> and ask for help.
> This is why each project has its own mentors. Otherwise it is just stealing 
> valuable time from everyone.
> Maybe I am wrong, but I think that students should not be allowed to ask for 
> help on debian-outreach.
> They should contact the mentors instead.
>
> Dashamir