GSOC 2018 - Final call for project ideas and mentors

[Seb via Digitalmars-d-announce]

Hi all,

Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2018 is about to start soon [1] (the 
deadline for organizations is next Tuesday, 23.1).
So if you have any project ideas or things that you consider 
important to the D ecosystem - please let me know!


And, of course, if you would be willing to mentor a student, 
don't forget to tell me.
You can always reach me via mail (seb [at] wilzba [dot] ch) or on 
Slack (dlang.slack.com). There's also a special #gsoc channel.


The current list of projects is at [1] - it's still WIP.

@Students: if you have any questions or maybe have an idea for a 
project yourself, please feel free to contact me. I'm more than 
happy to help!


I am looking forward to hearing what you think can be done in 
three months by a student and will have a huge impact on the D 
ecosystem.


Cheers,

Seb

[1] https://wiki.dlang.org/GSOC_2018_Ideas

Re: The ShionKeys project has quietly raised money on indiegogo

[ShionKeys via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Tuesday, 16 January 2018 at 19:15:52 UTC, artishu wrote:

On Monday, 15 January 2018 at 06:54:04 UTC, ShionKeys wrote:

ShionKeys: I want to change the world
World: You will be alone
... ...
https://igg.me/at/ShionKeys/x/17399884
https://vimeo.






speak more about benefit's:

how long does it take to learn ?
how easy is using it ?
how fast can we type with it ?
etc... (prepare numbers so people be able to compare)

people should feel need this thing...


It's faster than Dvorako matl,,,because ergonomics + fewer keys 
make it less error-prone, shorter finger movement, and it only 
takes a day of practice.

Re: The ShionKeys project has quietly raised money on indiegogo

[ShionKeys via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Tuesday, 16 January 2018 at 19:15:52 UTC, artishu wrote:

On Monday, 15 January 2018 at 06:54:04 UTC, ShionKeys wrote:

ShionKeys: I want to change the world
World: You will be alone
... ...
https://igg.me/at/ShionKeys/x/17399884
https://vimeo.






speak more about benefit's:

how long does it take to learn ?
how easy is using it ?
how fast can we type with it ?
etc... (prepare numbers so people be able to compare)

people should feel need this thing...


My GitHub has what you want, and I don't have anyone to help me 
make some contrasts right now. I'm worried that people will say 
I'm cracking down on QWERTY.

Re: The ShionKeys project has quietly raised money on indiegogo

[meppl via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Tuesday, 16 January 2018 at 19:15:52 UTC, artishu wrote:

On Monday, 15 January 2018 at 06:54:04 UTC, ShionKeys wrote:

ShionKeys: I want to change the world
World: You will be alone
... ...
https://igg.me/at/ShionKeys/x/17399884
https://vimeo.



speak more about benefit's:

how long does it take to learn ?
how easy is using it ?
how fast can we type with it ?
etc... (prepare numbers so people be able to compare)

people should feel need this thing...



It doesn't take too long actually. Some weeks at most.
I was using , which is using more layers 
than the common keyboard layouts. but "neo" has a big problem. 
those very free keyboard layouts often don't work, because common 
applications have the power to do the work of the keyboard driver 
(e.g. by binding the "alt"-key to the common usage).
Thus, i am interested in a solution who just works. Maybe writing 
a new hackish keyboard usb driver who is replacing the key codes 
before any other software becomes into play  would solve the 
problem.

Re: [howto] Serve ddox documentation on github.io deployed by Travis CI

[Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Saturday, 13 January 2018 at 11:42:42 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo 
wrote:
On Saturday, 13 January 2018 at 10:02:18 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
wrote:

On 2018-01-13 05:59, Martin Nowak wrote:
On Wednesday, 10 January 2018 at 08:50:37 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo 
wrote:
Maybe worthwile to add this scaffolding to dub or some 
other tool? Anyone volunteering?


This could be a good idea. Probably even better is to let 
code.dlang.org take care of it, which would make the whole 
token issue and setup obsolete.


What do you mean with "taking care of it"?


Perhaps to automatically generate documentation for all 
packages on code.dlang.org and publish it there as well.


Yes that is what I meant, sorry for being vague. It’s been 
suggested before I think. It would be a lot more work than what 
you are suggesting and one does not have to exclude the other: 
a bot could clone the project repositories and generate 
documentation for each, without project owners needing to 
manage tokens.


I don't think it's good idea to centralize this.
First the existing tools are easy enough to use, though some 
articles are necessary to spread the knowledge.
Second it'd put more burden on very few people that are already 
maintaining an unproportionate part of the overall ecosystem.
Third ppl. might want to use different doc generators, styles, or 
host a project site.
Fourth you create new problems like CSRF when hostings docs on 
one domain, hence github pages have one subdomain per user.


We might want to add a configurable doc link to project settings 
on the registry, but the Readme is already a good or even better 
place.

Re: The ShionKeys project has quietly raised money on indiegogo

[artishu via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Wednesday, 17 January 2018 at 19:57:35 UTC, Anton Pastukhov 
wrote:

This is just another spammer


yes, of course...
changing the keyboard layout is like changing the speaking 
language, there should be very strong reason to change that.


i remember i was using keyboard as seek and peck for about 10 
years...
2 years ago i bought a laptop that unfortunately hasn't my native 
language label's
that was a pain, but since then i started to learn typing with 
all fingers.