Re: [Dspace-devel] Fwd: [GSoC Mentors Announce] Google Summer of Code 2013

2013-02-12 Thread helix84
Just noting that we still have many unrealized ideas from the past GSoCs, see the following, including subpages: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/GSOC/DSpace+Summer+of+Code+Ideas Also there's plenty of inspiration in our Jira. Tim, I don't remember, were we chosen as a mentoring organization

Re: [Dspace-devel] Fwd: [GSoC Mentors Announce] Google Summer of Code 2013

2013-02-12 Thread Tim Donohue
On 2/12/2013 4:10 AM, helix84 wrote: Tim, I don't remember, were we chosen as a mentoring organization in 2012? Last year (2012), unfortunately DuraSpace just missed the cut. But, we were a Google Summer of Code mentoring organization from 2007-2010 (as DSpace Federation) and in 2011 (as

Re: [Dspace-devel] Fwd: [GSoC Mentors Announce] Google Summer of Code 2013

2013-02-12 Thread Peter Dietz
Perhaps if we had more wood behind fewer arrows. (That's Larry Page speak for higher quality.) Call me crazy, but I would like to see (sanity check me please), a Hydra Head with DSpace as the backend. This gives us a Ruby on Rails app that is a consumer of our REST API. Peter Dietz On Tue,

[Dspace-devel] Fwd: [GSoC Mentors Announce] Google Summer of Code 2013

2013-02-11 Thread Tim Donohue
Hi DSpace Developers, Just wanted to forward on this announcement from Google that Summer of Code will be happening again this year. Please help spread the word! Also, this obviously means it is time to start brainstorming ideas for possible DSpace projects. DuraSpace plans to apply again