Re: Google Summer of Code: Bring out your projects

2010-04-06 Thread Helder Magalhães
Hi everyone, >> Could anyone >> help understanding what is that exactly? I've crawled through the >> available JIRA projects and saw none related with XML Graphics (Batik, >> FOP, XML Graphics Commons)... (Also, if this is a lengthy process I'd >> hint towards maybe triggering the process now so

Re: Google Summer of Code: Bring out your projects

2010-04-06 Thread Helder Magalhães
Hi everyone, >> If I understand correctly, you can register your proposed projects in >> JIRA, see the above web page. Oops, I missed that sentence; today, while revisiting this thread I noticed that, according to the timeline [1], the proposals will need to be postponed for next year. :-| The

Re: Google Summer of Code: Bring out your projects

2010-04-06 Thread Simon Pepping
On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 04:34:45PM +0100, Helder Magalhães wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Somehow related, in the guide to being a mentor, it's stated in the > procedure that one should "Add an issue to JIRA (if your project > doesn't use JIRA contact d...@community.apache.org)" [2]. Could anyone > hel

Re: Google Summer of Code: Bring out your projects

2010-03-24 Thread Vincent Hennebert
Hi Simon, Simon Pepping wrote: > Thanks to Adrian and Vincent who want to be mentor. We also need some > ideas for projects. > > 1. Our releases require too much work, which has resulted in no > release for much too long a time. How can the work related to a > release be minimized? Can we develop

Re: Google Summer of Code: Bring out your projects

2010-03-22 Thread Simon Pepping
Thanks to Adrian and Vincent who want to be mentor. We also need some ideas for projects. 1. Our releases require too much work, which has resulted in no release for much too long a time. How can the work related to a release be minimized? Can we develop tools to automate much of the work? 2. Imp

Re: Google Summer of Code: Bring out your projects

2010-03-16 Thread Simon Pepping
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 11:58:07AM +0100, Simon Pepping wrote: > > If I understand correctly, you can register your proposed projects in > JIRA, see the above web page. Then you must advertise your projects so > as to attract students; that part is not clear to me. > After some more reading of th

Re: Google Summer of Code: Bring out your projects

2010-03-16 Thread Simon Pepping
We have two committers who are willing to be a mentor, and a few project ideas for Batik. The following is the complete message (which was only sent to the PMCs): --- Forwarded message --- It is time for your project to start preparing for GSoC if you have not already done so. T

Re: Google Summer of Code: Bring out your projects

2010-03-16 Thread Vincent Hennebert
Simon Pepping wrote: > Ross Gardler of ASF announced that it is time for our projects to > start preparing for Google Summer of Code (GSoC). Do we have ideas for > GSoC projects? Are committers willing to be a mentor? If any student comes up with a good idea of project in the FOP area, I’d be happ

Re: Google Summer of Code: Bring out your projects

2010-03-15 Thread Helder Magalhães
Hi everyone, > Do we have ideas for GSoC projects? Actually I have a couple ideas, in the scope of Batik: 1. Online SVG Rasterization Service Create an online service for SVG rasterization, as a valuable way to allow users to benefit from SVG while keeping up with the possibility of using raste

Re: Google Summer of Code: Bring out your projects

2010-03-12 Thread Adrian Cumiskey
Hi Simon, My involvement with FOP these days is a little minimal due to other commitments, but in principle I would be open to the idea of acting as a mentor to a GSoC student. Adrian. On 12 March 2010 12:07, Simon Pepping wrote: > Ross Gardler of ASF announced that it is time for our projects