Andreas,
thanks for the interest in working on Shotwell for Google Summer of
Code, and apologies for the long delay in responding - as you probably
know the Yorba team has been pretty busy working toward the upcoming 0.9
release. I'm happy to report that Yorba has applied to be a Summer of
Code mentoring organization this year. You can see our list of project
ideas here:
http://trac.yorba.org/wiki/SummerCodeIdeas
We've also listed our ideas on the GNOME Summer of Code 2011 page:
http://live.gnome.org/SummerOfCode2011/Ideas
So this gives two possible ways to participate: Yorba can mentor these
projects if it is accepted as a mentoring organization, and otherwise
GNOME could be the mentoring organization, assuming it itself is accepted.
Note that last year (2010) Yorba also applied to be a mentoring
organization and was not accepted. Perhaps this is because Shotwell
competes with Picasa, or maybe just because we're not large or
well-established enough. We'll see what happens this year (we'll find
out later this week).
I do think that the Shotwell server idea might be too big for a Summer
of Code project, however. We do want to take that on someday, but there
are lots of open questions to answer about how exactly Shotwell should
work in a client/server situation and I think making this all work well
is probably a major project for the core team. If you have a
well-developed vision for exactly how this should work and how you would
modify Shotwell to make that happen, feel free to post it here and we
can discuss more. Otherwise I'd encourage you to look at our ideas page
for other projects that I think would be easier to take on this summer.
Cheers -
adam
On 03/08/2011 03:12 PM, Andreas Brauchli wrote:
Since I haven't heard from any yorba official, I would like to point out
that the application deadline for projects to GSoC 2011 is the 12th
March.
I think that it would be a missed opportunity not to participate, even
though it would be understandable not to take part for the simple reason
of needing to provide mentors which would remove manpower from the
already small yorba team.
Still I, and probably others, would love to spend a summer hacking on
shotwell :)
Best regards
andreas
On Son, 2011-02-13 at 23:37 +0100, Andreas Brauchli wrote:
Dear shotwell team
are there any plans for yorba/shotwell to apply for the google summer of
code 2011? I've seen last year's wiki page [1] and would totally love to
work on shotwell this summer!
What i have in mind is the idea of a multi-user/multi-computer shotwell
or shotwell server instance (something like [2]) so that a photo
collection can be simultaneously accessed and modified from multiple
frontends but would also allow each shotwell instance - think on a
laptop - to locally cache (parts of) the collection.
Students, please voice yourselves to encourage yorba to apply for a gsoc
spot and to provide some mentors - and the others to suggest or point
out feature requests that would keep a student busy for a good summer of
code.
GSoC website: http://www.google-melange.com/
cheers
andreas
[1] http://trac.yorba.org/wiki/SummerCodeIdeas
[2] http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1572
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