[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Google Summer of Code 2011 application?

[McIntyre, Mary]

What do we think about this -

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On Feb 7, 2011, at 5:42 PM, "Dan Scott" <dan at coffeecode.net> wrote:

> Per my action item from the last developer meeting
> (http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=dev:meetings: 
> 2011-02-01),
> I agreed to forward this information to the list to see if there is
> interest and resources available to put together an application for  
> the
> Google Summer of Code.
>
> The Google Summer of Code program “offers student developers stipend 
> s to
> write code for various open source software projects” (paid for by
> Google). The project needs to provide mentors for the students - who  
> may
> never have participated in an open source project before, so mentoring
> includes not just understanding the code base, but understanding IRC /
> mailing lists / version control / submitting patches etc - and the  
> goal
> is for the students to contribute actual working code to the project.
>
> For those who are skeptical that students can get up to speed and
> actually contribute something during a single summer in an area as
> wonderfully strange as ours, please note that projects such as  
> "Biblios"
> began as a Google Summer of Code project.
>
> Projects can apply beginning February 28th, 2011; the application
> deadline is March 11; projects are notified about whether they're
> eligible on March 18th.
>
> Putting together a good application requires some effort, but the
> pay-off could be high… not just for the code produced during the sum 
> mer,
> but by getting one or more potential Evergreen developers in the
> community.
>
> Ideas for possible projects include (but are not limited to!):
>  * Some of our post-2.0 planning topics (rewrite the OPAC (in fast,
> lightweight, buzzword-friendly HTML5?); move to Dojo 1.5+)
>  * Enable external authentication methods like LDAP/OpenID
>  * Rewrite Perl code in C where performance blockers are identified
>  * Write Ruby / PHP / other OpenSRF clients and pertinent Evergreen  
> classes like
> Fieldmapper
>  * Add OpenSRF-over-HTTP as an option to Perl / Python / Java
>  * Write an Android client for Evergreen (this work is actually  
> already
> underway as a class project at Purdue, believe it or not)
>
> If we wrap up our Conservancy agreement before the application  
> deadline,
> that might help simplify some of the financial details and avoid any
> questions about what organization needs to deal with that overhead.
>
> Special guest Chris Cormack dropped by to discuss his experience as a
> Google Summer of Code mentor; in short, the timing doesn't work well  
> for
> New Zealand because students are in school during North America's
> summer, and the bulk of the work is in the application and evaluation
> paperwork, but he recommended it as worthwhile for North Americans.
>
> So, do we have available, willing, able mentors from the development
> community?
>  * Dan Scott volunteered to mentor
>  * Jeff Godin semi-volunteered to mentor, availability to be  
> determined
>  * ...
>
> If we have ideas (there's no lack of available coding projects, in my
> opinion!) and we have willing mentors (we need some help there), do we
> have volunteers to create an application for the Google Summer of  
> Code?