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

[Shwaish, Roni]

I saw this as well and i was going to bring it up.  This is great idea I think we should add it to our agenda for our Monday meeting. And we can talk about it in more detail. 

Roni Shwaish
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On Feb 7, 2011, at 7:44 PM, "McIntyre, Mary" <mcintyrem at einetwork.net> wrote:

> What do we think about this -
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> 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?