GSOC - Holiday Edition

[Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d]

I was hoping folks to take a brief break from bickering about 
features, and arguing over which posters have been naughty, and 
which have been nice, to get a bit of input on our 2015 Google 
Summer of Code Proposal  ... :o)


First off, I've been able to get some work done on the Idea's 
page, it is here:

http://wiki.dlang.org/GSOC_2015_Ideas

This is the most important part of our submission, but we are 
also supposed to submit a organizational proposal.  I've started 
on this too (still under construction, and have put it on Github 
at:

https://github.com/craig-dillabaugh/dlang-gsoc2015

Any feedback is welcome.


There are currently six project proposals.  I think it would be 
good to have one or two more, and the ones that are there need a 
bit of polishing. A lot of what is there is stuff I have 
'harvested' from previous proposals. For the GDC and Bare Metal 
D/Arm Support projects I am not even sure if the items listed are 
still needed since these are basically cut and paste jobs from 1 
or 2 years ago.

A few specific questions that I need answered.

General Questions

1) I would like to include bio's for the mentors.  I have a very 
short one for Iain (which I stole from DConf) and a line on 
Deadalinx, but that is about that.  If you are a mentor I would 
really appreciate a brief 3-4 line bio. I think this makes our 
'ideas' page stand out from others I have seen. Any mentors 
please provide bios, or if you are uncomfortable with that please 
let me know.

2) For all projects, in addition to mentor bios I want to have a 
section on what students should know (or be willing to learn), 
you can see SDC for an example. Could other potential mentors 
please fill me on your projects.  Basically, if you can give 
pointers to a few good resources for someone interested in your 
project that would be great.

3) I would like to have a 'backup' mentor for each project.  Any 
volunteers! I think we have enough for the Phobos project, but 
other projects could really use something.

4) Finally, I should have a backup administrator.  Any volunteers 
for that.


Questions for Specific Individuals

5) For GDC, can Iain (or someone else related to that project) 
update the wiki, post something here, or get in touch with me to 
update the project proposal.

6) See #2 for Martin Nowak and the Bare Metal D/Arm projects.

7) Bruno Medeiros - you suggested a DDT project. I've added it.  
Can you provide me with a few more details, and a bio.   Also, 
under what license is DDT released, I couldn't access any code on 
your GitHub page to check this.

8) Russel Winder and QML ... see #4.

9) For the Phobos proposal, most of this is scrapped from last 
years proposal and from posts on the form by Jens and Russel.  
Are the libraries I've listed indeed the ones in need of the most 
attention. What about std.xml and std.json?

10) Rikki had mentioned a 'Web Development' project, but I don't 
have enough to post on the project ideas page.  Are you still 
interested in doing this.


Hope that everyone has a great 2015, and I look forward to your 
feedback.

Cheers,

Craig