Google Summer of Code - Again

[Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d]

On 6/02/2015 9:30 a.m., CraigDillabaugh wrote:
> On Friday, 30 January 2015 at 04:32:14 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote:
>> It seems like its been too long since I posted asking for GSOC help.
>>
>> The start of submissions for the 2015 Google Summer of Code is fast
>> approaching,
>> so once again I would like to approach the community for some
>> assistance. My immediate needs are:
>>
>> 1) I need a volunteer for 'backup' administrator.  This is a
>> requirement, so I really
>> need someone to volunteer for this position, which with a little luck
>> will require
>> exactly 0 work, and will bring you great honour and prestige.
>>
>>
>> 2) DigitalMars is listed as the mentoring orgnaization.  Should we
>> register rather
>> as dlang.org?
>>
>> 3) QML.  The QML project is very thin, and unless it can be improved
>> it will
>> need to be dropped.  Recently there was a QML project posted on the
>> Announce list:
>>
>> http://forum.dlang.org/thread/hapeegrotkazppwdnstk@forum.dlang.org
>>
>> This might be a good starting point for a student project, if the
>> developer of
>> this project is interested in mentoring, but I haven't been able to
>> get a hold of
>> him/her. Does anyone know how to get in touch with 'filcuc'.
>>
>> 4) Extra polishing is welcome on any of the ideas sections.  In
>> particular I
>> wanted to have a "It is Good To Know" section indicating what students
>> should
>> know (or be expected to learn).  Some of these are fairly well filled
>> out,
>> others are non-existant or sparse.  The ideas page is at:
>>
>> http://wiki.dlang.org/GSOC_2015_Ideas
>>
>>
>> 5) If you are a mentor, I've tried to make a bio's page for mentors.
>> It can
>> be seen here:
>>
>> http://wiki.dlang.org/GSOC_mentors
>>
>> If you are a mentor please consider filling your bio out.  I've dug up
>> stuff
>> off the web/old D Conf bio's, etc on a few of you, but it would be
>> nice if folks
>> could edit their own.
>>
>> 6) We could still use maybe one (or two) more solid ideas.  If you are
>> working
>> on some cool project related to the D ecosystem, and think a student
>> could help you (and you could help
>> them) we could maybe add your idea to the list.  Especially if we end up
>> dropping QML.
>>
>> 7) If we are approved we will need to form a committee to evaluate the
>> student
>> proposals that will undoubtedly flood in ...  any volunteers for that
>> duty!  It should likely include the mentors, but they might be biased,
>> so some folks outside the mentors group would be nice.
>
> Just bumping my own thread here.  GSOC program proposals can be
> submitted in less than a week (Feb 9th), and I would like to submit our
> proposal near the beginning of the time period. Thanks to everyone thus
> far who has volunteered to help.  We could still use an extra topic or
> two, and pointers
>
> Bio's for some mentors are still incomplete. Jacob Ovrum and Russel
> Winder have no bio, and for others I have scrapped together some stuff
> from off the internet that may be way out of date!  I would encourage
> anyone who volunteered to mentor to at least read over what I wrote for
> accuracy - and ask Jacob and Russel to fill something in - or I can
> always make something up for you :o)
>
>
> Finally, I wanted to ask what the Phobos mentors think of adding std.xml
> to the list of Phobos libraries that could use an update?

I've taken a look at our review queue. We have an (old) attempt at 
replacing it[0]. It is abandoned. But it looks like a fairly good 
starting point if somebody wanted to use it as a base.

[0] 
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~michael-rynn-500/d2-xml/d2-xml-dev/files/head:/std/xmlp/