Google Summer of Code

[Bruno Medeiros]

On 03/03/2011 16:17, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 3/3/11 3:48 AM, Jens Mueller wrote:
>> Dear list,
>>
>> Trass3r brought it up and I think it's a very good idea. D is lacking
>> some man power. The mentoring deadline is 11th of March. There are
>> important and interesting projects students may work on.
>>
>> I'm writing this post seeking answers to
>> 1. What's the "official" D stand on this matter?
>> 2. Are there already students who have time and would like to join? What
>> are you interested in?
>>
>> The first question is currently the more important one. The organization
>> administrator has to submit an application until the above deadline.
>> The purpose of the second question is to get some feedback whether it
>> would be worthwhile to submit an application. Because later on students
>> need to propose/join a project.
>>
>> Jens
>>
>> PS
>> The FAQs on http://code.google.com/soc/ is very helpful.
>
> Thanks for this idea. I plan to submit an organization application. As
> of now I'm unclear whether Digital Mars would be the best organization
> to apply, as opposed to an unincorporated "d-programming-language.org"
> entity. I'll discuss this with Walter. All, please chime in if you have
> related experience.
>
> We have a number of good projects to work on:
>
> * XML library
>
> * Networking library
>
> * IDE
>
> * Lexer/parser generator
>
> * Containers
>
> * Encryption/hashing
>
> * Thrift bindings
>
> * ...
>
>
> Andrei


This would be great indeed, to have some help from Google Summer of 
Code, but I fear it might be difficult to get ourselves accepted as a 
mentoring organization.

I did apply to GSoC once, as a student, in 2006, but this was a year 
where they allowed applications without a mentoring organization 
(although you would still need a mentoring individual). It was the last 
year they allowed that though (as well as the students themselves 
defining the proposal).

We might try something like this: "Tcl/Tk Community" - 
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/show/google/gsoc2010/tcltk as it 
would be an accurate representation of what a D mentoring organization 
could be... we are "only" a community right now, there is no formal 
organization, nor do we represent a single project like some other 
organizations do. But the Google guys are smart, and if we can 
demonstrate wide enough interest in our open-source projects, that 
should be enough. Not an easy thing given D's current popularity, but 
still, definitely worth a try.

-- 
Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer