[Announce] GSoC 2011 Announced

Andrew Whitworth wknight8111 at gmail.com
Fri Mar 11 16:28:58 UTC 2011


I have started an overhaul of the Parrot project ideas page already.
I've converted project ideas listed there previously into proper
templates that show most of the information fields we will need to
have. I've removed a few inappropriate ideas and added a few new
ideas. I'm adding ideas that I am thinking of, and also ideas which
I've heard prospective students suggest. Students can add ideas to the
list as well!

http://trac.parrot.org/parrot/wiki/GSoc2011

Some points:

1) We need mentors. Look through the list of projects and add your
name next to all project ideas you would be willing to mentor. For
each project we would like to have both a primary and a backup mentor
available. Project ideas which don't have any mentors signed up will
probably end up being deleted.

2) GSoC project ideas need to be appropriate for the program. They
must be large enough to fill 2-3 months of full-time development by
the student. The student must be writing *code*, documentation-only
projects are explicitly disallowed by Google. Projects should involve
the student creating something new, not just
fixing/refactoring/cleaning/testing something which already exists.
Writing tests is an important part of most projects, but is probably
not a project in and of itself.

I'll go through this list several times today and this weekend to
comment on, improve upon, and cull the list of ideas. I suggest other
interested people go over the list several times as well.

3) Project ideas may involve Parrot core and Parrot ecosystem
projects, including HLL projects. If you can think of any suitable
projects which would benefit one of our existing HLL projects (Rakudo,
partcl, Lua, Cardinal, NQP-rx, Winxed, etc), create a new HLL compiler
project, benefit an existing extension/embedding project (search
Github, there are dozens). If there are glaring holes of missing
functionality in the Parrot ecosystem, creating new projects might be
a great idea too.

This is our first year applying as an individual organization, let's
not lose out on the GSoC experience because we can't come up with a
good enough list of ideas.

--Andrew Whitworth



On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Jonathan "Duke" Leto
<jonathan at leto.net> wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> Sorry for the confusion, I had some emergency travel recently and have
> not spread the word properly.
>
> rafl++ has stepped up to be the org admin for The Perl Foundation this
> year, I will help him with the transition.
>
> I will be the org admin for Parrot Foundation this year.
>
> I have already applied both TPF and PaFo to GSoC 2011.
>
> The most important thing now is to improve our ideas pages:
>
> https://www.socialtext.net/perl5/gsoc
>
> and
>
> http://trac.parrot.org/parrot/wiki/GSoc2011
>
> If TPF would like to use a different page, please let me know soon, since org
> apps cannot be modified after 11pm PST today.
>
> In my opinion, the ideas page is the most important part of an
> organization applying to GSoC.
>
> If both Parrot's and TPF's ideas pages stay the way they are right
> now, I am not sure we will be accepted this year.
> An idea page should have very specific ideas, with links for more
> information, lists of possible mentors, prior art,
> difficulty levels, etc.
>
> Here is an example of Etherboot's ideas page from last year:
> http://etherboot.org/wiki/soc/ideas
>
> When in doubt, emulate Etherboot. IMHO, they are the most organized
> community in GSoC and have been part of GSoC
> every single year it has existed.
>
> Google will be looking at the ideas pages this weekend, so this is
> time-sensitive. If you have ideas, please add them to the appropriate
> page. An "idea template" is probably a good idea as well, so people
> can copy and past something and fill in the details.
>
> Duke
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 5:16 AM, Will Coleda <will at coleda.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 4:46 AM, Reini Urban <rurban at x-ray.at> wrote:
>>> 2011/2/7 Jonathan Leto <jonathan at leto.net>:
>>>> Howdy,
>>>>
>>>> Who wants to help with GSoC 2011 ?
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>> Deadline is today. Is the TPF applying?
>>> I saw nothing on p5p and tpf-gsoc, only here,
>>> but I assume Duke is again applying for us.
>>> Right?
>>>
>>> If not we'd need an emergency plan.
>>
>> Looks like Duke has us covered:
>>
>> http://irclog.perlgeek.de/perl6/2011-03-07#i_3369240
>>
>> 20:09   dukeleto        i just submitted The Perl Foundation's app to
>> participate in Google Summer of Code 2011. Anybody have project ideas?
>> 20:10   moritz_ dukeleto: is it a joint application of TPF and PaFo?
>> 20:10   dukeleto        moritz_: nope, Parrot Foundation and TPF are seperate
>> orgs this year
>>
>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>> From: Carol Smith <carols at google.com>
>>>> Date: Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 9:54 AM
>>>> Subject: [Announce] GSoC 2011 Announced
>>>> To: Google Summer of Code Mentors List
>>>> <google-summer-of-code-mentors-list at googlegroups.com>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi GSoC mentors and org admins,
>>>> Right on the heels of the end of GCI we've announced that we're doing
>>>> GSoC 2011 [1]. Yay!
>>>> We have presentations [2], logos [3], and flyers [4] for you all to
>>>> use for promotion this year. Please host meetups, tell your friends
>>>> and colleagues about the program, go to conferences, talk to people
>>>> about the program, and just generally do all the awesome word-of-mouth
>>>> stuff you do every year to promote the program. We rely on you for
>>>> your help, so thank you in advance for all the work you do!
>>>> If you need goodies for a meetup you're holding in your area, please
>>>> contact me directly and let me know. I'd be happy to send along some
>>>> promotional items.
>>>> The Google Summer of Code calendar has been updated with this year's
>>>> dates, so please refer to that as well for important dates and
>>>> deadlines. Please also let me know when you decide on a date, time,
>>>> and location for a meetup so I can put it on the calendar.
>>>> [1] - http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2011/01/google-summer-of-code-announced-at-lca.html
>>>> [2] - http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/ProgramPresentations
>>>> [3] - http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/GsocLogos
>>>> [4] - http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/GsocFlyers
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Carol
>>>>
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>> Will "Coke" Coleda
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