On Monday, February 6, 2012 09:54 CET, Fred Kiefer<address@hidden> wrote:
Looks like GSoC 2012 was announced at FOSDEM (Did anybody notice?). Here
is the timeline for it
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2012
If GNUstep is interested we will have to come up with an application
until the 9th oh March. We could either do this as a stand alone project
(of course together with Etoile!) or under the GNU umbrella project as
we did the last two years.
I really would like to volunteer as a mentor again, I learned a lot from
Niels during his project. But we should only invest any effort here if
we see suitable students. Last year we were not able to attract such
students and so the whole application to GSoC was a waste of time.
Please ask around, if any students you know are interested.
I don't know anyone specifically, but I think we should give some ideas what
could be
done, and what would be good to have.
For example, a lot of applications in GAP should be checked if still work with
latest releases,
or could be enhanced with new features. Maybe a good job for a beginner with
basic
objective-c skills, and just want to learn, starting from reading others code,
and enhancing
existing applications, before sometime starting an own application.
Another thing I'd really like to have is some more cross desktop integration,
for example,
allowing .desktop files, used in KDE and others, to work. I'd really like to
define Firefox or
something similar as my default browser. (until Vespucci is production ready ;)
Otherwise, students still can come up with their ideas, what they want to work
on.
Maybe something like this should be sent to the discuss-gnustep@ list, to maybe
find interested people?
I'm by far no expert, also still learning, but could at least also try help out
where possible.