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General information
This wiki page will be the central point for information about the Google Summer of Code 2009 at Debian. Feel free to add missing sections to it.
You can find information about the previous years on SummerOfCode2006, SummerOfCode2007 and SummerOfCode2008.
Introduction
The Google Summer of Code is a program where Google pays students stipends to work over the summer on free software projects such as Debian. Each student works with one or more mentors from the community to complete a software project.
The Google Summer of Code has started again this year. If we're selected as a mentoring organisation, 2009 will be the fourth participation of Debian in the program and we want to again improve on our participation to make the experience even more exciting and fulfilling this year for the students, the mentors and the whole Debian community.
Timeline
Here are the next steps:
- February 8: Program announced. Life is good.
- March 9: ~12 noon PST / 19:00 UTC Mentoring organizations can begin submitting applications to Google.
- March 13: 12 noon PDT / 19:00 UTC Mentoring organization application deadline.
- March 18: ~12 noon PDT / 19:00 UTC List of accepted mentoring organizations published on the Google Summer of Code 2009 site.
- March 18-23: Would-be student participants discuss application ideas with mentoring organizations.
- March 23: ~12 noon PDT / 19:00 UTC Student application period opens.
- April 3: 12 noon PDT / 19:00 UTC Student application deadline.
The full timeline is available here.
I am a student
You can't apply yet (you will be able to at the end of March) but you can do a lot.
First familiarize yourself with the communication tools of Debian:
IRC on general or team development channels
the general and particular Mailing-lists of various teams
this wiki
Join the communication channels of the teams or persons involved with the subject you would like to work on and discuss it. Don't be afraid to suggest seemingly crazy or vague ideas, we'll help you and give you suggestions. If you're lost (or even not!), drop in the communication channels of the Summer of Code team mentioned below. Remember that early preparation is a guarantee that your proposal will be better!
There is some interesting introductory documentation on this wiki about what Debian is and what Debian is for a developer. A lot of information about being a Summer of Code student can be found on the Advice for students page.
We also have a template that we would recommend students to use for their application: ?application template
I am a Debian developer
Your help is much needed from general organization to individual mentoring. Come see us on IRC or on the mailing-list mentioned below.
If you have an idea proposal, come discuss it with us or put it directly on this wiki if you're sure of its viability.
This year, we want to improve the communication between Summer of Code projects and the whole Debian community during the whole Summer of Code program, from student/project selection to final code integration into production through testing and feedback.
A lot of information can be found on the Advice for mentors page.
Mailing-list, IRC, Twitter and identi.ca
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/soc-coordination
We're also on IRC: #debian-soc in the OFTC network (irc.debian.org). Just drop in and ask your questions. Of course you can also ask in other Debian IRC channels.
Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DebianGSoC or on identi.ca: http://identi.ca/debiangsoc
The Google's Summer of Code general IRC channel is #gsoc in Freenode.
Projects
Map of Debian
Here will be a map of areas in Debian where proposals are requested/accepted.
A good place to start looking for teams and areas is : http://www.debian.org/intro/organization
Project proposals
Here will be a list of proposals, sorted according to the map above.
Packaging
Large dataset manager: download and update local copies of public datasets, and integrate them in Debian with the tools we packaged.
Mergemaster: perform 3-way merge of config files on upgrades by keeping a copy of original config files.
Aptitude packages query UI and language: improve the GTK+ search UI and language for complex packages queries
Aptitude search ranking and presentation: improve the presentation of search results with substring highlighting, relevancy ranking...
Aptitude history tracking: extend and build on the packages actions history tracking features of Aptitude
Debian Installer
MTD support in d-i: add MTD installation support to the Debian Installer
Debian-Installer support for GNU/kFreeBSD: replace the currently used FreeBSD sysinstall with Debian-Installer running possibly under a FreeBSD kernel
Hardware support
Blends
blends webtools: enhancing DebianPureBlends webtools by using UltimateDebianDatabase
Bug tracking
Debbugs Read/Write Soap Interface: overhaul the existing read-only SOAP Debbugs interface with submission and manipulation capabilities
Debbugs Web UI: Modern web interface for submitting and manipulating bugs.debian.org's bugs ()
Mylyn plugin for debbugs: Plugin for Mylyn to support debbugs, allowing the management of Debian bug reports from the inside of Eclipse.
Building infrastructure
Building a new interface for Wanna-build using PostgreSQL: replace the existing setup of multiple MLDBM databases with an extensible and flexible relational database for use both by wanna-build and other tools such as web CGI scripts
* Your proposal here [?SummerOfCode2009/SampleProposal]: Use this proposal as a sample.
KDE
SummerOfCode2009/Debconf-qt4 Writing a debconf-qt4 frontend. This also requires to work on perl-qt4 bindings.
SummerOfCode2009/KDE-based-packagemanager Creating a qt4/kde4 based gui for package manager.
Crew
Please add yourself to the relevant tables, preserving alphabetical order of the last names. To get a 'linkid', register on the GSoC web application.
Administrators
Name |
linkid |
Comment |
primary admin for Google |
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backup admin for Google |
Mentors
Name |
linkid |
Comment |
Daniel Baumann |
Debian Live |
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Eclipse/Mylyn |
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?DanielBurrows |
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apt, dpkg and aptitude related projects |
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?TollefFogHeen |
Multiarch, Debian installer |
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co-mentor, security |
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Debian Blends |
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Debian Boot |
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Debian Med |
Meta
Promotion
Organize the promotion of the Google Summer of Code 2009 at Debian here.
A flyer has been made, feel free to make additional translations:
This flyer can be put on university bulletin boards, etc.