Packaging Open Event Solution and Dependencies for Debian
Description of the project: Open Event is a FOSS event management solution with a Python backend and an EmberJS frontend. In the project participants will package the various components of the project (server, Python interface library, client, etc) for Debian and integrate it into the system. Resolve issues in the project to make it fully functional and collaborate with the team during the summer to enhance features.
Confirmed Mentor: Norbert Preining
How to contact the mentor: email (during GSoC: daily scrum emails, weekly meetings, monthly blog posts)
Confirmed co-mentors: Areeb Jama
Deliverables of the project: Debian Packages of Open Event components, improved event solutions with major bugs solved during summer.
Desirable skills: Debian, Debian packaging, make (debian/rules is a Makefile), shell, automation, CI, Python, EmberJS
What the intern will learn: Packaging is a quite complex and yet many people depend on those packages, you will learn how to package a complex programming language with vast ecosystem of extensions and libraries
Application tasks:
Related projects: Open Event
Mentors affiliation with Debian: DD