[haiku-development] GSoC 2015 ideas list
- From: Adrien Destugues <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 09:27:54 +0100
Hello list,
This year the Google Summer of Code application period for orgs is in
february. It is now time to prepare a great idea list for GSoC.
I have created the website page at
https://www.haiku-os.org/community/gsoc/2015/ideas. I started from a
copy of the 2014 ideas, removing the completed ones. I also added a few
new ones:
- HW Accelerated 3d rendering
- Device Tree support for the ARM port
- Multi monitor support in app_server
- RTL languages support in interface kit
- WebKit2 port
In its current state the page has rather short description of the ideas.
This means the students have to do a lot of research on the ideas before
they can write an application. I think it would be better to expand on
the ideas a bit (with pointers to the relevant code, better description
of the involved components, possibly link to mailing list threads), so
the students can read the ideas and understand what they are about, and
estimate if they are withing their skill set. Otherwise the effort to
provide is too high. In principle this could be a way to keep only the
most motivated students, but we are also competing with other orgs, and
if they do a better job of explaining their ideas, even the good
studetns will go there, rather than here.
Please review the list, add ideas if you have more, improve the
description of existing ideas. I will continue to work on this as well.
Finally, are there ideas we should remove from the list? I don't know if
they all are still relevant.
--
Adrien.
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