[maemo-developers] Final (?) list of SoC projects

[From: Michael Dominic Kostrzewa]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 10:55:35AM +0300, ext maemo-developers-bounces at maemo.org wrote:
> SoC mentor? Read this through!
> 
> http://maemo.org/maemowiki/GoogleSoC2007 updated with the latest
> information. 
> 
> We have received some projects after the deadline, I believe that
> redirected from other projects or Google's pool. I have marked two as
> uneligible since they contained no project proposals, only introduction
> of students willing to help (they have been pointed to maemo.org mailing
> lists and garage projects, where a lot of help is needed). We have some
> proposals that seem to overlap or be very similar, around location and
> PC-device transfers. I'd say the average quality of the proposals are
> good, some students have put a lot of effort in them already.
> 
> The list of projects and some comments, in no special order.
> 
> - Dasher via Maemo Device as Keyboard for PC 
> This one might drop if it's confirmed that a Dasher port already exists.
> Any links?
> 
> - IMAP-related enhancements to osso-email 
> We have told this student that in fact most of the development hotness
> is currently happening around http://modest.garage.maemo.org/ , inviting
> him to refactor his proposal accordingly.
> 
> - Japanese/Chinese handwriting recognition on Maemo 
> This student requested mentorship to Makoto Sugano, who is Nokia
> employee but also maintainer in his free time of
> https://garage.maemo.org/projects/maemocjk/. The project looks good and
> it's well formulated. AFAIK there are no other mentors able to even read
> basic Chinese/Japanese. Makoto would be happy mentoring this project.
> Any objections? Note that Makoto's job in Nokia has nothing to do with
> Chinese/Japanese implementation or any kind of L10n/i18n.
> 
> - Last.fm radio player 
> Xan (Nokia employee and Last.fm fan) has requested mentorship of this
> project and I have reminded him the backup policy. If a community mentor
> wants to pick this one s/he will have preference. Otherwise we can keep
> Xan and then the rest of mentors value the appropiateness of the combo
> when ranking the project. The proposal itself is well formulated.
> 
> - Improve the phoneME JVM, to integrate well with Maemo and GPE
> enviroments 
> - Geolocation-based Transit Maps 
> - 'Duality': Internet-based, PC-to-device-to-PC file transfer 
> - Ocaml Maemo 
> - WiFi </maemowiki/WiFi> -based Localization 
> - Application in Mono to synchronize gpe-calendar with google calendar 
> - Easy wireless interaction of Maemo-devices and pc's 
> - Smoove - Instant Desktop Migration Suite 

> - Ruby Maemo Bindings 

Personally I'd be also VERY interested in this one. I don't think
however, I have enough experience with Ruby internals to responsibly
mentor it. 

But it would be very nice to have ruby bindings for our components. For
Gtk and friends that shouldn't be too difficult since the bindings
already exists. Binding hildon might require some work. 

> - Placemarking program for Nokia 770 and N800 
> - DBAssistant - SQL Database builder and data entry 
> 
> *** SoC MENTORS ***
> NOW it's time to review the applications, rank them, and offer yourself
> to mentor your preferred. Deadline: this week (it can be done in 1-2
> hours). 
> Please post your comments in all the projects (public/private) unless
> you have really nothing to say. You should be active specially if you
> are applying as mentor of a project. As said in a previous email, we
> have approved all mentors without making any reliability check. But if
> you are not reliable to post some SoC comments it is reasonable to think
> that you might be not the perfect candidate for bigger SoC challenges.
> ;)
> We haven't discussed much the participation of the backup mentors in the
> comments and ranks. Is it worth to discuss now? 
> I would say that it is good that you take part as well since you are
> experienced maemo developers. A way in between could be to let community
> mentors to push the preferred projects while concentrating the attention
> stopping the weakest options (duplicate work with existing projects,
> potential difficulties in the execution and so on). In practice this
> would mean that backup mentors wouldn't vote +4 and +2 as much as the
> rest of values (+1, -1, -2 and N/A). This is no strong policy and not
> even a strong recommendation, just a thought. Act according to your own
> beliefs.  :) 
> Quim
> 

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