On Saturday, 31 January 2015 at 08:57:15 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> On Friday, 30 January 2015 at 14:11:27 UTC, CraigDillabaugh wrote:
>> http://en.flossmanuals.net/GSoCMentoring/managing-the-mentors/
>
> Sounds good, count me in.

Thank you very much.

On Friday, 30 January 2015 at 22:30:18 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
> On 31/01/2015 3:24 a.m., CraigDillabaugh wrote:

>
> Window creation isn't conception. Its a very nice reality :)
> I was just throwing it out there however about an image library. In case somebody wanted to mentor for it.

I guess I based my comments on a quick viewing of the
Window creation thread.  It seems that what such a library
would provide, where it should go, and should we even
have one, has elicited many different views ... hard to believe
that such a thing could happen on the D forums :o)

Anyway, my concern is, is there broad support for such
an effort (obviously a few or sold on it) and if a student
worked on this, would it be accepted by the community?

Craig

On 1/02/2015 5:59 p.m., Craig Dillabaugh wrote:
> On Friday, 30 January 2015 at 22:30:18 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
>> On 31/01/2015 3:24 a.m., CraigDillabaugh wrote:
>
>>
>> Window creation isn't conception. Its a very nice reality :)
>> I was just throwing it out there however about an image library. In
>> case somebody wanted to mentor for it.
>
> I guess I based my comments on a quick viewing of the
> Window creation thread.  It seems that what such a library
> would provide, where it should go, and should we even
> have one, has elicited many different views ... hard to believe
> that such a thing could happen on the D forums :o)

Even more amazing is the scope of such a library being so slim its hard to get the abstraction wrong!

> Anyway, my concern is, is there broad support for such
> an effort (obviously a few or sold on it) and if a student
> worked on this, would it be accepted by the community?

Maybe, but without a mentor there is no chance of it.

On Friday, 30 January 2015 at 04:32:14 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote:
> It seems like its been too long since I posted asking for GSOC help.
>
> The start of submissions for the 2015 Google Summer of Code is fast approaching,
> so once again I would like to approach the community for some assistance. My immediate needs are:
>
> 1) I need a volunteer for 'backup' administrator.  This is a requirement, so I really
> need someone to volunteer for this position, which with a little luck will require
> exactly 0 work, and will bring you great honour and prestige.
>
>
> 2) DigitalMars is listed as the mentoring orgnaization.  Should we register rather
> as dlang.org?
>
> 3) QML.  The QML project is very thin, and unless it can be improved it will
> need to be dropped.  Recently there was a QML project posted on the Announce list:
>
> http://forum.dlang.org/thread/hapeegrotkazppwdnstk@forum.dlang.org
>
> This might be a good starting point for a student project, if the developer of
> this project is interested in mentoring, but I haven't been able to get a hold of
> him/her. Does anyone know how to get in touch with 'filcuc'.
>
> 4) Extra polishing is welcome on any of the ideas sections.  In particular I
> wanted to have a "It is Good To Know" section indicating what students should
> know (or be expected to learn).  Some of these are fairly well filled out,
> others are non-existant or sparse.  The ideas page is at:
>
> http://wiki.dlang.org/GSOC_2015_Ideas
>
>
> 5) If you are a mentor, I've tried to make a bio's page for mentors. It can
> be seen here:
>
> http://wiki.dlang.org/GSOC_mentors
>
> If you are a mentor please consider filling your bio out.  I've dug up stuff
> off the web/old D Conf bio's, etc on a few of you, but it would be nice if folks
> could edit their own.
>
> 6) We could still use maybe one (or two) more solid ideas.  If you are working
> on some cool project related to the D ecosystem, and think a student could help you (and you could help
> them) we could maybe add your idea to the list.  Especially if we end up
> dropping QML.
>
> 7) If we are approved we will need to form a committee to evaluate the student
> proposals that will undoubtedly flood in ...  any volunteers for that duty!  It should likely include the mentors, but they might be biased, so some folks outside the mentors group would be nice.

Just bumping my own thread here.  GSOC program proposals can be submitted in less than a week (Feb 9th), and I would like to submit our proposal near the beginning of the time period. Thanks to everyone thus far who has volunteered to help.  We could still use an extra topic or two, and pointers

Bio's for some mentors are still incomplete. Jacob Ovrum and Russel Winder have no bio, and for others I have scrapped together some stuff from off the internet that may be way out of date!  I would encourage anyone who volunteered to mentor to at least read over what I wrote for accuracy - and ask Jacob and Russel to fill something in - or I can always make something up for you :o)


Finally, I wanted to ask what the Phobos mentors think of adding std.xml to the list of Phobos libraries that could use an update?

On 6/02/2015 9:30 a.m., CraigDillabaugh wrote:
> On Friday, 30 January 2015 at 04:32:14 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote:
>> It seems like its been too long since I posted asking for GSOC help.
>>
>> The start of submissions for the 2015 Google Summer of Code is fast
>> approaching,
>> so once again I would like to approach the community for some
>> assistance. My immediate needs are:
>>
>> 1) I need a volunteer for 'backup' administrator.  This is a
>> requirement, so I really
>> need someone to volunteer for this position, which with a little luck
>> will require
>> exactly 0 work, and will bring you great honour and prestige.
>>
>>
>> 2) DigitalMars is listed as the mentoring orgnaization.  Should we
>> register rather
>> as dlang.org?
>>
>> 3) QML.  The QML project is very thin, and unless it can be improved
>> it will
>> need to be dropped.  Recently there was a QML project posted on the
>> Announce list:
>>
>> http://forum.dlang.org/thread/hapeegrotkazppwdnstk@forum.dlang.org
>>
>> This might be a good starting point for a student project, if the
>> developer of
>> this project is interested in mentoring, but I haven't been able to
>> get a hold of
>> him/her. Does anyone know how to get in touch with 'filcuc'.
>>
>> 4) Extra polishing is welcome on any of the ideas sections.  In
>> particular I
>> wanted to have a "It is Good To Know" section indicating what students
>> should
>> know (or be expected to learn).  Some of these are fairly well filled
>> out,
>> others are non-existant or sparse.  The ideas page is at:
>>
>> http://wiki.dlang.org/GSOC_2015_Ideas
>>
>>
>> 5) If you are a mentor, I've tried to make a bio's page for mentors.
>> It can
>> be seen here:
>>
>> http://wiki.dlang.org/GSOC_mentors
>>
>> If you are a mentor please consider filling your bio out.  I've dug up
>> stuff
>> off the web/old D Conf bio's, etc on a few of you, but it would be
>> nice if folks
>> could edit their own.
>>
>> 6) We could still use maybe one (or two) more solid ideas.  If you are
>> working
>> on some cool project related to the D ecosystem, and think a student
>> could help you (and you could help
>> them) we could maybe add your idea to the list.  Especially if we end up
>> dropping QML.
>>
>> 7) If we are approved we will need to form a committee to evaluate the
>> student
>> proposals that will undoubtedly flood in ...  any volunteers for that
>> duty!  It should likely include the mentors, but they might be biased,
>> so some folks outside the mentors group would be nice.
>
> Just bumping my own thread here.  GSOC program proposals can be
> submitted in less than a week (Feb 9th), and I would like to submit our
> proposal near the beginning of the time period. Thanks to everyone thus
> far who has volunteered to help.  We could still use an extra topic or
> two, and pointers
>
> Bio's for some mentors are still incomplete. Jacob Ovrum and Russel
> Winder have no bio, and for others I have scrapped together some stuff
> from off the internet that may be way out of date!  I would encourage
> anyone who volunteered to mentor to at least read over what I wrote for
> accuracy - and ask Jacob and Russel to fill something in - or I can
> always make something up for you :o)
>
>
> Finally, I wanted to ask what the Phobos mentors think of adding std.xml
> to the list of Phobos libraries that could use an update?

I've taken a look at our review queue. We have an (old) attempt at replacing it[0]. It is abandoned. But it looks like a fairly good starting point if somebody wanted to use it as a base.

[0] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~michael-rynn-500/d2-xml/d2-xml-dev/files/head:/std/xmlp/

On Friday, 6 February 2015 at 00:23:59 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
> On 6/02/2015 9:30 a.m., CraigDillabaugh wrote:
>> On Friday, 30 January 2015 at 04:32:14 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote:
>>> It seems like its been too long since I posted asking for GSOC help.
>>>
>>> The start of submissions for the 2015 Google Summer of Code is fast
>>> approaching,
>>> so once again I would like to approach the community for some
>>> assistance. My immediate needs are:
>>>
>>> 1) I need a volunteer for 'backup' administrator.  This is a
>>> requirement, so I really
>>> need someone to volunteer for this position, which with a little luck
>>> will require
>>> exactly 0 work, and will bring you great honour and prestige.
>>>
>>>
>>> 2) DigitalMars is listed as the mentoring orgnaization.  Should we
>>> register rather
>>> as dlang.org?
>>>
>>> 3) QML.  The QML project is very thin, and unless it can be improved
>>> it will
>>> need to be dropped.  Recently there was a QML project posted on the
>>> Announce list:
>>>
>>> http://forum.dlang.org/thread/hapeegrotkazppwdnstk@forum.dlang.org
>>>
>>> This might be a good starting point for a student project, if the
>>> developer of
>>> this project is interested in mentoring, but I haven't been able to
>>> get a hold of
>>> him/her. Does anyone know how to get in touch with 'filcuc'.
>>>
>>> 4) Extra polishing is welcome on any of the ideas sections.  In
>>> particular I
>>> wanted to have a "It is Good To Know" section indicating what students
>>> should
>>> know (or be expected to learn).  Some of these are fairly well filled
>>> out,
>>> others are non-existant or sparse.  The ideas page is at:
>>>
>>> http://wiki.dlang.org/GSOC_2015_Ideas
>>>
>>>
>>> 5) If you are a mentor, I've tried to make a bio's page for mentors.
>>> It can
>>> be seen here:
>>>
>>> http://wiki.dlang.org/GSOC_mentors
>>>
>>> If you are a mentor please consider filling your bio out.  I've dug up
>>> stuff
>>> off the web/old D Conf bio's, etc on a few of you, but it would be
>>> nice if folks
>>> could edit their own.
>>>
>>> 6) We could still use maybe one (or two) more solid ideas.  If you are
>>> working
>>> on some cool project related to the D ecosystem, and think a student
>>> could help you (and you could help
>>> them) we could maybe add your idea to the list.  Especially if we end up
>>> dropping QML.
>>>
>>> 7) If we are approved we will need to form a committee to evaluate the
>>> student
>>> proposals that will undoubtedly flood in ...  any volunteers for that
>>> duty!  It should likely include the mentors, but they might be biased,
>>> so some folks outside the mentors group would be nice.
>>
>> Just bumping my own thread here.  GSOC program proposals can be
>> submitted in less than a week (Feb 9th), and I would like to submit our
>> proposal near the beginning of the time period. Thanks to everyone thus
>> far who has volunteered to help.  We could still use an extra topic or
>> two, and pointers
>>
>> Bio's for some mentors are still incomplete. Jacob Ovrum and Russel
>> Winder have no bio, and for others I have scrapped together some stuff
>> from off the internet that may be way out of date!  I would encourage
>> anyone who volunteered to mentor to at least read over what I wrote for
>> accuracy - and ask Jacob and Russel to fill something in - or I can
>> always make something up for you :o)
>>
>>
>> Finally, I wanted to ask what the Phobos mentors think of adding std.xml
>> to the list of Phobos libraries that could use an update?
>
> I've taken a look at our review queue. We have an (old) attempt at replacing it[0]. It is abandoned. But it looks like a fairly good starting point if somebody wanted to use it as a base.
>
> [0] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~michael-rynn-500/d2-xml/d2-xml-dev/files/head:/std/xmlp/

I went and added std.xml  ... executive decision.  Hopefully if that gets a student proposal some mentor will step in.

If anyone feels like reveiwing the proposal, it is located at:

https://github.com/craig-dillabaugh/dlang-gsoc2015

You can see what they are looking for here:

http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2015/help_page#2._What_should_a_mentoring_organization

A note on QML bindings.  Filippo, the creator of DOtherSide, the QML bindings, expressed some interest in participating the 2015 GSOC. However time may be an issue for him.

Russel Winder, if you are reading, would you be willing to co-mentor with Filippo if he feels he needs (and would like) the help?

Craig

On Fri, 2015-02-06 at 14:15 +0000, CraigDillabaugh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> A note on QML bindings.  Filippo, the creator of DOtherSide, the QML bindings, expressed some interest in participating the 2015 GSOC. However time may be an issue for him.
> 
> Russel Winder, if you are reading, would you be willing to co-mentor with Filippo if he feels he needs (and would like) the help?

I'm entirely happy to be backup mentor for this.

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On Friday, 6 February 2015 at 19:34:53 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-02-06 at 14:15 +0000, CraigDillabaugh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> A note on QML bindings.  Filippo, the creator of DOtherSide, the QML bindings, expressed some interest in participating the 2015 GSOC. However time may be an issue for him.
>> 
>> Russel Winder, if you are reading, would you be willing to
>> co-mentor with Filippo if he feels he needs (and would like) the help?
>
> I'm entirely happy to be backup mentor for this.

Thanks.

Google Summer of Code organizational proposals start today.  I will submit our proposal in the next day or two.  The evaluation process starts on Feb 23rd, so I imagine we should still be able to make updates to the Ideas/Mentors pages until that time without trouble. But anyone who wants to comment on the proposal should do so soon:

https://github.com/craig-dillabaugh/dlang-gsoc2015