On Thursday, 14 January 2016 at 18:56:21 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote:
> Deadline is getting closer, any new project ideas are welcome. Starting to get some contact from students now.


FlatBuffers for DLang - http://google.github.io/flatbuffers/

On Friday, 15 January 2016 at 15:11:39 UTC, Tavi wrote:
> On Thursday, 14 January 2016 at 18:56:21 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote:
>> Deadline is getting closer, any new project ideas are welcome. Starting to get some contact from students now.
>
>
> FlatBuffers for DLang - http://google.github.io/flatbuffers/

Are you volunteering as a potential mentor :o)

On 2016-01-15 14:56, Craig Dillabaugh wrote:

> Agreed ... Jacob?

I could help, but I have no interest in being an official mentor.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

On 2016-01-15 13:36, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

> I recall there has been one (or two?) unsuccessful attempts. -- Andrei

Yes, twice. It mainly needs to be rangified.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

On Friday, 15 January 2016 at 16:06:00 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote:
> On Friday, 15 January 2016 at 15:11:39 UTC, Tavi wrote:
>> On Thursday, 14 January 2016 at 18:56:21 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote:
>>> Deadline is getting closer, any new project ideas are welcome. Starting to get some contact from students now.
>>
>>
>> FlatBuffers for DLang - http://google.github.io/flatbuffers/
>
> Are you volunteering as a potential mentor :o)

I haven't started anything seriously in D yet, so I would not be qualified for such mentoring.
Being an efficient cross platform serialization library started at Google (already supporting C++, Java, C#, Go, Python and JavaScript), may be a good candidate for GSOC.

On Friday, 15 January 2016 at 20:20:29 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2016-01-15 13:36, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>
>> I recall there has been one (or two?) unsuccessful attempts. -- Andrei
>
> Yes, twice. It mainly needs to be rangified.

How much work do you think that would involve? Would it be enough to qualify as a project (I am guessing something in the range of 150-300 hours of total work, including getting up to speed, design, implementation, testing, would be suitable).

On Friday, 15 January 2016 at 20:46:59 UTC, Tavi wrote:
> On Friday, 15 January 2016 at 16:06:00 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote:
>> On Friday, 15 January 2016 at 15:11:39 UTC, Tavi wrote:
>>> On Thursday, 14 January 2016 at 18:56:21 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote:
>>>> Deadline is getting closer, any new project ideas are welcome. Starting to get some contact from students now.
>>>
>>>
>>> FlatBuffers for DLang - http://google.github.io/flatbuffers/
>>
>> Are you volunteering as a potential mentor :o)
>
> I haven't started anything seriously in D yet, so I would not be qualified for such mentoring.
> Being an efficient cross platform serialization library started at Google (already supporting C++, Java, C#, Go, Python and JavaScript), may be a good candidate for GSOC.

Thanks then for the suggestion.  It is my policy to always ask if someone wants to mentor!

On 2016-01-15 23:25, Craig Dillabaugh wrote:

> How much work do you think that would involve? Would it be enough to
> qualify as a project (I am guessing something in the range of 150-300
> hours of total work, including getting up to speed, design,
> implementation, testing, would be suitable).

It's hard to say. It depends on how much time it takes to get up to speed. If the student already knows D it will be a lot quicker. But for me that's already working on this, I really hope it wouldn't take that long time.

I think it's a bigger chance that it's too small than too large. But if it's possible to be flexible we could add more archive types if the project turns out to be too small.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

On Thursday, 31 December 2015 at 23:58:32 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote:
> The deadline for the Google Summer of Code, 2016 is February 19th. Which means we have about a month and a half to put something together.  For the time being I've recycled last years projects (with one dropped so far):
>
> http://wiki.dlang.org/GSOC_2016_Ideas#Ideas

> Craig

Just trying to keep GSOC on the front page ...

If you have your name attached to a project currently on our list please let me know if you can't mentor this year.  I am starting to get some inquires for students about projects (just had one about DDT), and it would be bad is some project that is currently on the list disappeared between now and mid-February.  So I would rather clean up any projects that we can't go ahead with now.

On Monday, 18 January 2016 at 16:16:01 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote:
> On Thursday, 31 December 2015 at 23:58:32 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote:
>> The deadline for the Google Summer of Code, 2016 is February 19th. Which means we have about a month and a half to put something together.  For the time being I've recycled last years projects (with one dropped so far):
>>
>> http://wiki.dlang.org/GSOC_2016_Ideas#Ideas
>
>> Craig
>
> Just trying to keep GSOC on the front page ...
>
> If you have your name attached to a project currently on our list please let me know if you can't mentor this year.  I am starting to get some inquires for students about projects (just had one about DDT), and it would be bad is some project that is currently on the list disappeared between now and mid-February.
>  So I would rather clean up any projects that we can't go ahead with now.

I can't believe I let this slip all the way to page 4 :o)

GSOC organization deadline is 3.5 weeks away, and while there have been a few ideas proposed here, we don't have too much that is concrete.

I will try and get to work on filling in the idea's page with what we have so far, but still need more ideas from the community.  Note, if you have an idea you also need to either be able to mentor, or even better, volunteer someone else.

For the time being the following people are listed as potential mentors for projects already on the idea's page (from last year):

Andrei Alexandrescu
Iain Buclaw
Bruno Medeiros
Jens Mueller
Martin Nowak
Jacob Ovrum
Amaury Sechet
Russel Winder

I would like to get confirmation from each of you if you can mentor this year (and if your name is attached to a project, can that still be a go).  If I don't have confirmation I will have to drop the mentor/project, as it would look really bad if students submit proposals and we end up saying "Oh, sorry that individual can't really mentor you ... maybe you should try something Rust related."

Cheers

Craig