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Re: Google Summer of Code [message #25852 is a reply to message #25695] |
Mon, 15 March 2010 21:49 |
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koldo
Messages: 3394 Registered: August 2008
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Hello all
Ultimate++ project application to Google Summer of Code has been submitted.
During this week Google will decide which projects will participate in this program.
The competence is awesome: all main Open Source projects apply to GSoC. And the number of available slots is limited.
Outside U++ I have heard an opinion saying (in simplified version) that GSoC is not interesting because long term supporters are convinced with the project. And convinced people works for free (like you, and you, and you, ... ).
Well, I think this opinion is oversimplified because (in simplified version ):
- GSoC is a world wide program. If anybody is concerned about PR (public relations) well, many of the BIG projects are in.
- Students apply for it because:
-- It is excellent for their curriculum
-- They get about 5k$
- We want this great students working full time for our project. And we have to convince them because we want them inside, also after GSoC.
- This is not granted for free: We have to work a lot in, at least:
-- Students selection
-- Project management
-- Mentorship (a lot of work)
However, the good thing of this is that we have to develop a system that:
- coming from the very first day of a person in U++ to be the new Mirek
- will let this skilled, polite, organized, easy going and handsome person to get it in a finite deadline
- arranging the project and the community as the same thing.
Because GSoC lasts few months.
But U++ is opened 365/24:
- to give all programmers the best tools
- and to receive
--- more or less skilled people
--- with more or less time
--- but feeling that here there is something worth spending their valuable time.
Well, and that is great.
Best regards
Iñaki
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Re: Google Summer of Code [message #25865 is a reply to message #25852] |
Tue, 16 March 2010 20:40 |
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Very excited News!
Sorry for my delay, I was busy with OCP(Oracle Certified Professional) exams.
And now go back to u++!
My new intentions is:
1. To integrate open ocilib(http://orclib.sourceforge.net/) in u++
2. Finish to test and integrate google v8 for runtime developing
3. Finish to integrate xlslib to u++
4. Finish to make a variant of Plugin framework
If is other more important task lets put by importance and complete it!
Best regards, Ion Lupascu (tojocky)
[Updated on: Tue, 16 March 2010 21:36] Report message to a moderator
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Re: Google Summer of Code [message #25878 is a reply to message #25867] |
Wed, 17 March 2010 10:21 |
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Hello Koldo,
yes, I have passed the exams.
Thanks for hint Koldo, I will try to include additional info!
koldo wrote on Tue, 16 March 2010 22:42 |
Hello tojocky, welcome back
Have you passed the exams ?
Thank you for your offer. Please try to include additional info, trying to follow the "ideas" page format here http://www.ultimatepp.org/www$uppweb$gsoc$en-us.html.
They could be or not in GSoC. However it is a good basic form to get an idea about them.
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Re: Google Summer of Code [message #25905 is a reply to message #25903] |
Thu, 18 March 2010 22:37 |
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koldo
Messages: 3394 Registered: August 2008
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Yes it is
We have received this afternoon a very kind answer from Google informing us that this year it has not been possible to accept us and encouraging us to reapply net year.
The good thing is that this releases us from the pressure of this program now.
From today we have one full year to prepare us for next application.
In addition all the organization we are going to setup will be useful from the beginning. To be in GSoC will be a sweet cake but we will begin to eat cookies shortly
Now more than ever we all are U++.
Best regards
Iñaki
[Updated on: Thu, 18 March 2010 22:44] Report message to a moderator
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Re: Google Summer of Code [message #31137 is a reply to message #26017] |
Wed, 09 February 2011 09:35 |
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Hello,
Google announced GSoC 2011 program so i think we need to start thinking at it. I would like to apply for same application from last year - KDE port of U++.
IMO would be good if we would have (*as a choice*, because i know U++ is mainly statically linked):
- U++ as a library - lib files for simple linkage from other IDE's and dll/so to make it easier to write plugins which use U++.
- Selecting theme engine at runtime - a .so file which provide theming for KDE and another for Gnome - part of that will be solved by my GSoC application - if user doesn't have any DM based on gtk/qt then U++ style will be used.
Andrei
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Re: Google Summer of Code [message #31139 is a reply to message #31137] |
Wed, 09 February 2011 11:29 |
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Yeah, we should really start working on the application...
Another thing still missing from U++ (aside from above mentioned theming) is BrowserCtrl. Any student who happens to know a bit about webkit internals (or any other engine) could do a great job at making the U++ bindings
Honza
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Re: Google Summer of Code [message #31174 is a reply to message #31163] |
Fri, 11 February 2011 15:29 |
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Hello Koldo,
Thanks for setting up the pages for GSoC 2011.
In my previous post regarding U++ as a library i've only said what I think would be fine to have I'm not the original author of the idea for GSoC, it was proposed last year too and it was also discussed some years ago in forum. I think it would solve some problems we have now about creating plugins which use U++. If we don't have a dll/so then U++ code should be linked statically with every plugin and i think nobody wants to have a plugin which is 2MB+ and there are also other problems regarding that.
Regarding my second wish - "Selecting theme engine at runtime" i've said that it will be solved as part of my proposal for GSoC 2011 and it is the same as it was in 2010 - U++ port to KDE, so if you're kind you may copy the details from U++ GSoC 2010 page. If "U++ port to KDE" will be accepted in GSoC 2011 then - "Selecting theme engine at runtime" will be part of it, because currently is impossible to have gtk and qt theming in same application in U++, and because of that, when creating KDE theming for U++ one will have to make it loadable at runtime make U++ select at runtime to use gtk or qt. I don't see other way to have KDE look and feel for a U++ application.
It is possible to have also "Selecting theme engine at runtime" and part of that would be:
- port current U++ gtk+ theming part to a dynamic library
- add U++ support to load it (and qt theming part if ever provided) at runtime
- make possible for developers who want to have only gtk/qt theming available at compile time (statically linked), so there should be no dynamic library provided if developer choose to use qt or gtk theming
To explain why it is important:
1. having U++ as dll/so and lib is important for plugins, using U++ in other IDE's
2. having U++ qt theming is important to have same look and feel in KDE as KDE applications
3. having theming "engines" as .so files make our applications only depend on X11 if we choose so and if any qt/gtk is present use that for theming else use U++ default theme.
I don't have now time to explain more detailed but I think maybe it's enough to figure out what i wanted to say.
Andrei
P.S.: I'm still a student (master degree), that's why i wanted to apply to GSoC (with U++ port to KDE). I don't want to be mentor at last not yet, but if that's necessary i may think at that.
P.P.S.: Why U++ port to KDE? Because when using KDE i dislike having to install tone of gtk+/gnome libs only to use one application and when using Gnome i dislike installing tone of libs from qt/kde. So i thinkg U++ with X11 dependencies and qt/gtk at runtime will be a best solution (despite Mirek's beliefs about dll hell )
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Re: Google Summer of Code [message #31181 is a reply to message #31178] |
Fri, 11 February 2011 18:05 |
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raxvan wrote on Fri, 11 February 2011 17:05 | I propose to make from TheIde infrastructure a distributed build system with a server/client structure running TCP/IP.
I think this can be pulled of with a medium amount of effort because TheIde already has a build system.
| And it already has the ability to build on remote machines That would be very little work
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Re: Google Summer of Code [message #31188 is a reply to message #31185] |
Fri, 11 February 2011 22:59 |
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koldo
Messages: 3394 Registered: August 2008
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Hey all
It is great to have you here.
Please do not post ideas in Forum, post them in uppweb (or both).
Please try to edit following the format (or improving it). I mean, fill ALL these fields:
- Proposed by
- Difficulty
- Experience required
- Description
- Mentors
- Roadmap
If you are an student, you can propose a project. Fill these fields as much as you can, but describing it all well, and post it in the Forum.
In next posts we will give you more details.
Best regards
Iñaki
[Updated on: Fri, 11 February 2011 23:00] Report message to a moderator
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Re: Google Summer of Code [message #31198 is a reply to message #25695] |
Sat, 12 February 2011 22:38 |
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It is very important to have ideas of various difficulties listed in the ideas section. So far there has been only very difficult tasks and we ain't gonna lure those students to work for us if we offer them only hard work
So I just added a new, simple idea to write a GUI frontend for git, with possible integration into TheIDE, similar to usvn. If you have another any ideas from the simple to medium parts of the spectrum, please fill them in as well.
Honza
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