SoC March 2007

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Student applications begin March 14th
by Giovanni Corriga 13 Mar '07

13 Mar '07

Hi all, this is just a reminder that the Summer of Code student applications begin on March 14th. You should start thinking about your application and prepare a draft, so that you can submit it as soon as possible. Of course, I assume that Squeak's application as a mentoring organization will be accepted. We don't have a template, but if you want to propose one, feel free to do so. A couple of you have already taken part in the 2006 edition of SoC, so if you want to provide any hints, please do ;-). Some useful info on your application may be found here: http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/AdviceforStudents http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=60305&topic=10727 http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=60306&topic=10727 Questions/thoughts? Giovanni

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Application submitted
by Giovanni Corriga 07 Mar '07

07 Mar '07

Hi, I've just submitted the application to SoC. Stef, since you're the backup administrator, you'll receive a message on your gmail account asking for confirmation. Without your confirmation, our application won't be accepted. I've also locked the ideas page, with password: "google". You shouldn't need to do any changes anyway. Ciao, Giovanni

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"Seaside and Sails" project
by Giovanni Corriga 05 Mar '07

05 Mar '07

Hi Stef, I've hijacked your "Seaside on Rails" proposal, assigning it to me. You may find it here: http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/5952 . Please take a look at it and tell me if it's similar to your idea. Giovanni

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"Peek" project
by Giovanni Corriga 05 Mar '07

05 Mar '07

Hi Matthew, I've moved you project idea to a separate page: http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/5957 Since it was your idea, you should complete the proposal by filling in the "Benefits for the Student" and "Benefits for the Community" sections, because I really don't know what to write ;-) Giovanni

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Mentoring organization submissions start in a couple of hours
by Giovanni Corriga 05 Mar '07

05 Mar '07

Hi all, in a couple of hours Google will start accepting submissions for the SoC 2007. Could you all review the questions page [1] and the ideas page(s) [2], please? Thanks, Giovanni [1] http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/5935 [2] http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/5936 and related.

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Project Ideas List - Final Draft
by Giovanni Corriga 05 Mar '07

05 Mar '07

Hi all, I've produced a final draft of the project ideas list. I've moved each idea to a separate page, keeping only a summary on: http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/5936 . Each idea has this format: -Mentor -Project Outline -Technical Details -Benefits to the Student -Benefits to the Community I'd like for all the mentors to complete the pages of the ideas they're responsible for. I've also dropped a couple of ideas: - Squeak-Gtk (too vague) - Skins (too vague) - Exupery CPU and Mac ports (since they can't be delivered in an iterative way) Giovanni

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keeping a backup of all the material
by stephane ducasse 03 Mar '07

03 Mar '07

Hi giovanni when you will send the proposal could you put me on CC or the list so that we can keep a trace of the projects. We could use some not-squeak only projects for summertalk. (I think that we can have one 5 projects two or three that are squeak only). I think also that we should favor projects where the student and the mentor can meet physically when this is possible. Mathieu and florent on their Summertalk project worked until december 2006 :) Stef

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Re: [SoC] Project Ideas deadline - Saturday 3rd 12:00 GMT
by Giovanni Corriga 03 Mar '07

03 Mar '07

Il giorno sab, 03/03/2007 alle 08.39 +0100, stephane ducasse ha scritto: > Ok giovanni then we should remove it since nicolas is really expert > in that domain. Done. Giovanni

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Project Proposal - Pier
by Keith Hodges 03 Mar '07

03 Mar '07

OWTRTA - One Wiki to Rule Them All. Project Outline: Develop a wiki translation engine using Pier, enabling Pier to routinely read and write other wiki formats. Using a configuration of Pier with the OODBMS Magma as a back end, test and explore scalability issues with the goal of importing wikipedia. The ability to have a full text search of the persisted data is required. Technical details: Pier is a wiki engine designed explicitly to be extensible and scalable. Unlike the majority of wiki implementations Pier has a very clean design which uses a number of classic design patterns. Wiki formatted content is read using a parser into its internal object-model representation, the parser is generated from a parser compiler. Benefits to the Student: This project will be beneficial to any Computer Science student, reflecting much of what they will have been taught. It will providing a learning opportunity through exposure to the full, clean, source code of every facet of these particular technologies, which represent the best of their class, in terms of their design. For example, as a starting point the student will begin by learning how to use a compiler-compiler as a parser generator. Benefits to the community: A large amount of information is being held in legacy wiki's, within the squeak community alone wiki.squeak.org has over 5000 pages. Pier needs some enhancements before it is ready to take up the mantel. Magma is a relatively new OODBMS, which is beginning to be used in some commercial environments and these would benefit greatly from the scalability testing involved in this project. hows that for a first draft? Keith ___________________________________________________________ All New Yahoo! Mail Tired of Vi@gr@! come-ons? Let our SpamGuard protect you. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html

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Project Proposal - Rake-style build system
by Brian Rice 03 Mar '07

03 Mar '07

Project outline (cribbed from Keith's proposal): Translate the ideas of Rake into a Squeak library / facility using OSProcess. Technical details: Squeak can run scripts through OSProcess [1], but it doesn't have a framework for declarative building of various targets that is customarily exhibited by Make or Ant. Ruby's Rake [2] demonstrates an interesting approach to this problem that could be implemented in Squeak readily and used for building and testing automation beyond the Squeak image. Benefits to the student: The student would gain familiarity with the requirements and logic and algorithms involved in a reliable and sensible declarative and configurable build system. They would be able to explore this in a live-objects environment which could offer opportunities for innovation in this area. Benefits to the community: This would provide Squeak with a declarative, idempotent build system for external files and programs as well as other Squeak images, that also integrates well with other Squeak code and libraries. It could even offer new facilities for building Squeak images using the Installer [3] tool. Mentor: Brian Rice Refs: [1] http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/708 [2] http://rake.rubyforge.org/ [3] http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/Installer (Honestly, this feels vague and hand-wavey... refinements would be welcome!) -- -Brian http://briantrice.com

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