A lot of you noticed already that Ubuntu is going to participate in Google’s Summer of Code!
This is an awesome opportunity for students learning more about open source development and life in a Linux distribution and for the open source world as a whole.
If you want to participate make sure you generally
- take a bit of time and read the documentation very carefully
- join the ubuntu-soc mailing list and introduce yourself
- join the #ubuntu-gsoc irc channel on freenode
As a mentor:
- do all of the general steps above
- read the mentors instructions again
- add yourself to the list of mentors
- if you have a project idea, add to the list of ideas
- register at Google
As a student:
- do all of the general steps above
- read the students instructions again
- create a profile on the wiki and write up a more detailed spec for your project
- register at Google
And now over to a more selfish part of the blog post: I handed in a project idea myself, which will deal with Harvest. If you know quite a bit about Django and web design and want to work on a great tool that will make contributing to Ubuntu Development easier, get in touch with me. I’m sure we can make Harvest rock even harder.
Hi Daniel!
You’ve suddenly grabbed my interest about Harvest. Staring at it now
The idea page mentions touching up the main page, so I poked through the wiki and found lots of nice mockups and hopes for a redesign. Is that plan in motion? (Would you be interested in a GSoC student implementing to that spec?)
Yes, the plan is in motion and I hope you checked out lp:harvest instead of looking at the old, boring and broken http://daniel.holba.ch/harvest page.
The SoC project would be about reorganising Harvest so that less irrelevant data is shown, so it’s quicker and stuff that specific people are interested in is easier to find. This will involve a bit of research.