Re: [Urgent] GNUstep at Google Summer of Code'2009

[Xavier Glattard]

Adam Fedor a écrit :
> On Mar 10, 2009, at 7:25 AM, Xavier Glattard wrote:
>
> > I don't know what are the requirements for mentors, but I would be 
> > glad to help and take care of one small project :)
>
> A big factor in how many students google gives us is the number of 
> students who apply to work with us, so the more ideas and more 
> advertisement we get, the better chance to get more students and more 
> work done.

So i just have to add my name and (many) ideas in the lists ?

I don't live in a big city. I can think of 2 or 3 tiny computer 
engineering schools nearby (less than 100km). Around 100 students. I 
don't expect many of these students would apply to work on GNUstep.
Do we have to rely on Google for advertisement ?

As I'm working on gscoredata I can submit some ideas about it. Some of 
the already submitted ideas will still apply after my work. 
http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Summer_Of_Code_Ideas
- SQLite, XML, binary, etc. NSPersistentStore subclasses
- improve DataBuilder.app
- file formats compatible with Cocoa, including model.

About the backend :
- unified backend : Windows and X11 backends share a lot of
    functionalities...
- Cairo/Glitz/OpenGL backend : needs some work on Glitz I'm afraid
- Cairo/DirectFB backend : someone posted here about that some
    months ago

About AppKit:
- NSMovie/QTMovie class based on vlc or other...
- NSOpenGLPixelBuffer class

Does GAP stand for "Application project" ? Does that mean that any 
GNUstep/Cocoa based project could be submitted ? And not only GNUstep 
specific.
- new 3DKit
- multiplatform OpenGL extensions API (glu-like)
- multiplatform HID API : joystick...
Or any graphic or gaming related project in which some students will 
surely be interested.


Some open source Cocoa applications might be ported to GNUstep:
- Vim GUI : two cocoa-based gui projects already exist
- Mozilla Gecko : many cocoa projects
- OpenOffice : released some week ago
- VLC
- NetHack3D
http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl?CocoaOpen
http://osx.hyperjeff.net/Apps/apps?sub=100&t=1&s=on

If there is no objection I will soon add these ideas in the list.

- Regards
-- Xavier