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'''Update''' : We need mentors for 2009 -- please add yourself to the '''[[#Mentors|Mentors]] list''' if you are willing to mentor a student. 20:22, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

OLPC has applied to be one of the mentoring groups for this year's Google Summer of Code (GSoC), listed under "One Laptop per Child".  ([http://code.google.com/soc/2008/olpc/about.html last year])

Some commonly asked questions may be answered in the [[Summer of Code chat FAQ]].

This is a page for the 2009 '''Google Summer of Code'''.  Student applications have not begun to be accepted yet.

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== Funded Proposals from 2008 ==
'' These are good examples of successful proposals:''

[http://code.google.com/soc/2008/olpc/appinfo.html?csaid=711720542810A05F Integration of Speech Synthesis in Sugar Environment]

[http://code.google.com/soc/2008/olpc/appinfo.html?csaid=7C846CE555F9825C An educational program for teaching handwriting]

[http://code.google.com/soc/2008/olpc/appinfo.html?csaid=F042B0319BC16F53 Listen and Spell]

[http://code.google.com/soc/2008/olpc/appinfo.html?csaid=9FEE89D188E4CE8A Vision Processing]

=== Related Proposals from 2008 ===

[http://code.google.com/soc/2008/gnome/appinfo.html?csaid=716A5C14ACB65ABB Developping the VoIP features of Telepathy/Empathy with a focus on video conference]

[http://code.google.com/soc/2008/openmoko/appinfo.html?csaid=F194F69181816D98 IM/VoIP using telepathy]

[http://code.google.com/soc/2008/gstreamer/appinfo.html?csaid=61B8ACBF74C8B474 PiTiVi Open-Source Video Editor]

[http://code.google.com/soc/2008/fedora/appinfo.html?csaid=53F22CD6DEC4CD58 Non linear ogg editor/ Screencast helper]

[http://code.google.com/soc/2008/gstreamer/appinfo.html?csaid=BC710D54087F7CE7 Media service to transcode video and audio in different formats]

[http://code.google.com/soc/2008/metabrainz/appinfo.html?csaid=AFCBC1CAB9F4EF25 Music collection]

[http://code.google.com/soc/moodle/about.html Moodle]

[http://code.google.com/soc/2008/psf/appinfo.html?csaid=13F0E9C8B6E064EF Python Memory Profiler]

[http://code.google.com/soc/2008/psf/appinfo.html?csaid=F89A4969030B59E6 OLPC Project Automated Testing]

[http://code.google.com/soc/2008/sakai/about.html Sakai]

[http://code.google.com/soc/2008/squeak/about.html Squeak]

[http://code.google.com/soc/2008/translate/about.html Pootle]

[http://code.google.com/soc/2008/tux4kids/about.html Tux4Kids]

[http://code.google.com/soc/2008/xorg/appinfo.html?csaid=1D77399707403622 Moving all the input code into a separate thread]

[http://code.google.com/soc/2008/xorg/appinfo.html?csaid=B74F23564FCCB476 GUI tool for assisted editing of the XKB configuration database]

[http://code.google.com/soc/2008/clam/appinfo.html?csaid=AE2EEC2E19810C2 Educational Vowel Synthesiser]

[http://code.google.com/soc/2008/pano/about.html hugin/panotools]

[http://code.google.com/soc/2008/intarch/appinfo.html?csaid=4BE7246EEEBE5585 Book Viewer for the OLPC]

[http://code.google.com/soc/2008/sdl/appinfo.html?csaid=47BE9824CC87F1C8 Refresh pointing device support]

Some of the projects above do not directly benefit OLPC, but many are extremely helpful; our thanks for all of this support for great open source work!


== Ideas and Proposals ==

We have a separate page for [[Summer of Code/Ideas|ideas]] this year.

Student proposals from all years can be found in [[:Category:GSoC_proposals]]. Students are encouraged to create a wiki page for their project proposal and put in that category in order to get feedback from the wider OLPC community.

== Mentors ==

If you are interested in mentoring participants, please read the [http://code.google.com/soc/mentorfaq.html mentor FAQ]. Note that both the ability to spend significant time mentoring, and the quality of the students are key to a good return on investment by the mentor, and the learning by the students.  Please do not sign up to be a mentor unless you are certain you can meet the obligations of being a good mentor.  If you are interested in mentoring, please send mail to [[User:Sj|Sj]] and leave a note below with a link to your userpage, where you should describe your background. 

=== Interested mentors ===

==== for 2009 ====
* --[[User:Sj|Sj]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Sj|<font style="color:#f70; font-size:70%">talk</font>]]
* [[user:jgay|jgay]] (for bookreader related proposals)
* [[user:Yamaplos|Yamaplos]] especially interested in helping with usability issues

==== older interest ====
''if you are interested in mentoring in 2009, please add yourself to the 2009 section above..''
* José L. Redrejo Rodríguez <jredrejo en edu.juntaextremadura.net> is interested in mentoring the from  [[Summer_of_Code/2008/Ideas#Improve_DrGeo|Improve DrGeo]] idea. I've been working in implementing DrGeo II in the schools of Extremadura, so I think I have experience, knowledge and a big test field to mentor this project.
* [[User:Wade]] is interested in mentoring activity development.  I added several possible projects to the Ideas page.
* MSc, Luis G. Lira and MSc,Paola Lira, Free Culture Peru, lira.lg at pucp.edu.pe, We are interested in mentoring math, science, technology and development activities relevant to rural schools in Peru. 
* Blake Setlow is interested in mentoring.  I live in Baltimore and have experience working in C++ and Python, including some threading, networking, and Windows programming in Python.  My background in physics and data analysis will help if I mentor a project involving measurement.
*[http://www.gelbukh.com Prof. Dr. Alexander Gelbukh] is interested in mentoring [[WiXi|twexter]].
*: Did you try to sign up as a mentor?  --[[User:Sj|Sj]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Sj|<font style="color:#f70; font-size:70%">talk</font>]]
*: I signed up for One Laptop per Child organization (not sure if this is what was expected). -- A. Gelbukh. (I'd prefer [http://www.gelbukh.com#Contact email] or [http://www.gelbukh.com#Contact skype] communication.)
* Martin Langhoff is more than happy to mentor up to 3 projects on the XS. Post to the server-devel mailing list if some server OS and webapp development is of interest!
*: Thanks~ and {{done}}
* [[User:Crazy-chris|Chris Hager]] would also be happy to mentor one python software project
*: {{done}}
* [[User:Manu|Manusheel Gupta]] 'needs' to mentor on JS-Python Communication and activities: Education Toolkit, Food Force Project, and Deducto game.
* Sayamindu Dasgupta is willing to mentor [[Summer_of_Code/Ideas#Activity_Translation_Activity|Activity Translation Activity]]
* [[User:Homunq|Homunq]] hopes to be ineligible to mentor (because I want to participate: see [http://code.google.com/opensource/gsoc/2008/faqs.html#0.1_mentor_and_student]) but could help "guide" a project involving Develop (say, adding a debugger), or help with language issues if a participant has Spanish as a first language. I live in Guatemala, UTC-6 (and other mentors should include their time zone).
*: The help is appreciated; you can contribute a great deal by replying to ideas on the <tt>gsoc</tt> list
* [[User:RafaelOrtiz|RafaelOrtiz]]. Interested in mentoring spanish speaking students, that want to work on XO software development.
* [[User:Erikos|Erikos]]. Interested in mentoring Hemant Goyal's Speech Synthesis Integration
* [http://web.media.mit.edu/~ypod ypod]. Interested in mentoring the development of tools for [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Summer_of_Code/2008/Ideas#Mesh_Networking Mesh Networking]
* Matthew M. Burke [http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~mmburke].  Willing to mentor several students.  Particularly interested in visualization, development of software coding tools (particularly ones that make novel use of the mesh network), and games.  Washington, DC, USA, UTC-5.
* [[User:Pdubroy|Patrick Dubroy]]. Currently working on [[Pen Tablet Support]] and [[Pen Tablet UI]]. Interested in mentoring a student working on either a new activity, or an enhancement of an existing one. Some ideas: 
:* Adding tablet support to [[Draw | Paint Activity]] and/or [[Colors!]]
:* A math activity like [http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/calculators/ Harold and Will Thimbleby's calculator].

== Important Dates ==

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=== 2008 ===
* March 3: Start of mentoring organization application process
* March 12: Mentoring organization application deadline
* March 17: List of accepted mentoring organizations published
* March 24: Start of student application time period 
* April 7: End of student application period(After date extension)
* April 21: Accepted student proposals announced
* May 26: Start of coding
* July 7: Midterm evaluation starts
* July 14: End of midterm evaluation
* August 18: End of coding period, final evaluation begins
* September 1: Deadline for final evaluations
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== Useful Documents ==
* [http://www.gnome.org/~federico/docs/summer-of-code-mentoring-howto/index.html Summer of Code Mentoring HOWTO]
* [http://code.google.com/soc/ FAQ]