Summer of Code
OLPC is one of the mentoring groups for this year's Google Summer of Code (GSoC). They are listed under "One Laptop per Child"
Some commonly asked questions may be answered in the Summer of Code chat FAQ.
This is a page for the 2008 Google Summer of Code.
- Update: Mentor applications are being accepted. Please also leave a note below indicating your background and interest in mentoring, and any specific area or class of projects you would like to mentor. March 18, 2008
- Update : Student applications are being accepted. March 24, 2008
Ideas and Proposals
We have a separate page for ideas this year.
Student proposals 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.
Mentoring
If you are interested in mentoring participants, please read the 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 Sj and leave a note below with a link to your userpage, where you should describe your background.
Interested mentors
- José L. Redrejo Rodríguez <jredrejo en edu.juntaextremadura.net> is interested in mentoring the from 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.
- Done.
- User:Wade is interested in mentoring activity development. I added several possible projects to the Ideas page.
- Done.
- 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.
- Both Done.!
- Blake Setlow, <AIM: Polygeomorph> is interested in mentoring. I live in NYC, work in finance, 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.
- Done.
- Prof. Dr. Alexander Gelbukh is interested in mentoring twexter.
- 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.
- Chris Hager would also be happy to mentor one python software project
- Done.
- Manusheel Gupta 'needs' to mentor on JS-Python Communication and activities: Education Toolkit, Food Force Project, and Deducto game.
- Done.
- Sayamindu Dasgupta is willing to mentor Activity Translation Activity
- Done.
- Homunq hopes to be ineligible to mentor (because I want to participate: see [1]) 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 gsoc list
- RafaelOrtiz. Interested in mentoring spanish speaking students, that want to work on XO software development.
- Done.
- Erikos. Interested in mentoring Hemant Goyal's Speech Synthesis Integration
- Done.
- ypod. Interested in mentoring the development of tools for Mesh Networking
- Done.
- Matthew M. Burke [2]. 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.
- Done.; there are a number of suitable projects to look at.
- 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 Paint Activity and/or Colors!
- A math activity like Harold and Will Thimbleby's calculator.
Important Dates
- 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
