The following projects are being run as Google Summer of Code projects this year (2008):
http://socghop.appspot.com/org_app/show/google/gsoc2009/dspace
Accepted Projects
This years accepted Students
- Gaurav Kejriwal Google Summer of Code 2009 Submission Enhancements
- Andrius Blazinskas Google Summer of Code 2009 Fedora Integration
- Ashly Markose Google Summer of Code 2009 Report Generation Tool
- Bojan Suzic Google Summer of Code 2009 DSpace REST Webapp
A Note About Our Process
The determination of appropriate projects is a collaborative effort between those community members (preferably developers) and students (preferably computer science students or adepts). We highly recommend that prospective students join in to the IRC channel and list-servs and discuss ideas for project with the community prior to submitting a proposal. the order of your proposal submission is irrelevant in the decision making process for selection. What is more important is that the mentors for you project have a strong interest in supporting it during the evaluation process.
Review the existing project ideas or create your own and place your student proposal at the GSoC 2009 Site: http://socghop.appspot.com
A word of warning, in past years, bulk applications have been immediately rejected as "insincere".
Likewise, proposals that do not effectively outline:
- who you are (i.e. your academic background)
- why you want to participate
- what you propose to do
- how you will do it
- and finally a clearly defined timeline/project plan
have generally been rejected in the past. We received about 30 applications last year, of which only 4 projects were awarded to us by Google. Yes, that is correct, we do not select how many students can ultimately win, we only rank them according to the communities interest in mentoring the project and it is as much a competition between the mentors as it is the students.
Communications
Registring as GSoC Student
No reason to not start talking with DSpace community members about projects. We will post the link for accessing the Student Registration Form when it shows up on Monday.
http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/program/google/gsoc2009/studentallocations
Registering as GSoC Mentor
http://socghop.appspot.com/mentor/request/google/gsoc2009/dspace
Technical Discussions
Please be sure to use the dspace-devel at lists.sourceforge.net listserv for discussing technical details and project development with the whole community.
We recommend using bracketed subject prefixes to allow others to filter those emails if necessary...
Searches can then span the whole set by using just "[gsoc"
[gsoc Search in List
Administrative Requests
Please use the dspace-gsoc at lists.sourceforge.net listserve for administrative/internal issues within the group.
Source Control
Source code for the DSPace Summer of Code 2009 projects is being hosted in our own SVN server:
https://scm.dspace.org/svn/repo/sandbox/gsoc/2009/
Students will have a branch of the DSpace source-code of their choosing setup within this structure under a path:
https://scm.dspace.org/svn/repo/sandbox/gsoc/2009/[your project]
SoC Students should have write access to the relevant area of the repository, and are encouraged to check in code regularly. If you have any problems, please contact your mentor.
The code available in this repository has read access for anonymous users, so is publicly available.