Haiku Makes it Into Google Summer of Code 2008
We are very pleased to announce that, for the second straight year, Haiku has been accepted as a mentor organization for the Google Summer of Code. The student application period will start soon, so if you are a student who would like to work on a Haiku project for the GSoC 2008, please check out our List of GSoC Ideas and Students: How to Apply pages for detailed information on how to apply. If you still have any questions specific to GSoC after reading these pages, please contact the Haiku GSoC administrator (Bruno Albuquerque). If you have any general questions about Haiku and want to start familiarizing yourself with our community, which we encourage you to, please join the Haiku development mailing list and also feel free to stop by the #haiku IRC channel on irc.freenode.net. Our friendly community members will be glad to help you out in pursuing a Haiku project for the GSoC 2008 and beyond.
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Re: Haiku Makes it Into Google Summer of Code 2008
AWESOME news :-)
Re: Haiku Makes it Into Google Summer of Code 2008
This is definitely great news...
Can't wait to see what projects get signed up for! :)
Re: Haiku Makes it Into Google Summer of Code 2008
Once again ... good to see Haiku was accepted into this year's GSoC. Last year was a great success for Haiku, so I'm really looking forward to the quality and quantity of commits to the repository.
Re: Haiku Makes it Into Google Summer of Code 2008
Thanks again for your faith in Haiku Googlers !
Re: Haiku Makes it Into Google Summer of Code 2008
Fabulous news! Thanks to Google for the continued support. Big thanks to the Haiku folks who guided our application through Google's process!
Looking forward to exciting new code advances!
Re: Haiku Makes it Into Google Summer of Code 2008
That's quite a long list someone figured out, but maybe there is more that can be added to it?
1. Localisation kit
Maybe this is a bit to early, but that's for someone else to say. Isn't localisation something that gets more important by the minute as Haiku matures on other ends of the system?
2. Mobile phone control center
Such as popular Floats on windows. One thing I personally hate is that each vendor have their own application for communicating with the phone. As it is indeed likely it'll take years before someone of the mobile vendors will support Haiku, why not build a generic app on top and have "mobile phone drivers" which will work?
2b. Windows wrapper/layer for mobile phones
At best, application / kit above would obviously be able to use info from the Windows equivalent to communicate with the phone.
3. CTI/SIP?
Has anything been done in this area? As in Computer telephony integration and the SIP protocol. As Haiku (IMO) has potential of being something embedded, wouldn't this be a great thing to fix? Putting in SIP and working on CTI to get stuff running?
4. TWAIN/Scanner reading
Not sure if this is implemented but if it isn't it should be time to work out something for handling scanners. On the list above is DV, Scanners should be something important as well. Maybe this is already fixed, but if not, having an API for this in Image programs and similar would be swell I suppose?
Note: I'm not a dev and can not judge whether above is implemented already or not, but I find them to be interesting to add if they're not.
Cheers