changeset: 70:b8abffe3f5cf
tag: tip
user: arg_AT_sandbox.suckless.org
date: Wed Mar 18 19:52:05 2009 +0000
files: www.suckless.org/GSoC2009.md www.suckless.org/common/project_ideas.md
description:
removed GSoC2009 page
diff -r 5f3798d57189 -r b8abffe3f5cf www.suckless.org/GSoC2009.md
--- a/www.suckless.org/GSoC2009.md Wed Mar 18 12:58:34 2009 +0100
+++ b/www.suckless.org/GSoC2009.md Wed Mar 18 19:52:05 2009 +0000
_AT_@ -1,288 +1,1 @@
-Google Summer of Code 2009
-==========================
-We are applying as a mentoring organization for [Google Summer of Code 2009](
http://code.google.com/soc/).
-
-<center>[](
http://code.google.com/soc/)</center>
-
-Background
-----------
-We are the home of quality software such as [dwm](
http://dwm.suckless.org),
-[dmenu](
http://tools.suckless.org), [libixp](
http://libs.suckless.org/libixp),
-[wmii](
http://wmii.suckless.org) and plenty of other [tools](
http://tools.suckless.org), with
-a focus on simplicity, clarity and frugality. Our [philosophy](/common/) is
-about keeping things simple, minimal and usable. We believe this should become
-the mainstream philosophy in the IT sector. Unfortunately, the tendency for
-complex, error-prone and slow software seems to be prevalent in the present-day
-software industry. We intend to prove the opposite with our software projects.
-
-Our project focuses on advanced and experienced computer users. In contrast
-with the usual proprietary software world or many mainstream open source
-projects that focus more on average and non-technical end users, we think that
-experienced users are mostly ignored. This is particularly true for user
-interfaces, such as graphical environments on desktop computers, on mobile
-devices, and in so-called Web applications. We believe that the market of
-experienced users is growing continously, with each user looking for more
-appropriate solutions for his/her work style.
-
-Designing simple and elegant software is far more difficult than letting ad-hoc
-or over-ambitious features obscure the code over time. However one has to pay
-this price to achieve reliability and maintainability. Furthermore, minimalism
-results in reasonable and attainable goals. We strive to maintain minimalism and
-clarity to drive development to completion.
-
-Our steadily increasing community consists of about — roughly speaking —
-2000-3500 users (based on mailing list members and downloads), and of
-about 20-30 active contributors who discuss, review and contribute code to the
-project on [dedicated project mailing lists and on IRC](/common/community).
-
-Mentors
--------
-We intend that each student will be the project leader of his/her particular
-project and the only individual with commit privilege for the repository.
-
-There will be one mentor and one backup mentor per project. In addition, the
-suckless.org community will act as a rigid external reviewer of the
-student's progress, as well as of the mentor's.
-
-The following persons have volunteered to serve as mentor during Google
-Summer of Code 2009:
-
-* Anselm R Garbe <<garbeam_AT_gmail.com>>
-* Szabolcs Nagy <<nszabolcs_AT_gmail.com>>
-* Tuncer Ayaz <<tuncer.ayaz_AT_gmail.com>>
-* Uriel <<uriel99_AT_gmail.com>>
-* Kai Hendry <<kai.hendry_AT_gmail.com>>
-* pancake <<pancake_AT_nopcode.org>>
-* Enno 'Gottox' Boland <<gottox_AT_gmail.com>>
-* Christoph Lohmann <<20h_AT_r-36.net>>
-* ...more to be announced...
-
-If you want to act as a mentor as well, please contact Anselm before you
-add yourself to the list.
-
-General ideas
--------------
-Our project ideas for Google Summer of Code 2009 are in general intended
-to focus on:
-
-* Graphical user interfaces for expert users (such as more advanced
- concepts for mail clients, messaging clients, music players, text editors)
-* Web applications for expert users following our GUI concepts
-* Mobile applications for expert users following our GUI concepts
-* General userland enhancements to Unix-like operating systems, in particular
- GNU/Linux
-* Audio applications
-* Image/Streaming/Gallery desktop and web applications
-* Foundations of a new windowing system for Unix-like operating systems
- (based on xorg drivers, but no X11- or XServer-dependency)
-* Improvements of our existing software projects
-
-Concrete ideas
---------------
-Post your project ideas for students projects during Google Summer of Code
-2009 here. See the [FAQ entry][FAQ] on the ideas list for further details.
-
-The listed ideas generally require good knowledge of C and experience with
-Unix-like operating systems. The difficulty ranges from medium to high.
-An academic background in computer science is desirable but not essential.
-
-Please consider contacting us first if you want to apply for a project, so we
-can discuss the ideas first and avoid misunderstandings in the first place.
-
-### Unix utilities
-
-Projects like [dmenu](
http://tools.suckless.org/dmenu) prove that it's possible
-to bring the Unix philosophy onto the desktop and into the land of graphical
-applications. We believe that there is big potential for doing similiar things
-for other purposes such as managing contacts, bookmarks, browsing
-files/directories, reading/managing mails, organizing/viewing images/videos and
-listening to music, all in a very elegant and Unix-like way. We believe that such
-tools should have a GUI but communicate via standard I/O and be very flexible in
-the combination of their purposes.
-
-***Requirements:*** Good knowledge of the Unix userland, C and of the Xlib is essential.
-
-***Mentor(s):*** Matthias-Christian Ott
-
-***Assignee(s):***
-
-### Port dwm to different platforms
-
-Many dwm users who have to use Microsoft Windows regularly have requested a
-port of dwm to Microsoft Windows. There are several tiling window managers, but
-unfortunately the majority are proprietary software and can't keep up with dwm.
-
-Similarly we believe that porting dwm to Mac OS X, or onto mobile devices (with
-certain constraints) might create a new paradigm of future window management
-concepts in mainstream software.
-
-There might also be the opportunity to make dwm itself more friendly with
-well-established desktop environments, to integrate well with Gnome or KDE in
-order to prove that dynamic and tiled window management should be the default
-in future window management concepts.
-
-***Requirements:*** Good knowledge of the Xlib and C is desirable. Also good
-knowledge of the specific target platform, such as Cocoa/Quartz on Max OS X,
- resp. Win32 API on Windows would be desirable.
-
-***Mentor(s):*** Anselm R Garbe
-
-***Assignee(s):***
-
-### ddm
-
-There is no suckless display manager for X11 at the moment, thus a new
-dynamic display manager (ddm) should be designed and implemented.
-
-***Requirements:*** Good knowledge of the Xlib and C is desirable.
-
-***Mentor(s):*** Enno 'Gottox' Boland
-
-***Assignee(s):***
-
-### stm
-
-There seems to be a need for a suckless ticket management system, as this
-is a common task in today's daily activity in business and private time
-management. This task includes the design and implementation of a suckless
-system that solves the problems of TTS (Trouble Ticket System), ARS (Action
-Request System) and IRS (Incident Response System) all together.
-
-***Requirements:*** Good knowledge of web technologies are essential, good knowledge of C is desirable.
-
-***Mentor(s):*** Christoph Lohmann
-
-***Assignee(s):***
-
-### Lightweight volume manager alternative
-
-We'd like to see a lightweight and simple alternative to gnome-volume-manager
-and similiar programs.
-
-***Requirements:*** Good C knowledge and knowledge of DBUS and similiar techniques are essential.
-
-***Mentor(s):*** Tuncer Ayaz
-
-***Assignee(s):***
-
-### Yet another less sucking editor
-
-Although vi(m) does its job, it has become a monster over the years. We
-believe there is a gap between ed, sam, acme and vim which must be filled with
-a completely new, less-sucking editor.
-
-***Requirements:*** Good C knowledge and knowledge of I/O APIs is essential.
-
-***Mentor(s):*** TBA
-
-***Assignee(s):***
-
-### Less sucking C99 subset spec
-
-Although sufficient, C99 is not a perfect programming language. It suffers from
-legacy syntax and semantics and lacks features that make designing libraries
-and developing abstractions much easier. To address these shortcomings the
-student should survey the problems of C, evaluate possible solutions and
-enhance the language as a subset of C99.
-
-***Requirements:*** Very good C knowledge is essential.
-
-***Mentor(s):*** Szabolcs Nagy
-
-***Assignee(s):***
-
-### Modern libc
-
-The standard libc is full of awkward and legacy concepts. We believe that
-recent approaches such as Google's bionic libc are a step into the right
-direction, though not radical enough. We think there is a great opportunity to
-implement a completely new libc which abstracts a very nice standard
-environment which can be implemented on modern OS platforms in a straightforward manner.
-Our goal would be to realize an initial proposal on Linux.
-
-***Requirements:*** Very good C knowledge is essential.
-
-***Mentor(s):*** Szabolcs Nagy
-
-***Assignee(s):***
-
-### Improve tcc
-
-We'd like to see [tcc](
http://bellard.org/tcc/) being continued and improved. gcc is too slow and too
-focused on language-agnostics and particularly focused on its C++ support. We
-have the impression that most open source software is written in C and makes no
-use of C++, so we desire an improved tcc.
-
-We are also concerned about recent attempts to implement the C front-end of gcc
-in C++. We believe that is a bad decision in general (due to demanding C++ as
-bootstrapping environment) and would like to get rid of the gcc dependency
-for these reasons.
-
-We'd like the improved tcc to be able to build all suckless projects
-and perhaps the modern libc replacement.
-
-***Requirements:*** Very good C knowledge is essential as well as knowledge of x86 assembler and executable formats.
-
-***Mentor(s):*** Anselm R Garbe, Matthias-Christian Ott
-
-***Assignee(s):***
-
-### Comprehensive code audit
-
-All software hosted at suckless.org should undergo a comprehensive
-code audit. This includes search for vulnerabilities, verification of
-all algorithms, proof-reading of the documentation and possibly a code
-clean-up. The result has to be a report on all found errors and maybe some
-advice for the project maintainers. This task requires experience in this
-field.
-
-***Requirements:*** Good C knowledge is essential.
-
-***Mentor(s):*** TBA
-
-***Assignee(s):***
-
-### Improve sltar
-
-[sltar](
http://s01.de/~gottox/index.cgi/proj_sltar) is a simplified tar
-implementation which lacks gzip and bzip2 integration. The task requires to
-extend sltar with these and to also write a test suite for it.
-
-***Requirements:*** Good C knowledge would be desirable.
-
-***Mentor(s):*** Enno 'Gottox' Boland
-
-***Assignee(s):***
-
-### Write a decent mailing list Web archive system
-
-All web archive systems such as hypermail, pipermail, etc. have plenty
-drawbacks and are quite out-dated. This task requires to write a completely new
-web mailing list archiving tool that follows the thread view concepts found in
-the mutt MUA and which is designed with low footprint and efficiency in mind.
-
-We expect this tool as a stand-alone Unix tool written in C or shell.
-
-***Requirements:*** Good C/Shell/HTML5 knowledge would be desirable.
-
-***Mentor(s):*** Kai Hendry with some [thoughts on the topic](
http://natalian.org/archives/2008/10/07/marking-up-mail/)
-
-***Assignee(s):***
-
-### Extend werc with a repository browser
-
-This task requires to extend [werc](
http://werc.cat-v.org) with a source
-browser for VCS repositories including support for
-[subversion](
http://subversion.tigris.org/),
-[mercurial](
http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/) and [git](
http://git-scm.com).
-
-***Requirements:*** Good knowledge of the [rc](
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rc) shell
-and the [Plan 9 userland for Unix](
http://plan9.us) is essential. Good C
-knowledge for the helper tools would be desirable.
-
-***Mentor(s):*** Uriel
-
-***Assignee(s):***
-
-
-[FAQ]:
http://code.google.com/opensource/gsoc/2009/faqs.html#0_1_ideas_5167658354380897_772
+Please see [here](common/project_ideas).
diff -r 5f3798d57189 -r b8abffe3f5cf www.suckless.org/common/project_ideas.md
--- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/www.suckless.org/common/project_ideas.md Wed Mar 18 19:52:05 2009 +0000
_AT_@ -0,0 +1,203 @@
+PROJECT IDEAS FOR FUTURE GSOCs
+==============================
+We applyed as a mentoring organization for [Google Summer of Code 2009](
http://code.google.com/soc/), but were rejected this time. Perhaps we will apply in 2010 again.
+
+Background
+----------
+We are the home of quality software such as [dwm](
http://dwm.suckless.org),
+[dmenu](
http://tools.suckless.org), [libixp](
http://libs.suckless.org/libixp),
+[wmii](
http://wmii.suckless.org) and plenty of other [tools](
http://tools.suckless.org), with
+a focus on simplicity, clarity and frugality. Our [philosophy](/common/) is
+about keeping things simple, minimal and usable. We believe this should become
+the mainstream philosophy in the IT sector. Unfortunately, the tendency for
+complex, error-prone and slow software seems to be prevalent in the present-day
+software industry. We intend to prove the opposite with our software projects.
+
+Our project focuses on advanced and experienced computer users. In contrast
+with the usual proprietary software world or many mainstream open source
+projects that focus more on average and non-technical end users, we think that
+experienced users are mostly ignored. This is particularly true for user
+interfaces, such as graphical environments on desktop computers, on mobile
+devices, and in so-called Web applications. We believe that the market of
+experienced users is growing continously, with each user looking for more
+appropriate solutions for his/her work style.
+
+Designing simple and elegant software is far more difficult than letting ad-hoc
+or over-ambitious features obscure the code over time. However one has to pay
+this price to achieve reliability and maintainability. Furthermore, minimalism
+results in reasonable and attainable goals. We strive to maintain minimalism and
+clarity to drive development to completion.
+
+Mentors
+-------
+We intend that each student will be the project leader of his/her particular
+project and the only individual with commit privilege for the repository.
+
+There will be one mentor and one backup mentor per project. In addition, the
+suckless.org community will act as a rigid external reviewer of the
+student's progress, as well as of the mentor's.
+
+General ideas
+-------------
+Our project ideas in general intended to focus on:
+
+* Graphical user interfaces for expert users (such as more advanced
+ concepts for mail clients, messaging clients, music players, text editors)
+* Web applications for expert users following our GUI concepts
+* Mobile applications for expert users following our GUI concepts
+* General userland enhancements to Unix-like operating systems, in particular
+ GNU/Linux
+* Audio applications
+* Image/Streaming/Gallery desktop and web applications
+* Foundations of a new windowing system for Unix-like operating systems
+ (based on xorg drivers, but no X11- or XServer-dependency)
+* Improvements of our existing software projects
+
+Concrete ideas
+--------------
+The listed ideas generally require good knowledge of C and experience with
+Unix-like operating systems. The difficulty ranges from medium to high.
+An academic background in computer science is desirable but not essential.
+
+### Unix utilities
+
+Projects like [dmenu](
http://tools.suckless.org/dmenu) prove that it's possible
+to bring the Unix philosophy onto the desktop and into the land of graphical
+applications. We believe that there is big potential for doing similiar things
+for other purposes such as managing contacts, bookmarks, browsing
+files/directories, reading/managing mails, organizing/viewing images/videos and
+listening to music, all in a very elegant and Unix-like way. We believe that such
+tools should have a GUI but communicate via standard I/O and be very flexible in
+the combination of their purposes.
+
+***Requirements:*** Good knowledge of the Unix userland, C and of the Xlib is essential.
+
+### Port dwm to different platforms
+
+Many dwm users who have to use Microsoft Windows regularly have requested a
+port of dwm to Microsoft Windows. There are several tiling window managers, but
+unfortunately the majority are proprietary software and can't keep up with dwm.
+
+Similarly we believe that porting dwm to Mac OS X, or onto mobile devices (with
+certain constraints) might create a new paradigm of future window management
+concepts in mainstream software.
+
+There might also be the opportunity to make dwm itself more friendly with
+well-established desktop environments, to integrate well with Gnome or KDE in
+order to prove that dynamic and tiled window management should be the default
+in future window management concepts.
+
+***Requirements:*** Good knowledge of the Xlib and C is desirable. Also good
+knowledge of the specific target platform, such as Cocoa/Quartz on Max OS X,
+ resp. Win32 API on Windows would be desirable.
+
+### ddm
+
+There is no suckless display manager for X11 at the moment, thus a new
+dynamic display manager (ddm) should be designed and implemented.
+
+***Requirements:*** Good knowledge of the Xlib and C is desirable.
+
+### stm
+
+There seems to be a need for a suckless ticket management system, as this
+is a common task in today's daily activity in business and private time
+management. This task includes the design and implementation of a suckless
+system that solves the problems of TTS (Trouble Ticket System), ARS (Action
+Request System) and IRS (Incident Response System) all together.
+
+***Requirements:*** Good knowledge of web technologies are essential, good knowledge of C is desirable.
+
+### Lightweight volume manager alternative
+
+We'd like to see a lightweight and simple alternative to gnome-volume-manager
+and similiar programs.
+
+***Requirements:*** Good C knowledge and knowledge of DBUS and similiar techniques are essential.
+
+### Yet another less sucking editor
+
+Although vi(m) does its job, it has become a monster over the years. We
+believe there is a gap between ed, sam, acme and vim which must be filled with
+a completely new, less-sucking editor.
+
+***Requirements:*** Good C knowledge and knowledge of I/O APIs is essential.
+
+### Less sucking C99 subset spec
+
+Although sufficient, C99 is not a perfect programming language. It suffers from
+legacy syntax and semantics and lacks features that make designing libraries
+and developing abstractions much easier. To address these shortcomings the
+student should survey the problems of C, evaluate possible solutions and
+enhance the language as a subset of C99.
+
+***Requirements:*** Very good C knowledge is essential.
+
+### Modern libc
+
+The standard libc is full of awkward and legacy concepts. We believe that
+recent approaches such as Google's bionic libc are a step into the right
+direction, though not radical enough. We think there is a great opportunity to
+implement a completely new libc which abstracts a very nice standard
+environment which can be implemented on modern OS platforms in a straightforward manner.
+Our goal would be to realize an initial proposal on Linux.
+
+***Requirements:*** Very good C knowledge is essential.
+
+### Improve tcc
+
+We'd like to see [tcc](
http://bellard.org/tcc/) being continued and improved. gcc is too slow and too
+focused on language-agnostics and particularly focused on its C++ support. We
+have the impression that most open source software is written in C and makes no
+use of C++, so we desire an improved tcc.
+
+We are also concerned about recent attempts to implement the C front-end of gcc
+in C++. We believe that is a bad decision in general (due to demanding C++ as
+bootstrapping environment) and would like to get rid of the gcc dependency
+for these reasons.
+
+We'd like the improved tcc to be able to build all suckless projects
+and perhaps the modern libc replacement.
+
+***Requirements:*** Very good C knowledge is essential as well as knowledge of x86 assembler and executable formats.
+
+### Comprehensive code audit
+
+All software hosted at suckless.org should undergo a comprehensive
+code audit. This includes search for vulnerabilities, verification of
+all algorithms, proof-reading of the documentation and possibly a code
+clean-up. The result has to be a report on all found errors and maybe some
+advice for the project maintainers. This task requires experience in this
+field.
+
+***Requirements:*** Good C knowledge is essential.
+
+### Improve sltar
+
+[sltar](
http://s01.de/~gottox/index.cgi/proj_sltar) is a simplified tar
+implementation which lacks gzip and bzip2 integration. The task requires to
+extend sltar with these and to also write a test suite for it.
+
+***Requirements:*** Good C knowledge would be desirable.
+
+### Write a decent mailing list Web archive system
+
+All web archive systems such as hypermail, pipermail, etc. have plenty
+drawbacks and are quite out-dated. This task requires to write a completely new
+web mailing list archiving tool that follows the thread view concepts found in
+the mutt MUA and which is designed with low footprint and efficiency in mind.
+
+We expect this tool as a stand-alone Unix tool written in C or shell.
+
+***Requirements:*** Good C/Shell/HTML5 knowledge would be desirable.
+
+### Extend werc with a repository browser
+
+This task requires to extend [werc](
http://werc.cat-v.org) with a source
+browser for VCS repositories including support for
+[subversion](
http://subversion.tigris.org/),
+[mercurial](
http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/) and [git](
http://git-scm.com).
+
+***Requirements:*** Good knowledge of the [rc](
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rc) shell
+and the [Plan 9 userland for Unix](
http://plan9.us) is essential. Good C
+knowledge for the helper tools would be desirable.
Received on Wed Mar 18 2009 - 20:52:08 CET
