I'm stumped with all your great ideas, and right now I don't know if all of them can be done by only one person in 3 months. In this case, I think it's best we ask the mentor for this project, which I believe is Stefan. I'll ask him to join the discussion if I see him on IRC. 8 days from now, the student application period begins, and until then I want to be sure what's expected of me, so I can write a good proposal. And by the way, is it ok if I ask you for suggestions writing it?
I would strongly encourage asking for suggestions and asking for reviews of draft proposals. Hopefully, this will give you a better idea of what you should be doing and give the potential mentors an idea of what you want to be doing. I would start by writing down a list of ideas that have been discussed so far (multiple parsing backends, interesting parsing techniqes, supported APIs, etc.). This will help you get a feel for the breadth of possible projects. That should help you (and us!) figure out the best approach for a 3 month project. Andrew Sutton andrew.n.sutton@gmail.com