New Code Of Summer project
Hi, I just subbed. Before, I was only on boost-users, where there was a single mail about Code of Summer 2006. That mail said that if you had a new idea for a project, then you could add it to the wiki. I've added it to the wiki now, but I suppose it has to be approved too more or less. See http://www.crystalclearsoftware.com/cgi-bin/boost_wiki/wiki.pl?Google_Summer... -- Carlo Wood <carlo@alinoe.com>
Hmm - I couldn't resist adding my own idea for an add on to serialization. Robert Ramey Carlo Wood wrote:
Hi, I just subbed. Before, I was only on boost-users, where there was a single mail about Code of Summer 2006. That mail said that if you had a new idea for a project, then you could add it to the wiki.
I've added it to the wiki now, but I suppose it has to be approved too more or less.
See
http://www.crystalclearsoftware.com/cgi-bin/boost_wiki/wiki.pl?Google_Summer...
On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 16:21:40 -0700, Robert Ramey wrote
Hmm - I couldn't resist adding my own idea for an add on to serialization.
Robert Ramey
Actually, I think that serialization extensions would be great student projects. It's real, it's meaty and it's increadibly useful. In fact, I might suggest we go for JSON (http://www.json.org/) or YAML (http://www.yaml.org/) instead of another XML binding. JSON is getting really big for web applications using AJAX. Both JSON and YAML would have some slightly tricky design aspects as I think on the input side the archiver would need to know which types to use for the array and map-like data structures. I'll put these on the wiki if you don't object. Robert, could you please fill out this form: http://code.google.com/soc/mentor_step1.html That way we can add you to the mentor list. Great idea, and thanks for volunteering to mentor! Jeff
Jeff Garland wrote:
On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 16:21:40 -0700, Robert Ramey wrote
Hmm - I couldn't resist adding my own idea for an add on to serialization.
Robert Ramey
Actually, I think that serialization extensions would be great student projects. It's real, it's meaty and it's increadibly useful.
In fact, I might suggest we go for JSON (http://www.json.org/) or YAML (http://www.yaml.org/) instead of another XML binding.
FWIW I was thinking of leaving the same XML but just generating a parallel xml schema which could be used by an XML editor. From the posts on the property tree discussion I realize that there would be interest in this. On the other hand, it would require a lot of interest in becoming familiar with arcane details of current state of the art XML. I'm sure this is very hot topic and of much interest to some people but not to me. So, that's my true motivation. Robert Ramey
On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 20:21:45 +0200, Carlo Wood wrote
Hi, I just subbed. Before, I was only on boost-users, where there was a single mail about Code of Summer 2006. That mail said that if you had a new idea for a project, then you could add it to the wiki.
I've added it to the wiki now, but I suppose it has to be approved too more or less.
See
http://www.crystalclearsoftware.com/cgi-bin/boost_wiki/wiki.pl?Google_Summer... Hi Carlo - The project doesn't really need to be approved so much. The Wiki site is really just a list of project ideas. Students need to look at these ideas and put together a proposal based on the ideas to the mentors. Mentors will approve the projects. At some point Google will have the final descision on which projects they fund -- I'm still a little fuzzy myself on how that part of the process works... Jeff
On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 10:56:27AM -0700, Jeff Garland wrote:
http://www.crystalclearsoftware.com/cgi-bin/boost_wiki/wiki.pl?Google_Summer...
Hi Carlo -
The project doesn't really need to be approved so much. The Wiki site is really just a list of project ideas. Students need to look at these ideas and put together a proposal based on the ideas to the mentors. Mentors will approve the projects. At some point Google will have the final descision on which projects they fund -- I'm still a little fuzzy myself on how that part of the process works...
Jeff
Thanks for the reply Jeff. When I heard about CoS, it was almost May 1st already. I usually work alone (on open source projects) because can't seem to find experienced people with enough time to participate in my projects. The most logical thing to do would be to to be an organisation myself, but well - I'm not, I guess. I tried to pick something that I needed that would fit into Boost as well, so I could mentor under your umbrella, but I assumed that whatever project that was, it should be something acceptable as boost project (ie, make some chance to be included in boost in the future). For example, I'd also be happy to mentor a student working on libecc (some existing project of me, released under the QPL), but that simply is NOT a boost project... Now I have to find that url back where I can check my mentor status :/ -- Carlo Wood <carlo@alinoe.com>
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