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7 days to deadline for ideas of this year GSoC! Please think about what would be a nice project for students to work and that way join our community. And yes, students are welcome to propose projects too! Let we "recycle" past project ideas too! Please review them and propose those still valuable. Or change the proposal to suit better. Here they are: http://gsoc2010.esug.org/ideas . Let me and Carla post GSoC related stuff only on Pharo, Squeak and VWNC mailing lists while for other let someone forward those mails there please. It is just too hard to post on 10+ mailing lists, you know... Past GSoC mentors please join the debate on special Smalltalk GSoC mentors list: http://groups.google.com/group/smalltalk-gsoc-mentors. If you want to be mentor this year you are welcome to join that list too. Best regards Janko S, Janko Mivšek piše: > Dear Smalltalkers, > > Let we apply this year again for the Google Summer of Code, which as you > know is a Google's stipendium program for students to encourage them > working on open-source projects [1]. > > Ok, our first step as community is to collect ideas for possible > projects and to apply to the GSoC as an organization. Deadline is next > Friday, so please hurry on with ideas. Just put them as reply to this > email or to admins directly and we will put them on our website [2]. > > Your project idea should be written as answers to these questions: > > Name > Level (Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced) > Possible mentor > Possible second mentor > > Description > Technical Details > Benefits to the Student > Benefits to the Community > > > See how such ideas look like in past: http://gsoc2010.esug.org/ideas. > > Waiting for your ideas > Carla and Janko, your GSoC Admin team > > [1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2012 > [2] http://gsoc2012.esug.org > -- Janko Mivšek Smalltalk GSoC Admin Team http://gsoc2012.esug.org |
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To dream is easy:
-HDF5 (http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/) support like PyTables or h5py for Python -Information Retrieval/Full Text Search package like Lucene (http://lucene.apache.org/) -A binding to R or SAS or SPSS -Better or more semantic web support (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Services_Resource_Framework#Implementations) -An omnibrowser for OWL ontologies -CSS template system -Support of a Distributed Hash Table protocol like Pastry (http://www.freepastry.org/) -Workflow system with designer and plug-in architecture (see http://www.taverna.org.uk/) -Big data CSV parser plugin -Plugin for fast approximate search in strings cheers, 2012/3/2 Janko Mivšek <[hidden email]> Hi everyone, -- Hernán Morales Information Technology Manager, Institute of Veterinary Genetics. National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET). La Plata (1900), Buenos Aires, Argentina. Telephone: +54 (0221) 421-1799. Internal: 422 Fax: 425-7980 or 421-1799. |
Re: [Pharo-project] Project ideas for GSoC, 7 days left!
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Port OpenQwaq video to Etoys
Karl On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 9:17 PM, Hernán Morales Durand <[hidden email]> wrote: > To dream is easy: > > -HDF5 (http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/) support like PyTables or h5py for > Python > -Information Retrieval/Full Text Search package like Lucene > (http://lucene.apache.org/) > -A binding to R or SAS or SPSS > -Better or more semantic web support (see > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Services_Resource_Framework#Implementations) > -An omnibrowser for OWL ontologies > -CSS template system > -Support of a Distributed Hash Table protocol like Pastry > (http://www.freepastry.org/) > -Workflow system with designer and plug-in architecture (see > http://www.taverna.org.uk/) > -Big data CSV parser plugin > -Plugin for fast approximate search in strings > > cheers, > > > > 2012/3/2 Janko Mivšek <[hidden email]> >> >> Hi everyone, >> >> 7 days to deadline for ideas of this year GSoC! Please think about what >> would be a nice project for students to work and that way join our >> community. And yes, students are welcome to propose projects too! >> >> Let we "recycle" past project ideas too! Please review them and propose >> those still valuable. Or change the proposal to suit better. Here they >> are: http://gsoc2010.esug.org/ideas . >> >> Let me and Carla post GSoC related stuff only on Pharo, Squeak and VWNC >> mailing lists while for other let someone forward those mails there >> please. It is just too hard to post on 10+ mailing lists, you know... >> >> Past GSoC mentors please join the debate on special Smalltalk GSoC >> mentors list: http://groups.google.com/group/smalltalk-gsoc-mentors. If >> you want to be mentor this year you are welcome to join that list too. >> >> Best regards >> Janko >> >> S, Janko Mivšek piše: >> > Dear Smalltalkers, >> > >> > Let we apply this year again for the Google Summer of Code, which as you >> > know is a Google's stipendium program for students to encourage them >> > working on open-source projects [1]. >> > >> > Ok, our first step as community is to collect ideas for possible >> > projects and to apply to the GSoC as an organization. Deadline is next >> > Friday, so please hurry on with ideas. Just put them as reply to this >> > email or to admins directly and we will put them on our website [2]. >> > >> > Your project idea should be written as answers to these questions: >> > >> > Name >> > Level (Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced) >> > Possible mentor >> > Possible second mentor >> > >> > Description >> > Technical Details >> > Benefits to the Student >> > Benefits to the Community >> > >> > >> > See how such ideas look like in past: http://gsoc2010.esug.org/ideas. >> > >> > Waiting for your ideas >> > Carla and Janko, your GSoC Admin team >> > >> > [1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2012 >> > [2] http://gsoc2012.esug.org >> > >> >> -- >> Janko Mivšek >> Smalltalk GSoC Admin Team >> http://gsoc2012.esug.org >> > > > -- > Hernán Morales > Information Technology Manager, > Institute of Veterinary Genetics. > National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET). > La Plata (1900), Buenos Aires, Argentina. > Telephone: +54 (0221) 421-1799. > Internal: 422 > Fax: 425-7980 or 421-1799. > > > > |
Re: [Pharo-project] Project ideas for GSoC, 7 days left!
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Make web browser plugin of Squeak work better on all platforms.
Get Etoys image to run on CogVM. Karl On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 9:36 PM, karl ramberg <[hidden email]> wrote: > Port OpenQwaq video to Etoys > > Karl > > > On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 9:17 PM, Hernán Morales Durand > <[hidden email]> wrote: >> To dream is easy: >> >> -HDF5 (http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/) support like PyTables or h5py for >> Python >> -Information Retrieval/Full Text Search package like Lucene >> (http://lucene.apache.org/) >> -A binding to R or SAS or SPSS >> -Better or more semantic web support (see >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Services_Resource_Framework#Implementations) >> -An omnibrowser for OWL ontologies >> -CSS template system >> -Support of a Distributed Hash Table protocol like Pastry >> (http://www.freepastry.org/) >> -Workflow system with designer and plug-in architecture (see >> http://www.taverna.org.uk/) >> -Big data CSV parser plugin >> -Plugin for fast approximate search in strings >> >> cheers, >> >> >> >> 2012/3/2 Janko Mivšek <[hidden email]> >>> >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> 7 days to deadline for ideas of this year GSoC! Please think about what >>> would be a nice project for students to work and that way join our >>> community. And yes, students are welcome to propose projects too! >>> >>> Let we "recycle" past project ideas too! Please review them and propose >>> those still valuable. Or change the proposal to suit better. Here they >>> are: http://gsoc2010.esug.org/ideas . >>> >>> Let me and Carla post GSoC related stuff only on Pharo, Squeak and VWNC >>> mailing lists while for other let someone forward those mails there >>> please. It is just too hard to post on 10+ mailing lists, you know... >>> >>> Past GSoC mentors please join the debate on special Smalltalk GSoC >>> mentors list: http://groups.google.com/group/smalltalk-gsoc-mentors. If >>> you want to be mentor this year you are welcome to join that list too. >>> >>> Best regards >>> Janko >>> >>> S, Janko Mivšek piše: >>> > Dear Smalltalkers, >>> > >>> > Let we apply this year again for the Google Summer of Code, which as you >>> > know is a Google's stipendium program for students to encourage them >>> > working on open-source projects [1]. >>> > >>> > Ok, our first step as community is to collect ideas for possible >>> > projects and to apply to the GSoC as an organization. Deadline is next >>> > Friday, so please hurry on with ideas. Just put them as reply to this >>> > email or to admins directly and we will put them on our website [2]. >>> > >>> > Your project idea should be written as answers to these questions: >>> > >>> > Name >>> > Level (Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced) >>> > Possible mentor >>> > Possible second mentor >>> > >>> > Description >>> > Technical Details >>> > Benefits to the Student >>> > Benefits to the Community >>> > >>> > >>> > See how such ideas look like in past: http://gsoc2010.esug.org/ideas. >>> > >>> > Waiting for your ideas >>> > Carla and Janko, your GSoC Admin team >>> > >>> > [1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2012 >>> > [2] http://gsoc2012.esug.org >>> > >>> >>> -- >>> Janko Mivšek >>> Smalltalk GSoC Admin Team >>> http://gsoc2012.esug.org >>> >> >> >> -- >> Hernán Morales >> Information Technology Manager, >> Institute of Veterinary Genetics. >> National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET). >> La Plata (1900), Buenos Aires, Argentina. >> Telephone: +54 (0221) 421-1799. >> Internal: 422 >> Fax: 425-7980 or 421-1799. >> >> >> >> |
Re: [Pharo-project] Project ideas for GSoC, 7 days left!
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On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 12:38 PM, karl ramberg <[hidden email]> wrote: Make web browser plugin of Squeak work better on all platforms. Karl, these are great suggestions.
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Re: Project ideas for GSoC, 7 days left!
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A project that I think should garner support would be SqueakNOS. Investigate getting around the problem kf snapshotting the image by doing away with the idea of snapshotting to a file. Files require a file system. It needs an object memory system with an immutable, protected kernel memory and a separate "user memory". Spoon looks very promising as a way to accomplish this.
Perhaps work on the multi-threaded cog VM would get some support. Having another virtual machinist in the family couldn't hurt... Just some suggestions from an I treated observer On Friday, March 2, 2012, Eliot Miranda <[hidden email]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 12:38 PM, karl ramberg <[hidden email]> wrote: >> >> Make web browser plugin of Squeak work better on all platforms. >> Get Etoys image to run on CogVM. > > Karl, these are great suggestions. > > > Karl > > > On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 9:36 PM, karl ramberg <[hidden email]> wrote: >> Port OpenQwaq video to Etoys >> >> Karl >> >> >> On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 9:17 PM, Hernán Morales Durand >> <[hidden email]> wrote: >>> To dream is easy: >>> >>> -HDF5 (http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/) support like PyTables or h5py for >>> Python >>> -Information Retrieval/Full Text Search package like Lucene >>> (http://lucene.apache.org/) >>> -A binding to R or SAS or SPSS >>> -Better or more semantic web support (see >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Services_Resource_Framework#Implementations) >>> -An omnibrowser for OWL ontologies >>> -CSS template system >>> -Support of a Distributed Hash Table protocol like Pastry >>> (http://www.freepastry.org/) >>> -Workflow system with designer and plug-in architecture (see >>> http://www.taverna.org.uk/) >>> -Big data CSV parser plugin >>> -Plugin for fast approximate search in strings >>> >>> cheers, >>> >>> >>> >>> 2012/3/2 Janko Mivšek <[hidden email]> >>>> >>>> Hi everyone, >>>> >>>> 7 days to deadline for ideas of this year GSoC! Please think about what >>>> would be a nice project for students to work and that way join our >>>> community. And yes, students are welcome to propose projects too! >>>> >>>> Let we "recycle" past project ideas too! Please review them and propose >>>> those still valuable. Or change the proposal to suit better. Here they >>>> are: http://gsoc2010.esug.org/ideas . >>>> >>>> Let me and Carla post GSoC related stuff only on Pharo, Squeak and VWNC >>>> mailing lists while for other let someone forward those mails there >>>> please. It is just too hard to post on 10+ mailing lists, you know... >>>> >>>> Past GSoC mentors please join the debate on special Smalltalk GSoC >>>> mentors list: http://groups.google.com/group/smalltalk-gsoc-mentors. If >>>> you want to be mentor this year you are welcome to join that list too. >>>> >>>> Best regards >>>> Janko >>>> >>>> S, Janko Mivšek piše: >>>> > Dear Smalltalkers, >>>> > >>>> > Let we apply this year again for the Google Summer of Code, which as you >>>> > know is a Google's stipendium program for students to encourage them >>>> > working on open-source projects [1]. >>>> > >>>> > Ok, our first step as community is to collect ideas for possible >>>> > projects and to apply to the GSoC as an organization. Deadline is next >>>> > Friday, so please hurry on with ideas. Just put them as reply to this >>>> > email or to admins directly and we will put them on our website [2]. >>>> > >>>> > Your project idea should be written as answers to these questions: >>>> > >>>> > Name >>>> > Level (Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced) >>>> > Possible mentor >>>> > Possible second mentor >>>> > >>>> > Description >>>> > Technical Details >>>> > Benefits to the Student >>>> > Benefits to the Community >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > See how such ideas look like in past: http://gsoc2010.esug.org/ideas. >>>> > >>>> > Waiting for your ideas >>>> > Carla and Janko, your GSoC Admin team >>>> > >>>> > [1] > > > -- > best, > Eliot > |
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Name: Search Indexing of Smalltalk image
Level: Intermediate Possible mentor: Aik-Siong Koh Possible second mentor: Ian Chai Description All Smalltalk development environments can now search for implementors, senders or strings using brute force. The results are usually just listed alphabetically. This project will use search technology to index and page rank all the packages, classes, methods and comments in the image. Search results will be returned quickly and ranked intelligently. It will be a Search Engine for Smalltalk in Smalltalk. A search browser will be created to accept search strings and return columns of hits for packages, classes, methods and comments listed according to their page ranks. Time permitting, an autocompletion capability will be implemented to suggest relevant methods for code writing. The code will be made portable to all Smalltalk dialects. Technical Details The Anatomy of a Search Engine http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html Benefits to the Student The student will learn the important areas of search technology and object oriented programming. The student will experience creating something that is immediately useful to all Smalltalk programmers. Benefits to the Community Fast and intelligent search of Smalltalk code will help the community advance Smalltalk development even faster. Additional programming capabilities can be built on top of the search capabillities. |
Re: [Pharo-project] Project ideas for GSoC, 7 days left!
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Hernán and Karl, can you or someone else develop your ideas a bit
furher, by answering the questions: description technical details benefif for student benefit for community while potential mentor can be choosen later Thanks! Janko Dne 02. 03. 2012 21:38, piše karl ramberg: > Make web browser plugin of Squeak work better on all platforms. > Get Etoys image to run on CogVM. > > Karl > > > On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 9:36 PM, karl ramberg <[hidden email]> wrote: >> Port OpenQwaq video to Etoys >> >> Karl >> >> >> On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 9:17 PM, Hernán Morales Durand >> <[hidden email]> wrote: >>> To dream is easy: >>> >>> -HDF5 (http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/) support like PyTables or h5py for >>> Python >>> -Information Retrieval/Full Text Search package like Lucene >>> (http://lucene.apache.org/) >>> -A binding to R or SAS or SPSS >>> -Better or more semantic web support (see >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Services_Resource_Framework#Implementations) >>> -An omnibrowser for OWL ontologies >>> -CSS template system >>> -Support of a Distributed Hash Table protocol like Pastry >>> (http://www.freepastry.org/) >>> -Workflow system with designer and plug-in architecture (see >>> http://www.taverna.org.uk/) >>> -Big data CSV parser plugin >>> -Plugin for fast approximate search in strings >>> >>> cheers, >>> >>> >>> >>> 2012/3/2 Janko Mivšek <[hidden email]> >>>> >>>> Hi everyone, >>>> >>>> 7 days to deadline for ideas of this year GSoC! Please think about what >>>> would be a nice project for students to work and that way join our >>>> community. And yes, students are welcome to propose projects too! >>>> >>>> Let we "recycle" past project ideas too! Please review them and propose >>>> those still valuable. Or change the proposal to suit better. Here they >>>> are: http://gsoc2010.esug.org/ideas . >>>> >>>> Let me and Carla post GSoC related stuff only on Pharo, Squeak and VWNC >>>> mailing lists while for other let someone forward those mails there >>>> please. It is just too hard to post on 10+ mailing lists, you know... >>>> >>>> Past GSoC mentors please join the debate on special Smalltalk GSoC >>>> mentors list: http://groups.google.com/group/smalltalk-gsoc-mentors. If >>>> you want to be mentor this year you are welcome to join that list too. >>>> >>>> Best regards >>>> Janko >>>> >>>> S, Janko Mivšek piše: >>>>> Dear Smalltalkers, >>>>> >>>>> Let we apply this year again for the Google Summer of Code, which as you >>>>> know is a Google's stipendium program for students to encourage them >>>>> working on open-source projects [1]. >>>>> >>>>> Ok, our first step as community is to collect ideas for possible >>>>> projects and to apply to the GSoC as an organization. Deadline is next >>>>> Friday, so please hurry on with ideas. Just put them as reply to this >>>>> email or to admins directly and we will put them on our website [2]. >>>>> >>>>> Your project idea should be written as answers to these questions: >>>>> >>>>> Name >>>>> Level (Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced) >>>>> Possible mentor >>>>> Possible second mentor >>>>> >>>>> Description >>>>> Technical Details >>>>> Benefits to the Student >>>>> Benefits to the Community >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> See how such ideas look like in past: http://gsoc2010.esug.org/ideas. >>>>> >>>>> Waiting for your ideas >>>>> Carla and Janko, your GSoC Admin team >>>>> >>>>> [1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2012 >>>>> [2] http://gsoc2012.esug.org >>>>> >>> -- >>> Hernán Morales >>> Information Technology Manager, >>> Institute of Veterinary Genetics. >>> National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET). >>> La Plata (1900), Buenos Aires, Argentina. >>> Telephone: +54 (0221) 421-1799. >>> Internal: 422 >>> Fax: 425-7980 or 421-1799. >>> >>> >>> >>> > > -- Janko Mivšek Smalltalk GSoC Admin Team http://gsoc2012.esug.org |
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Hi guys,
Friday is approaching fast and we have so far only 4 complete ideas on this year ideas page: http://gsoc2012.esug.org/ideas Please think harder, two years ago we had 36 ideas and all evolved later to projects, with mentor, second mentor, student etc. So, are we without ideas two years later? :) Best regards Janko Dne 02. 03. 2012 15:05, piše Janko Mivšek: > Hi everyone, > > 7 days to deadline for ideas of this year GSoC! Please think about what > would be a nice project for students to work and that way join our > community. And yes, students are welcome to propose projects too! > > Let we "recycle" past project ideas too! Please review them and propose > those still valuable. Or change the proposal to suit better. Here they > are: http://gsoc2010.esug.org/ideas . > > Let me and Carla post GSoC related stuff only on Pharo, Squeak and VWNC > mailing lists while for other let someone forward those mails there > please. It is just too hard to post on 10+ mailing lists, you know... > > Past GSoC mentors please join the debate on special Smalltalk GSoC > mentors list: http://groups.google.com/group/smalltalk-gsoc-mentors. If > you want to be mentor this year you are welcome to join that list too. > > Best regards > Janko > > S, Janko Mivšek piše: >> Dear Smalltalkers, >> >> Let we apply this year again for the Google Summer of Code, which as you >> know is a Google's stipendium program for students to encourage them >> working on open-source projects [1]. >> >> Ok, our first step as community is to collect ideas for possible >> projects and to apply to the GSoC as an organization. Deadline is next >> Friday, so please hurry on with ideas. Just put them as reply to this >> email or to admins directly and we will put them on our website [2]. >> >> Your project idea should be written as answers to these questions: >> >> Name >> Level (Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced) >> Possible mentor >> Possible second mentor >> >> Description >> Technical Details >> Benefits to the Student >> Benefits to the Community >> >> >> See how such ideas look like in past: http://gsoc2010.esug.org/ideas. >> >> Waiting for your ideas >> Carla and Janko, your GSoC Admin team >> >> [1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2012 >> [2] http://gsoc2012.esug.org >> > -- Janko Mivšek Aida/Web Smalltalk Web Application Server http://www.aidaweb.si |
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Technical details: OpenQwaq support many video playback formats. Etoys support a few quite odd formats and this hinders use of video with Etoys. Formats such as H.264 is standard on the web and Etoys could playback and post on for example YouTube.
Benefit for student: Work with underbelly of both the VM and image to support good state of the art video playback / recording. Benefit for community: We would be able to use and make videos from Etoys. Many sites have great educational videos posted. Being able to annotate and interact with this would make a great tool for students and teachers Description: Port
Make web browser plugin of Squeak work better on all platforms.
Technical details: The web browser plugin for Squeak was made quite a long time ago and there are small issues with most platforms. Benefif for student: Learn the platform specific code for many platforms and their implementation. Benefit for community: Better support for Etoys on all platforms. Description: Port
Get Etoys image to run on CogVM. Technical details: Image side changes to make Etoys image run on the CogVM. Possibly some plugin support work on Cog also needed. Benefif for student: Work with a high performance JIT and implement support for this in the Etoys system. Benefit for community: A faster execution would be nice for Etoys as it often is run on smaller systems and a few more cycles would make GUI response a nicer experience. Karl 2012/3/5 Janko Mivšek <[hidden email]> Hernán and Karl, can you or someone else develop your ideas a bit |
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Name: Big data CSV parser plugin
Level: Intermediate Possible mentor: ? Possible second mentor: ? Description With the advent of inexpensive DNA microarray technology, big data is now available to many small and medium laboratories which performs statistical analysis based in microarray experiments. Most of the times the data produced by genotyping services is delivered in CSV format, as it represents a currently cross-platform "standard" which is easily readable, and still used in hundreds of business applications. In Smalltalk we have several CSV parsers but the performance is far from being competitive with libraries implemented in other languages. The goal of this project is to measure time execution and build a plugin to access CSV data in a fast and competitive way. Technical Details Currently exists several open source projects which implements C functions to access CSV data. The challenge of this project is to learn tools like VMMaker and Interpreter Plugin classes to develop a Squeak/Pharo internal or external plugin. Benefits to the Student The student will learn about interfacing highly efficient libraries to Smalltalk. Benefits to the Community The Smalltalk community will gain a winning library for a extremely common task like dealing with CSV files. Name: HDF5 support (http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/) Level: Intermediate Possible mentor: ? Possible second mentor: ? Description Hierarchical Data File 5 is a new (1998) format capable of storing large and complex amount of data, and it is used in Gravitational and Plasma Physics, Earth Science research, Weather Services, Software Engineering, Biomedical Informatics, etc. As new data adquisition hardware is providing bigger datasets (for example, sequencing data) the need to query and access metadata, partial and full datasets in an efficient way (parallel I/O) is more important. In this format data are stored in a hierarchical format similar to the UNIX file system, and the data model supports a rich variety of data types and data space organizations. Currently exists APIs and wrappers for Java, .NET, Python, C and FORTRAN. The goal of this project is to build a wrapper to enable to access HDF5 data in Smalltalk. This binding could open Smalltalk to a lot of science domains and users in which currently pure object technology is unknown. Technical Details The student will need to learn details about the HDF format as data sets and composite data types. Benefits to the Student The student would learn about efficient data systems, implement an API, and experiment with large scientific data in Smalltalk. Benefits to the Community The Smalltalk community will attract more users by keeping in touch with big data analytics, by providing access to an efficient data format used currently in research and business. 2012/3/5 Janko Mivšek <[hidden email]> Hernán and Karl, can you or someone else develop your ideas a bit |
Re: [Pharo-project] Project ideas for GSoC, 7 days left!
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Name: Integrate Gezira into Squeak/Pharo
Level: Intermediate Possible mentor: ? Possible second mentor: ? Description Squeak started life as a highly graphical environment for exploring and experimenting with computation. Part of it's appeal was that it was completely understandable from the ground up, including how every pixel on screen gets there. However, Squeak's graphical facilities have fallen behind the current state of the art, and are still largely focused fundamentally on manipulating bitmaps. Gezira offers a state of the art vector graphics framework that is at the same time compact and understandable. It is being actively developed by the people at VPRI and already has a smalltalk implementation courtesy of Bert Freudenberg which is available from the VPRI website. Technical Details Take Bert's work done for VPRI and integrate it into the current Squeak VM. On the image side, integrate Gezira into Squeak's canvas hierarchy and, time permitting, begin working to retrofit current morphic rendering to use Gezira. Work to speed up Gezira in smalltalk could also be a part of the project. Benefits to the Student The student will learn about vector graphics, as well as the Squeak VM. It will also provide valuable experience learning how VPRI is going about creating software that is both functional and compact at the same time. Benefits to the Community Squeak and Pharo will gain a modern, understandable vector graphics framework allowing for graphical capabilities that are of higher quality than what is currently available. |
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