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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
>

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Re: Project ideas for GSoC, 7 days left!

Karsten Kusche
How about improving Magritte to use Grease, so that it is not that dependent on Pharo?

Karsten

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Am Freitag, 2. März 2012 um 15:05 schrieb 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

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
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


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Re: [Pharo-project] Project ideas for GSoC, 7 days left!

hernanmd
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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,

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
>

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Janko Mivšek
Smalltalk GSoC Admin Team
http://gsoc2012.esug.org



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Re: [squeak-dev] Re: [Pharo-project] Project ideas for GSoC, 7 days left!

Karl Ramberg
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.
>
>
>
>

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Re: [squeak-dev] Re: [Pharo-project] Project ideas for GSoC, 7 days left!

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
>>> >
>>>
>>> --
>>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>>

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Re: [squeak-dev] Re: [Pharo-project] Project ideas for GSoC, 7 days left!

Eliot Miranda-2


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] 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: <a href="tel:%2B54%20%280221%29%20421-1799" value="+542214211799">+54 (0221) 421-1799.
>> Internal: 422
>> Fax: 425-7980 or 421-1799.
>>
>>
>>
>>




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Re: Project ideas for GSoC, 7 days left!

ccrraaiigg
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Hi Janko--

1.

Name                       minimal virtual machine
Level                      intermediate
Possible mentor            Craig Latta
Possible second mentor     Eliot Miranda (I'm volunteering him :)

Description                Create a minimal Squeak virtual machine, to
                           accompany the minimal object memory provided
                           by the Spoon project
                           (http://netjam.org/spoon)
Technical Details
Benefits to the Student    The student will learn the organization of
                           the Squeak virtual machine.
Benefits to the Community  The community will benefit from an improved
                           virtual machine organization, making it
                           easier to learn and easier for newcomers to
                           contribute.

2.

Name                       object memory modularization
Level                      intermediate
Possible mentor            Craig Latta
Possible second mentor     (volunteers sought)

Description                Modularize the Squeak object memory into
                           Naiad modules (see http://netjam.org/spoon).
Technical Details          Organize the classes and methods of Squeak
                           into composable modules using Naiad, Spoon's
                           history system. Develop tools to aid in this
                           process.
Benefits to the Student    The student will learn how to create
                           deployable Squeak applications, by helping
                           to invent the process.
Benefits to the Community  The community will benefit from improved
                           techniques for collaboration and deployment.


     thanks!

-C

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Re: [squeak-dev] Re: [Pharo-project] Project ideas for GSoC, 7 days left!

Janko Mivšek
In reply to this post by Karl Ramberg
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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>

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Re: GSoC ideas, 5 days to go!

Janko Mivšek
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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
>>
>

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Re: [squeak-dev] Re: [Pharo-project] Project ideas for GSoC, 7 days left!

Karl Ramberg
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Description: Port OpenQwaq video to Etoys 
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
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: <a href="tel:%2B54%20%280221%29%20421-1799" value="+542214211799">+54 (0221) 421-1799.
>>> Internal: 422
>>> Fax: 425-7980 or 421-1799.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>

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Re: [Pharo-project] [squeak-dev] Re: Project ideas for GSoC, 7 days left!

Carla F. Griggio
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Hernán,
With CSS template system you mean, for example, describing the style of morphic objects with CSS syntax?

Cheers,
Carla.

On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Janko Mivšek <[hidden email]> wrote:
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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>

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Re: [Pharo-project] GSoC ideas, 5 days to go!

Carla F. Griggio
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Hi everybody!

Please remember that project ideas don't have to be projects to do from scratch. They could be new features or improvements for projects that are already being used or developed.

Cheers!
Carla.

On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Janko Mivšek <[hidden email]> wrote:
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
>>
>

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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
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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>

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Re: [squeak-dev] Re: [Pharo-project] Project ideas for GSoC, 7 days left!

Travis Griggs-4

On Mar 7, 2012, at 9:25 AM, Hernán Morales Durand wrote:

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.

I *believe* Karl Breith of Areva/Framatome has written an HDF5 interface for VisualWorks. Not sure if he's in a position to share the fruits of his labors or not.

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