Re: [Maintainers] GSOC 2010

Anne NICOLAS wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Time has come to make some proposals for Gsoc 2010 (Google Summer of
> Code). Please feel free to propose here any idea or project that could
> be related to Mandriva Linux distribution (part of software included,
> build system, ...)

  Something that I have been working (with basically zero publicity),
and hopefully could match, or give visible results in a 3 months
timeframe is work on packaging www.salome-platform.org, and related
dependencies.
  But I both, don't have any contacts with upstream, neither think
would qualify to write a good argument as to why it is a cool thing
for Gsoc...
  Anyway, it is a huge codebase, summing everything and dependencies
only applicable to it, or that it is the upstream, e.g.
www.opencascade.org, should be at least around 300Mb tar.gz source
code...
  There is one mention of a python package that interfaces opencascade
in http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/being_packaged.en.html and there
is one reference to salome (but 801 days in preparation should mean
it is not likely to be done...)

  Anyway, there should be several other cooler, or more "visible"
projects.

> Cheers
>
> --
> Anne NICOLAS
> Director of Engineering
> Mandriva http://www.mandriva.com
> Mandrakesoft becomes Mandriva

Paulo