SoC2007 application
Google Summer of Code 2007 application
Organization
We are used to collaborate across timezones and cultures. For the Google Summer of Code we gave ourself a more formal project organization structure in addition to the two software project organizations hugin and panotools .
Administrators
First person, main coordinator
Oleksandr Moskalenko <moskalenko@gmail.com>
Second person, backing coordinator
Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine@gmail.com>
Mentors
First person
Andreas Vox <avox@gmail.com>
Second person
Peter Linnell <mrdocs@gmail.com>
Third person
Riku Leino <tsoots@gmail.com>
Fourth person
Oleksandr Moskalenko <moskalenko@gmail.com>
Fifth person
Jean Ghali <darth.scribius@gmail.com>
Students
First person
Short bio, graphics related events
Second person
Short bio, graphics related events
Third person
Short bio, graphics related events
Why are we applying for participation
What do we hope to gain by participating
Did your organization participate in GSoC 2005 or 2006
No
What license does your project use
GPL.
What is the URL for your ideas page
http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/SoC2007_ideas
What is the main development mailing list for your organization
http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/
What is the main IRC channel for your organization
IRC: #scribus at irc.freenode.net
Does your organization have an application template you would like to see students use? If so, please provide it now
- Name / University / current enrollment information.
- Biographical sketch.
- Did you ever code in C, C++ or Python? Please provide examples of code.
- Do you use Scribus? Please provide examples if you do.
- Do you make other use of Scribus than for laying out articles? please describe and show examples.
- Were you involved in Scribus development in the past? What were your contributions?
- Were you involved in other OpenSource development projects in the past? If yes, please tell us project, when and in what role were you involved?
- Why have you chosen your development idea and what do you expect from your implementation?
Who will be your backup organization administrator? Please include Google Account information
Who will your mentors be? Please include Google Account Information
Andreas Vox <avox@gmail.com>
Oleksandr Moskalenko <moskalenko@gmail.com>
Peter Linnell <name@gmail.com>
Craig Bradney <name@gmail.com>
Alexandre Prokoudine <name@gmail.com>
What criteria did you use to select these individuals as mentors? Please be as specific as possible
- familiarity and experience with the prepress technologies
- knowledge of the existing open source technologies applied to desktop publishing
- experience in mentoring junior coders, possibly from an academic environment
- in depth knowledge of user requirements
- ...