[asterisk-dev] Google Summer of Code 2009

[Dean Collins]

3rd party application license server.

 Seems no one at digium is capable of implementing it so why not give
some 18 year old kid the chance.

 

Regards,

Dean Collins
Cognation Inc
dean at cognation.net
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-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-dev-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-dev-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Russell
Bryant
Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 9:51 AM
To: Asterisk Developers Mailing List
Subject: [asterisk-dev] Google Summer of Code 2009

Greetings,

The Asterisk project participated in the Google Summer of Code program
in 2005, but has not since then.  I would like to apply again this year.
  I think it is an amazing opportunity to reach out to new developers
and get some code written that we all want done, but have not had a
chance to get to.

http://code.google.com/soc/

If we want to make this happen, we have a couple of things that we need
to come up with as soon as possible.  Mentoring organizations must 
complete their application for the program this week.

1) We need to determine who is willing to serve as a mentor from the
Asterisk project.  Mentors will be paired up with a student and will
provide guidance to help the student bring their project to completion.
  Without commitments from mentors, we can not participate in the
program.

Obviously, an appropriate pairing of a mentor to a student is important.
  It's acceptable to say, "I am willing to be a mentor, provided that it
is for a student working on a project in my area of expertise."

If you think you would be interested, please let me know!  Feel free to 
respond on this list, or to me directly.

2) We must build a suggested project list.  When students apply for the
program, they can submit a proposal for implementing one of our
suggested projects, or another project of their choosing.  Projects for
this list should be appropriate in scope for a college student not yet 
familiar with the code base to implement in a Summer.

I'm going to create a file in svn to maintain our project ideas list:

  - svn/asterisk/trunk/doc/google-soc2009-ideas.txt

To kick of the list of ideas, here are a couple of high level thoughts:

a) I think we could break up the "PineMango" project into multiple
suggested projects.

b) John Todd and others had some great ideas regarding security in
Asterisk at the last developer conference that could be turned into
suggested projects.

If you have some thoughts about other projects to add to the list, 
again, please let me know, and I'll add them to our ideas list.

Thanks!

-- 
Russell Bryant
Digium, Inc. | Senior Software Engineer, Open Source Team Lead
445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville, AL 35806 - USA
Check us out at: www.digium.com & www.asterisk.org


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