Hi,<br>Glad to see this post. I have been developing asterisk application for quite some time now and really interested to work on asterisk for gsoc 2009. Just looking for the right idea to apply! <br><br>Regards,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Russell Bryant <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:russell@digium.com">russell@digium.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Greetings,<br>
<br>
The Asterisk project participated in the Google Summer of Code program<br>
in 2005, but has not since then. I would like to apply again this year.<br>
I think it is an amazing opportunity to reach out to new developers<br>
and get some code written that we all want done, but have not had a<br>
chance to get to.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://code.google.com/soc/" target="_blank">http://code.google.com/soc/</a><br>
<br>
If we want to make this happen, we have a couple of things that we need<br>
to come up with as soon as possible. Mentoring organizations must<br>
complete their application for the program this week.<br>
<br>
1) We need to determine who is willing to serve as a mentor from the<br>
Asterisk project. Mentors will be paired up with a student and will<br>
provide guidance to help the student bring their project to completion.<br>
Without commitments from mentors, we can not participate in the program.<br>
<br>
Obviously, an appropriate pairing of a mentor to a student is important.<br>
It's acceptable to say, "I am willing to be a mentor, provided that it<br>
is for a student working on a project in my area of expertise."<br>
<br>
If you think you would be interested, please let me know! Feel free to<br>
respond on this list, or to me directly.<br>
<br>
2) We must build a suggested project list. When students apply for the<br>
program, they can submit a proposal for implementing one of our<br>
suggested projects, or another project of their choosing. Projects for<br>
this list should be appropriate in scope for a college student not yet<br>
familiar with the code base to implement in a Summer.<br>
<br>
I'm going to create a file in svn to maintain our project ideas list:<br>
<br>
- svn/asterisk/trunk/doc/google-soc2009-ideas.txt<br>
<br>
To kick of the list of ideas, here are a couple of high level thoughts:<br>
<br>
a) I think we could break up the "PineMango" project into multiple<br>
suggested projects.<br>
<br>
b) John Todd and others had some great ideas regarding security in<br>
Asterisk at the last developer conference that could be turned into<br>
suggested projects.<br>
<br>
If you have some thoughts about other projects to add to the list,<br>
again, please let me know, and I'll add them to our ideas list.<br>
<br>
Thanks!<br>
<br>
--<br>
Russell Bryant<br>
Digium, Inc. | Senior Software Engineer, Open Source Team Lead<br>
445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville, AL 35806 - USA<br>
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<br>
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