[asterisk-dev] GSoC 2010 - Calling for Project Ideas and Mentors

[Chris Mylonas]

Hi Russell & Dev list,

I'm interested in mentoring a csta project, because I know that stuff pretty
well.  I'm not intimately familiar with asterisk at a developer level
though.

I'd like to know what options to consider.

Straight off the bat I can say that I'm a little concerned with:

a) signing a developer waiver because I don't see any benefit
b) using the asterisk-forge, the ToS state that I must give up my rights to
Digium - is this software licensing as well for code that sits inside the
svn, or ONLY what is posted on the forge website?
c)  re: licensing - if a csta library could be created, what are the options
re: licensing, and packaging  - asterisk vs asterisk-addons  - opencsta
redistribution commitments/rights
d)  finally, which license - opencsta is licensed LGPL written in java -
simply because I can always do something with it in a proprietary sense.

These have been questions that have been on the backburner for a couple of
months.  SoC seems like a good reason to bring them up.
Hope you don't mind.

Cheers
Chris



On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Russell Bryant <russell at digium.com> wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> The period for organizations to apply for participation in the Google
> Summer of Code program for 2010 is next week.  That means that by the
> end of next week, we need to put together a couple of things:
>
> 1) I need to know who would be willing to mentor a student.  This is not
> an extremely large commitment.  You are there to provide some technical
> guidance, as well as general guidance for how to interact with the
> Asterisk development community.  If you have questions about being a
> mentor, there are a number of people on this list that have done this
> before and can provide feedback.  Feel free to also contact me directly
> on this topic.
>
> 2) We need a suggested projects list.  Historically, I think our project
> ideas have been a bit too big.  We need to aim for coming up with
> projects more concretely achievable in a summer for a college student
> not necessarily familiar with the Asterisk code base.  I think coming up
> with ideas for specific tests to implement is a really good area to
> think about.  Please post any project ideas that you have so that we can
> discuss them and get them on the list.
>
> I will be gathering project ideas and saving them here:
>
> http://svn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/team/group/gsoc-2010/ideas.txt
>
> Thanks,
>
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