[sugar] Summer of Code update : applications so far, and thanks

[Charles Cossé]

Hello,
advance appologies if this is not a good place to post, but here goes:  I'm
a developer of some opensource education software (http://www.asymptopia.org)
and I would be interested to either mentor or otherwise  team-up with
someone more familiar with Sugar and the XO to port any of my apps to that
environment.  If you or someone you know is interested, please drop me a
line.  Thanks,

Charles Cosse


2008/4/5 Samuel Klein <sj at laptop.org>:

> Thank you to all who have helped out with our Summer of Code process so
> far.  We now have 30 mentors from the community, and 150 applications from
> 30 countries.  Students have put a good deal of thought into these
> applications, and I hope that most of them can lead to community discussion
> even if they aren't accepted as official summer projects.  The applications
> that stand out are from developers all over the world, with both programming
> and pedagogical experience.
>
> Applicants -- please take advantage of the longer application time this
> year to update your proposals based on feedback you have gotten from the
> community (you have been soliciting feedback, haven't you?)  You can enhance
> your applications by adding thoughts from your applications to related pages
> on the OLPC wiki.  And don't forget to review any feedback you have gotten
> through the gsoc site itself.
>
> Mentors -- please take an hour this weekend to review and adopt
> applications.  If you don't adopt any applications, you won't be able to
> mentor for us.
>
> Everyone -- if you've been meaning to send in that brilliant application
> but have been busy organizing tibetan protests or monitoring the zimbabwe
> elections, this is your last chance -- the final deadline is Monday.
>
>
> Finally, to stimulate discussion, below are a few applications that
> deserve more feedback and mentor attention.
>
> = Good applications that need review by a mentor with topic-specific
> expertise =
>
> * An XO Eclipse environment - Phan quoc huy
> * Handwriting recognition - Juliana Lipková (Thomas Breuel, call your
> office)
> * "your voice on XO" - Alex Escalona, on community-wide building of new
> Festival voices for TTS
>
>
> = Projects attracting more than one good application =
> (e.g., where there are detailed comparisons to be made)
>
> * Typing tutor - at least three good proposals
> * Flashcards - at least two good proposals
> * [[Elements]] extension - at least two good proposals
> * Artificial neural network simulations - at least one good proposal
> * A light email client - a few proposals that need clarification
> * Blogging platforms -   "      "      "
> * Finance activities  -  [[Finance One]], &c
>
>
> = Other applications of note =
>
> == Core system components ==
> * The publish/share button - Robson Mendonça, Eric Burns
> * Server interface design - Michał Ściubidło and others
> * LustreFS for XO (Distributed mesh filesystem) - Evelina Stepanova
> * Memory/disk tuning (schoolserver) - Waseem Shaukat
>
>  == Fundamental activities ==
> * [[Listen and Spell]] - Assim Deodia
> * Homework manager - Jason Tran
> * [[VideoEdit]] - Roberto Fagá
> * [[Coding Tutor]] - Rahul Bagaria
>
> == Learning games ==
> * Incredible machine - Alex Levenson, with a prototype
> * [[PlayGo]] extensions - Brandon Wilson
> * Water Game - Lin Zhou, for learning water sanitation and safety
> * Garden Game - Javier Trejo, for learning genetics; developing in both en
> and es.
>
>
> Cheers,  SJ
>
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