LakTEK A Sri Lankan, A Rubyist and A Web Dude

Early Bird view to Google Summer of Code Project Ideas

As most of you may aware (or not) Google Summer of Code for 2007 has been announced. This year I’m eager to apply for a project, eventhough I’m not sure whetehr I will get accepted. Anyway project ideas of accepted mentoring organizations will be released only on 14th March and student application period will be ended on 24th of March. Since I (and many others too) haven’t been actively involve in projects with these organizations, I thought better to begin preparations early and select a good project. Most of the organizations have included a wiki page of potential projects.

I thought of sharing the list of project ideas I compiled. Note that final project ideas of these organizations may differ and also not all of these organizations may get accepted to GSoC .

• Drupal
• JNode
• iFOSSF
• Handhelds.org
• Inkscape
• Wikimedia
• GIMP
• Open Watcom
• AbiWord
• KDE
  
• FreeBSD
• Fedora
• squeak
• BOOST
• django
• GNOME
• Joomla
• Moodle
• Plone

UPDATE : Lot of new project ideas, which I missed have been added in the comments section. Check them as well.

Thanks a ton man …
was looking for something like this …

OpenOffice.org GSoC 2007 suggestions are at
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2007

Thanks, Stefan

Ideas for the Haiku Operating System project are at:

http://haiku-os.org/community/gsoc2007/ideas

Would be nice if you could add this.

Thanks!

The Gallery 2007 GSoC ideas page is available at http://gallery.menalto.com/summer_of_code/2007/ideas

How about Ruby and Ruby related projects?

Yeah, I’m also looking for RoR related projects and still didn’t find any.

Please update this post if you find any. Thanks.

For XWiki:

http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GoogleSummerOfCode/

Here’s a the ideas list for ggi :
http://www.ggi-project.org/soc.html

GGZ also mentors this year:
http://dev.ggzgamingzone.org/soc/

Adium’s list of project ideas has also been updated, available at
http://trac.adiumx.com/wiki/SummerOfCode

For pjsip project:

http://www.pjsip.org/trac/wiki/GoogleSummerofCode2007

And yes, there are Ruby opportunities there!

Here is the Mono Project Ideas :
http://www.mono-project.com/StudentProjects

We added a special Summer of Code section to the Inferno system’s project page at

http://code.google.com/p/inferno-os/wiki/Project_Suggestions

I have posted up project ideas for the SilverStripe open source CMS and web application framework.

Tasks involve architecting and programming (Object Oriented PHP5, MySQL, XHTML, CSS, Javascript), with a strong focus on usability, innovation and fun!

http://www.silverstripe.com/google-summer-of-code-2007-project-ideas/

World wind center ideas :
http://www.worldwindcentral.com/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2007_Ideas

Jabber Foundation
http://wiki.jabber.org/index.php/Summer_of_Code_2007

Daisy Foundation
http://cocoondev.org/daisyscratchpad/g4/291.html

Dojo
http://dojo.jot.com/WikiHome/SummerOfCode/SummerOfCode

SoC ideas for the Open Source Cluster Application Resources (OSCAR) project are posted here:
http://oscar.openclustergroup.org/index.php?q=GSoC2007

This page coordinates the Google “Summer of Code” projects mentored by Cultura Libre.
http://wiki.freeculture.org/SoC

MySQL: http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/SummerOfCode

BRL-CAD’s project ideas for Google Summer of Code:
http://ftp.brlcad.org/rfp/