Google Summer of Code 2007

Arabeyes is interested in participating the in the 2007 edition of Google's Summer of Code. This event encourages students to get involved in open source coding projects by awarding successful participants with cash prizes. For more information read the [ http://code.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?topic=10442 FAQ page].

Mentoring

(Mentoring application deadline: March 12)

The Arabeyes projects needs mentors for project ideas. Mentors have the task of assisting the applicants and to be the project contact points. They review and choose proposals and help participants in their process. Project maintainers are usually the best candidates for this task. The Advice for GSoC Mentors Page compiles advice for mentors. If you think your project needs assistance, do please apply as a mentor. [1] is an outdated but important "things to help with".

Discussion

The Summer of Code thread resulted in many proposals: [2]

• Participating projects:
  • Siragi (Tarik Fdil) [3]

• Not participating projects:
  • Bayani [4]
  • Katoob [5]

• Proposals:
  • RTL in the Maemo platform [6]
  • libquran for embedded systems [7]
  • RTL in Irssi, zsh [8]
  • Ayaspell, Arabic spellchecking
  • Improving Arabeyes fonts [9]
  • Arabic-script printing [10]
  • BiCon [11]

Mentors

Please cite your name and project here.

Ideas