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 FAQ page.
محتويات
Students
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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. ArabeyesTodo is an outdated but important "things to help with" list.
Selected ideas
Siraji Arabic OCR
- Info about Siraji: http://www.arabeyes.org/project.php?proj=Siragi
Fonts
Improve and create new Arabic Free fonts
libarabic
A libarary providing vario functions for use with Arabic supporting application: examples include:
- normalisation: e.g محمد , مُحَمّد
- morphology library (spell checkers, translation...)
- ....
ITL ports
ports to most other languages written on top of the current ITL written in C. A lot of people need ITL ports to most other languages like PHP, Perl, Java, TCL, Python
- more about the ITL: http://www.arabeyes.org/project.php?proj=ITL
Website revamp
The website (arabeyes.org) needs to be ported to Drupal and integrated with other services including:
- New theme
- Proper bidi support
- Project management pages
- Proper RSS feeds
- Translation statistics (the current implementation is buggy and inaccurate), include ability to:
- Download files
- Assign files (or 'take them') through multiple phases, e.g
translation, QA1, QA2...
- Qamoose integration
Another option might be adding gettext and RTL support to the current CMS and (as well as fixing styles and BIDI).
The final product will serve as a proof of concept bilingual bidirectional website.
Cygwin
Add Arabic support to Cygwin.
Bug squashing
There is a collection of showstopper bugs related to Arabic support in Gnome, Abiword, VIM and Firefox, the bugs have been open for 4 years because they are fairly involved and need some dedication. This project is an attempt to tackle these bugs. They are shown here:
Discussion
The Summer of Code thread resulted in many proposals: [1]
- Participating projects:
- Siragi (Tarik Fdil) [2]
- Proposals:
