Re: [Tcl-soc2008] [TCLCORE] Tcl GSoC 2009 - missing parts

[Donal K. F. <don...@ma...>]

Jeff Hobbs wrote:
> Tomasz Kosiak wrote:
>> 1. Who will you be able to submit Tcl GSoC 2009 application and act
>> as an admin?
> 
> I will not have the time to both admin and mentor, and I would prefer to 
> mentor.

I definitely won't admin, and probably won't formally mentor. Alas, I
have a very heavy workload with paywork. But I'm happy to offer advice
and perform reviews (code and docs) by email, provided I'm not on
vacation at the time, of course.

>> One *very *important question is if we can/will act as umbrella
>> organization for Tcl/Tk + AOLserver/Naviserver/OpenACS/XOTcl/aMSN
>> which gave us 5 more slots last year.
> 
> I feel that it doesn't hurt to represent the umbrella, but perhaps we 
> can assist in more clearly breaking out components by sub-area. 
> Labelling things AREA::... as ideas.

The 2009 project ideas page on the wiki really needs a cleanup. I've
been enriching it with links and fixing the obviously broken bits (like
suggestions running together!) but there's a lot still to do.

>> 2. Who is *really* willing to be a mentor this summer (if we got selected)
> 
> Given the available opportunities and the open scope of ideas, I would 
> be willing to mentor in the Tk area.  Specifically more photo 
> manipulation, megawidgets and anything in tklib are right up my alley.
> 
> In particular, a megawidget system based on TclOO with the features of 
> snidgets would be a big win for the core and I believe a easier to 
> medium level difficulty project.

I'm also willing to help out with these things. Indeed, I've already had
someone asking about the megawidget idea; he was seeking clarification
about the scope and whether it involved C programming (my response was
"hopefully not").

Donal.