CiviCRM summer of code: are you interested? Should we apply?

[xavier]

So it's open again,

Are you a student looking to work on an open source project -and be paid-  that can make not for profit organisations more efficient?

Are you an active member  of our community willing to mentor a student?

We have until the 9th of  march to submit an application as a mentor and april 6 for students):
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2012/faqs#timeline

We always have plenty of ideas about a mobile apps, about improving the  module/plugin system, about usability, about multi-lingual, about... Definitely, we got more ideas that time to implement them

Are you a student that could qualify for the SoC and wants to work on civi? Are you a mentor that could  help this student?

Please reply on this thread, we need to gauge the level of interest and see if civi as a project should apply.

Last year we didn't, by lack of interest mostly. I personally would like it to happen, and would be willing to mentor if the project is one I know about/am interested enough.

Over to you...

X+

[Erik Hommel]

Good initiative Xavier and I agree it will only happen if we take up the glove. Do you have any experience in how much time investment is required for a mentor role?

[xavier]

I'm assuming the time depends on the complexity of the task and of how much hand holding the student needs.

Google gives 500$ to the project and 5000 to the student if I read it right, So let's assume a 10%. Plus a bunch of the community on IRC/forums/review.

X+

[donquixote]

if you guys suggest some interesting things to work on, i might think about it

[donquixote]

It could be that I get more into CiviCRM-related stuff in the next months, so this might be an interesting challenge. However, 9th march is quite soon, so this might be too early for me to make a commitment.

[Erik Hommel]

xavier, I think I would be willing to take up a mentor role, but I am not sure I know what I am doing..... Let's discuss next week.

donquixote:

if you guys suggest some interesting things to work on, i might think about it

that is not an open source community answer 

[petermcandrew]

Hey this looks really cool.  I'm taking a data visualisation module this semester at Uni, so woud be interested in looking at the way CiviCRM displays data and improving it. 

I have some nice ideas about graphical representation and looking at trends in data over time, financial information would be an obvious one but could also look at membership data.

Do you think this would be a good area for a Project?

I'll also let my Uni know as they are always on the lookout for projects to advertise, that fact that this is paid will also be very attractive to students!

[xavier]

Some ideas discussed in code sprints, forum...
http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRM/Ideas+list+for+google+summer+of+code+2012


- better data mining/data visualisation (overview of users involvements and activities, statistical analysis and forecast, 'activity wall', linked in like email updates...)
- interface with google apps/gmail (syncing contacts, save email as an activity...)
- interface with asterisk (phone)
- phone canvassing for volunteers (ala obama)
- more campaigning tools & visualisations (power maps)
- UI & usability (in place edit, grid, get rid of wizards, cleo & autocomplete...)
- Internationalisation v2 (supporting dozen of languages on the same install, fix the gettext penalty issue...)
- bot (xmmp) interface
- Offline mode: being able to use civi on the road (? using html5 localstorage)

from last year
http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,18844.msg78292.html#msg78292
and news from the 2008 summer
http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,2874.msg12468.html#msg12468

[mneimeyer]

I have a personal itch to scratch with the Google Apps interfacing/syncing... I'd love to do it under some sort of "official banner"

[xavier]

Hi,

Unfortunately, we haven't been selected by google for this summer.

However, if mneimeyer wants to dig into the sync with app, I'd be happy to launch the civi summer of code and help you with that.

ping me if interested, and on the even more good news, you'd  even have to wait until the summer to start!

X+