GSoC 2009

Bart Cerneels bart.cerneels at kde.org
Wed Feb 11 15:04:19 CET 2009


On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Nikolaj Hald Nielsen
<nhnfreespirit at gmail.com> wrote:
> As you may have heard, GSoC is on again this year. Google will be
> sponsoring about 1000 students, compared to about 1125 last year, so
> it is slightly smaller this year, but not much.
>
> Considering how big a success GSoC was for us last year, I think it is
> very important that we start thinking about what kind of projects we
> would like to have people working on this year. Compared to last year,
> we have a big advantage in having a much more stable foundation for
> students to work on, so hopefully the students will be  able to get a
> lot done. Personally I can easily come up with a ton of service
> related projects that I would love for people to work on, and some of
> these would be really cool, but I have a feeling that there are more
> fundamental features that we would gain more from having students
> working on.
>
> So, I guess my point of this email is to get people to list stuff that
> Amarok 2 really _needs_ that could make for a good GSoC project.
>

Meta::Playlist synchronization to media devices and services and the
similar Collection syncing.
Part of this is also implementation of a feature of iTunes: autofill a
mediadevice. Apple uses it for the iPod Shuffle but we would also
target cellphones and generic usb mp3-players. This touches at least 3
major Amarok 2 framework, so an experienced programmer with prior
Amarok knowledge is preferred.
I'm willing (and able) to mentor this year.

Bart.

p.s. who will setup a nice wiki page to collect these proposals?


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