GSoC organization application opened; I'd like to apply for GnuCash

[Mitch Murphy]

Christian,

yes. i'm available to mentor a student in mac os x (cocoa) programming
in which i have 15+ years of experience, since before mac os x was
owned by apple in fact. for geek history buffs, remember NeXT...

i was already planning on starting a fresh mac os x interface for
gnucash (called GnuCashX.app maybe) in a few weeks. i could
supervise/mentor a student writing an ipad app, or to help me with my
native mac gui version.

Dr. Mitch Murphy
Sprott School of Business
Carleton University
Ottawa, Canada


On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Christian Stimming <stimming at tuhh.de> wrote:
> Dear developers,
>
> the 2011 Google Summer of Code (GSoC) programme is open for organizations to
> apply as mentoring organizations. We've participated in 2007 with four
> students, and we've tried to apply in 2010 as well but were not accepted.
>
> I want to give it a try this year again. This time, I want to spend
> considerable work on a good organization application, as outlined here [1]
> [2]. One of the more critical issue mentioned there is to present a good
> "Ideas Page" [3]. So far, we have the minor thoughts collected on our wiki
> page http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/GSoC2011 but I plan to heavily modify this
> page so that it results in a much better application.
>
> I also volunteer as organization's administrator who actually registers at
> google's website to submit our application. (@Derek: Can you be the backup
> admin?) I will also volunteer as a mentor for at least one student,
> potentially more.
>
> What do you think? Are there people around who can consider a mentor role
> for some student? I think additionally I'm going to ask some people here
> directly whether they can consider acting as a mentor.
>
> I think with our recent increase in development momentum we are now back
> again in a position where suitable tasks can be identified within gnucash.
> The students will need tasks that have a realistic chance to be completed
> within 12 weeks, yet have enough smaller steps of success so that the task
> will be fun for the student and the mentor. And eventually to our project
> itself. I believe gnucash now offers such possibilities much more than in
> the previous years, so I think GSoC this year is a good program for us.
>
> Questions? Comments?
>
> Regards,
>
> Christian
>
> [1] http://www.booki.cc/gsoc-mentoring/_v/1.0/org-application/
> [2]
> http://www.google-melange.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2011/faqs#mentor_app
> [3] http://www.booki.cc/gsoc-mentoring/_v/1.0/making-your-ideas-page/
>
>
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