Re: GNU in GSOC 2015 - Application sent

[Fred Kiefer]

Things are getting a bit worse again. I applied for the mentor role
again about a week ago, but didn't get a reply. Even not after writing
to Jose personally. If you want you may look into this, but it may
already be to late now, as student selection should be happening this week.

Fred

Am 27.02.2015 um 23:30 schrieb Ivan Vučica:
> Yeah, Jose's the reply arrived 20ish minutes after I complained to
> address@hidden :-)
> 
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 3:53 PM, Fred Kiefer <address@hidden
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
> 
>     Don't worry this time he seams to have received your mail, at least
>     GNUstep is now listed on the GNU GSoC
>     page http://www.gnu.org/software/soc-projects/ideas-2015.html
>     Last year we were totally ignored, I wasn't even accepted as a
>     mentor, but this year looks different.
> 
>     Fred
> 
>     On the road
> 
>     Am 27.02.2015 um 15:53 schrieb Ivan Vučica <address@hidden
>     <mailto:address@hidden>>:
> 
>>     I am not getting any replies -- neither on the list nor when I
>>     reach out to Jose directly. I'll probably try sending a plaintext
>>     email next time I'm on a computer, but there is a chance it won't
>>     get through either.
>>
>>
>>     On Mon, Feb 23, 2015, 22:03 Ivan Vučica <address@hidden
>>     <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>>
>>         [bcc address@hidden
>>
>>         On behalf of GNUstep project, I'm sending the same ideas from
>>         last year -- sadly, they never ended up on the ideas page for
>>         2014.
>>
>>
>>         - URL to your project's homepage.
>>         http://www.gnustep.org/
>>         - A paragraph describing your project.
>>         GNUstep is a console, desktop and web application development
>>         framework for development using Objective-C. It is based on
>>         OPENSTEP specification, and is today interested in achieving
>>         compatibility with Apple's Cocoa set of frameworks. GNUstep
>>         consists of gnustep-base (classes for strings, arrays,
>>         dictionaries, timers, sockets, et al), gnustep-gui (classes
>>         for windows, buttons, textboxes, et al), gnustep-make (a build
>>         system) as well as an assortment of development utilities and
>>         bonus libraries.
>>
>>         ------------
>>
>>         - Title for the idea.
>>         Improve Core Animation implementation and integrate it into AppKit
>>         - A paragraph describing the idea.
>>         During summer of code 2012, Core Animation has been
>>         implemented for GNUstep. During summer of code 2013, Core
>>         Graphics backend has been implemented for GNUstep using our
>>         library Opal. In order to improve compatibility with Cocoa, as
>>         well as make it easier to implement modern-looking
>>         applications for GNUstep, a student should integrate CALayer
>>         with NSView and improve Core Animation where required.
>>
>>         This would also make it possible to use Chameleon, an
>>         implementation of UIKit, with GNUstep.
>>         - Contact point for students interested in the idea (usually
>>         development mailing list).
>>         address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>
>>         address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>
>>
>>
>>
>>         - Title for the idea.
>>         Improve Core Animation implementation and implement UIKit
>>         - A paragraph describing the idea.
>>         During summer of code 2012, Core Animation has been
>>         implemented for GNUstep. During summer of code 2013, Core
>>         Graphics backend has been implemented for GNUstep using our
>>         library Opal. In order to attract more developers to free
>>         platforms, as well as expand availability of touch-enabled
>>         applications, a student should create a UIKit-compatible user
>>         interface library and improve Core Animation implementation
>>         where necessary.
>>
>>         - Contact point for students interested in the idea (usually
>>         development mailing list).
>>         address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>
>>         address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>
>>
>>         ------------------
>>
>>         I hope to be able to provide advice to students for these two
>>         ideas, either as a formal mentor or informally. If it's not
>>         going to be me, we'll find another contributor to take over
>>         the role.
>>
>>         If appropriate, feel free to note that we are definitely open
>>         to other ideas from students. These happen to be the ones that
>>         I am personally interested in and is not an exhaustive list of
>>         projects that the GNUstep project could make use of.
>>         On Mon 23 Feb 2015 at 14:43 Julien Brun
>>         <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>             Julien Brun
>>             *Web Developer*
>>
>>             http://julienbrun.co.uk/  tel: +447445282158
>>             <tel:447445282158>
>>
>>             On 21 February 2015 at 13:42, Jose E. Marchesi
>>             <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>                     Thanks for taking the time to be the Org Admin for
>>                 GNU this year too.
>>                     I've attached a diff file for the ideas page for
>>                 GNU Wget.
>>
>>                 Thanks.  Your ideas are now on ideas-2015.html.
>>                 Thank you!