As Giuseppe and Kaj have blogged about, the student proposal period for the Google Summer of Code is underway from today through March 31st.
The new MySQL Forge has a wiki page with suggested MySQL-related GSoC projects that a number of MySQL engineers and community team members have proposed. The projects include C/C++ projects in the MySQL server as well as other projects for the non C gurus among you, including some projects in Lua for the MySQL Proxy.
PHP Hacker? Know MySQL? Hack on the MySQL Forge for Google Summer of Code
If you love PHP and MySQL, there are other ways you can participate in the summer of code as a MySQL project submitter. I will be open-sourcing the new MySQl Forge code base shortly (only technical issues remain...). I would love to see some interest from the PHP and MySQL community in enhancing the new MySQL Forge with new functionality. Therefore, I have created a section on the Forge wiki with a list of proposed projects for GSoC students. Here is the list so far, but feel free to propose anything else you'd like to see implemented on the Forge:
- Develop a "karma system" for Forge users that is integrated with the MySQL forums, mailing list activity, Forge wiki activity, and code snippet creation
- Enhance the user interface so that Forge users can "watch" a project, code snippet, worklog task, etc. Preferably a nice AJAX widget similar to what the rating button currently is
- Develop an RSS and Atom feed system for the Forge "new items" (tasks, projects, code snippets, people?)
- Integrate PlanetMySQL with the MySQL Forge People section
- The user "blogs on PlanetMySQL", for instance...
- Integrate OhLoh.net statistics into the Projects area
- Expand test-suite for MySQL Forge and better integration with PHPUnit3
Also feel free to email me at my first name at mysql dot com if you wish to chat or brainstorm ideas on PHP and MySQL GSoC projects.
For those unaware of what the Google Summer of Code is, here is an FAQ
