Google, Summer of Code, is a very wonderful idea for the Open Source Community:
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2014 No doubt many are scheming as to what would be good project ideas. Many really good ideas come from the rank and file of users. (Gmane.org is back online)..... Those (gifted? fledgling_gifted) often code good ideas directly. I think now is the time to have a robust (community) discussion on what the users of this list think would be good ideas for GSOC projects, which are Gentoo centric. My experiences with ALL current search engines, is there is quite a lot of low_quality results; which may be a direct result of the masses of those folks trying to learn/use unix/linux/gentoo by poorly formed google (et. al.) searches. Those low quality efforts statistically stack up against those few robustly accurate searches (from folks like the users of this list) so as to contaiminate search engines by the sheer number of poorly formed search engine efforts. I.E. it's not the fault of the search engine(?)..... So, Naturally, here is my idea. Collectively, if you look at this list archive and other such gentoo-centric resources, there is a wealth of good information that traverses our paths, and is then subsequently burried into the annals of lifeless data, only occasionally pinged by exasperating google searches, or gleaned from the multitude of records we each privately maintain. So, some sort of tool/app/parser that can glean information from the various gentoo-centric resources and store the data for later searching would be useful. Then a variety of experimental front ends could be tested (or developed anew) to query that data with relevant searches and very targeted searches. By limiting the focus to all things Gentoo, we could serve ourselves up crudely basic, but highly valuable information specific to the Gentoo-centric paramenters that one uses for this "in-house" database. This effort would mostly priortize the data returned in searches by some sort of *quality metric*. For example it could be simply that the most experienced dev would rate a "*100" (times 100) multiplier on the quality of their searches. Recognized power users might rate a "*2"5 rating. Ordinary folks a *1 rating on quality. This system would not even have to be open to the rank and file internet, except as a source of data returned to search engines like google, for example. Other distros could eventually do the same thing, and then Google could probe these databases, gaining specific user-community preferences of excellent quality (accuracy) search-data from folks steeped in all things Gentoo. Basically, a schemea is developed that allows the strongest of the Gentoo community to radically improve the quality of gentoo-specific searches, with very little efforts. For the devs and such, it could merely be a front-end to their own google searches. Folks would not have to use this front-end, if they do not want to. So, what is your idea for GSOC_2014? http://wiki.gentoo.org/index.php?title=Google_Summer_of_Code/2013/Ideas
