GSoC 2009 Final evaluations due

2009-08-19 Thread Kai Blin
Hi folks, GSoC 2009 is wrapping up and the final evaluations are due. So far only one student and no mentors have filled out the surveys, so please take your time and take care of that soon. The results are due on Monday, but I'd prefer if I had some room to deal with any issues coming u

GSoC 2009 final week of coding started

2009-08-10 Thread Kai Blin
Hi GSoC students, hi mentors, just a little heads up that the final week of coding for GSoC started on Monday. The program timeline suggests that you start with writing documentation and tests now, but check with what your mentors think you should work on. Firm "pencils down" date is next Monda

Re: GSoC 2009

2009-03-28 Thread Ben Klein
2009/3/29 Tim Felgentreff : > > Owen Rudge wrote: >> If you have had exposure to Microsoft source code, then I believe I'm >> right in saying that you are not able to work on Wine, I'm afraid. > I have written to the Software Freedom Law Center about this, but the License > included with the Window

Re: GSoC 2009

2009-03-28 Thread Tim Felgentreff
Owen Rudge wrote: > If you have had exposure to Microsoft source code, then I believe I'm > right in saying that you are not able to work on Wine, I'm afraid. I have written to the Software Freedom Law Center about this, but the License included with the Windows Research Kernel is actually prett

Re: GSoC 2009

2009-03-28 Thread Owen Rudge
Hi Tim, I'd like to help out with wine during the summer of code. I have never done any dll development apart from a little messing with the windows research kernel, so I'd rather work on something else. If you have had exposure to Microsoft source code, then I believe I'm right in saying th

GSoC 2009

2009-03-28 Thread Tim Felgentreff
Hi, I'm currently an IT student in Germany in my 2nd year. I'd like to help out with wine during the summer of code. I have never done any dll development apart from a little messing with the windows research kernel, so I'd rather work on something else. I would love to work on control panel app

Re: GSoC 2009 Proposal - AppDB Assistant

2009-03-22 Thread André Hentschel
Ben Klein schrieb: Grabbing the version number of the application from the EXE metadata could prove to be unreliable. A lot of Windows apps don't include metadata, or include unusual values in the metadata. Then again, a lot of apps don't make it easy to see what the version you're using is in an

Re: GSoC 2009 Proposal - AppDB Assistant

2009-03-21 Thread Ben Klein
2009/3/22 Illya Klymov : > So, let's imagine we have a software which I call "AppDB Assistant" with > following functionality: There has been quite some activity on wine-devel recently regarding the AppDB, including a few ideas on how to automate uploading information or configuring Wine based on

GSoC 2009 Proposal - AppDB Assistant

2009-03-21 Thread Illya Klymov
Hi all! A new GSoC is coming, and i have an idea which can may (or may not) serve as a proposal for a Wine project. Let's speak about it not as an application (so I wouldn't tell a lot about myself) but as an idea for application. AppDB is an excellent service for helping users dealing with one

GStreamer plugin proposal for GSoC 2009

2009-03-20 Thread Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
Hi, I'm interested in working with you as a student to create a GStreamer plugin for Wine. First, a little background about me. I'm a 2nd year student from Bucharest, Romania; my major is Systems Engineering. Last summer I spent my time developing kmemtrace (a memory tracer for the Linux kernel)

Re: GSoC 2009 application sent

2009-03-13 Thread Kai Blin
On Thursday 12 March 2009 16:58:19 Owen Rudge wrote: Hi Owen, > What kind of would be involved in being a backup admin? I could perhaps > put myself forward for this - hopefully of course you won't be hit by > any buses, though. ;-) Well, basically you need to take over for the org admin if neede

Re: GSoC 2009 application sent

2009-03-12 Thread Owen Rudge
One more thing. Maarten doesn't have time to do this, so I would need someone as a backup admin to take over in case I'm hit by a bus or the like. I was acting as Maarten's backup last year, and I didn't have to do a thing. :) I'll also promise to be careful when crossing roads, it's just a safe

Re: GSoC 2009 application sent

2009-03-12 Thread Kai Blin
On Tuesday 10 March 2009 10:28:00 Kai Blin wrote: One more thing. Maarten doesn't have time to do this, so I would need someone as a backup admin to take over in case I'm hit by a bus or the like. I was acting as Maarten's backup last year, and I didn't have to do a thing. :) I'll also promise

GSoC 2009 application sent

2009-03-10 Thread Kai Blin
Hi folks, I've just sent our application for this year's Summer of Code. Could everyone please have another look at the proposed projects at http://wiki.winehq.org/SummerOfCode to see if all the proposals are still current. Feel free to discuss new project ideas on the mailing list as well. Che

Re: GSoC 2009 coming up

2009-02-17 Thread Owen Rudge
> My biggest motivation for requiring weekly status updates is that in the past > years I had a hard time following the GSoC projects I was not involved with > directly. At WorldForge, we required weekly reports to the mentor at first > and then decided that the weekly reports should go to the d

Re: GSoC 2009 coming up

2009-02-16 Thread Kai Blin
On Tuesday 17 February 2009 04:41:11 Brian Vincent wrote: > On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 2:39 AM, Kai Blin wrote: > > We should also investigate possible changes to the requirements (weekly > > reports to the mailing list come to mind). Maarten, any comments? > > My gut instinct was weekly reports woul

Re: GSoC 2009 coming up

2009-02-14 Thread nn
gt; Subject: GSoC 2009 coming up > To: "wine-devel@winehq.org" > Received: Saturday, 14 February, 2009, 8:39 PM > Hi folks, > > the organization application period for GSoC 2009 is > starting on March 9th, so > it's time to get our > http://wiki.winehq.or

GSoC 2009 coming up

2009-02-14 Thread Kai Blin
Hi folks, the organization application period for GSoC 2009 is starting on March 9th, so it's time to get our http://wiki.winehq.org/SummerOfCode wiki page in shape again. Detlef Riekenberg and Roderick Colenbrander made a good start, so if the rest of you could check and make sure tha