[fpc-devel] Google summer of code

[Marc Weustink]

Vincent Snijders wrote:
> Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho schreef:
>> Here is my initial proposal:
>>
>> ------------------------
>>
>> Dear Sir or Madam,
>>
>> With this email we would like to apply as mentoring organization for
>> your "Summer of Code" program. We hope that with your funding we can
>> improve the project.
>>
>> FPC/Lazarus is the joined effort of two development teams to bring the
>> power of RAD tools using a compiled language to all interesting
>> platforms. Currently we support several architectures (x86,
>> Amd64/x86_64, PowerPC, Sparc and ARM), and several operating systems
>> (Windows, Windows CE, Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, Mac OS classic, DOS,
>> Win32, OS/2, Netware, MorphOS and others). We, the maintainers of the
>> FreePascal and Lazarus projects would like to apply as a single
>> organization (called FPC/Lazarus) since our projects are very closely
>> related.
>>
>> FreePascal (http://www.freepascal.org/) develops a free multiplatform
>> Pascal compiler and the runtime environment. The FreePascal project is
>> already a very long-running OSS project, it has been developed in 1993
>> with a first release in 1996 (http://tinyurl.com/edolq) and since then
>> has evolved in a rather large project, already supporting a lot of
>> platforms on several different processor families. The FreePascal team
>> would like to take this opportunity to extend the compiler and improve
>> its quality even more. A collection of ideas for students working on
>> the
>> FreePascal can be found at
>> http://wiki.freepascal.org/index.php/Open_tasks . Of course we are
>> willing to provide more exact requirements for each particular task if
>> required.
>>
>> Lazarus (http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org) has been founded in 1999
>> with the goal of developing a RAD IDE based on FPC. It provides a
>> modern class library and an IDE for the development of GUI programs,
>> and is compatible with Borland Delphi VCL, which allows complex GUI
>> software created on Delphi to be ported to many platforms using
>> Lazarus. We hope that this project will allow us to improve our
>> project, add new features, and make it an even better cross-platform
>> development environment. There is a collection of ideas to be
>> implemented here: http://wiki.freepascal.org/Feature_Ideas
>>
>> Both the compiler and IDE are provided under the GPL, while the
>> runtime libraries are provided under the LGPL with the explicit
>> permission for static linking.
>>
>> Several of the developers have experience with teaching students or
>> work as professional software engineers, so we think that the mentored
>> students will be able to learn a lot about software development
>> besides the experience they can get when participating the Summer of
>> Code.
>>
>> We applied last year to participade on summer of code.
> 
> We applied last year to participate on summer of code.
> 
> 
>>
>> Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho will be the organization administrator.
>> He's e-mail is felipemonteiro.carvalho at gmail
>>
>> Our mailling lists can be found at:
>> http://www.freepascal.org/maillist.var and
>> http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=StaticPage&file=index&sURL=maill
>>
>>
>> Our main IRC channels are #fpc and #lazarus-ide , both on FreeNode
>> server.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho in behalf of the FPC/Lazarus development
>> teams
>>
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>>
>> I'm not sure how to answer the following topics. I will just make a
>> guess of how to answer them here:
>>
>>> 11. Who will be your backup organization administrator? Please
>> include Google Account information.
>>
>> I would say that probably Florian could be the backup admin
>>
>> Just what is a Google Account information?????
> 
> I think a gmail email address.
> 
>>
>>> 12. Who will your mentors be? Please include Google Account Information.
>>
>> I here thereby nominate: Mattias, Daniel Mationi, Peter, Mark, Vincent =)
> 
> Daniel Mantione

MarC

> 
>>
>> Later we can change this anyway.
>>
>> Other volunteers?
>>
>>> 13. What criteria did you use to select these individuals as
>> mentors? Please be as specific as possible.
>>
>> All the selected individuals have greatly contributed to our projects.
>> For a short example, Peter wrote a new Internal Linker for FPC,
>> Mattias leads the gtk development on Lazarus and Mark the Windows
>> development.
> 
> I think both Mattias and Mark work in much larger parts of Lazarus. I
> would describe them as two people who have contributed much in almost
> all parts of the project (IDE, debugger, designer, codetools, LCL,
> different widgetsets).
> 
> Vincent
> 
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