Google Summer of Code

Hi,

unfortunately there was no reply to my email from last
Thursday. Here is
another try for a GSoC idea. In addition to the editing
feature for
Structures_DataGrid that I wrote about last week, the
proposal now
includes also a new PEAR package Structures_DataSource which
is meant to
be used both by Structures_DataGrid itself and also by other
PEAR
packages.

Here is the proposal text:

<<<
PEAR::Structures_DataGrid is a toolkit to render out data
from various 
sources (like databases, CSV/XML file or RSS) into various
formats (like 
HTML, CSV, XML or Excel spreadsheets). Pagination und
sorting 
functionalites are also included.

An editing feature for the displayed records is currently
missing and 
should be implemented. This includes modifications to the
existing 
DataSource drivers to allow inserting and updating of
records.

To make the existing drivers of Structures_DataGrid more
flexible and to 
make them usable also by other PEAR packages, all DataSource
drivers 
should get subpackages of a new package
Structures_DataSource. These 
packages could be used by other PEAR packages for reading
and writing 
data from/into the various formats (like databases/SQL, CSV,
XML).

Possible mentor: Olivier Guilyardi, oliviergphp.net
>>>

Can anyone please advice about the next step? How can we get
this
proposal on www.php.net/ideas.php? More important: How can
we get this
proposal into the list on Google's SoC pages?

Regards,
Mark

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Mark Wiesemann wrote:

> Can anyone please advice about the next step? How can
we get this
> proposal on www.php.net/ideas.php? More important: How
can we get this
> proposal into the list on Google's SoC pages?

I do not think there is necessary a need to add it to the
ideas page. 
Once you can propose on March 14th, you can directly add it
to Google 
SoC's page using their sign up form.

Please mention your mentor in the proposal (best with PEAR
account url). 
The decision process for getting thins accepted is a bit
nebulous. Its 
basically upto Rasmus to assign people that can then rate
the proposals. 
In the end its Google though, that decides what gets in.

regards,
Lukas

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Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote:

> Mark Wiesemann wrote:
> 
>> Can anyone please advice about the next step? How
can we get this
>> proposal on www.php.net/ideas.php? More important:
How can we get this
>> proposal into the list on Google's SoC pages?
> 
> I do not think there is necessary a need to add it to
the ideas page. 
> Once you can propose on March 14th, you can directly
add it to Google 
> SoC's page using their sign up form.
> 
> Please mention your mentor in the proposal (best with
PEAR account url). 
> The decision process for getting thins accepted is a
bit nebulous. Its 
> basically upto Rasmus to assign people that can then
rate the proposals. 
> In the end its Google though, that decides what gets
in.

Thanks for explaination. My understanding was that students
can only
apply to proposals that were entered by a mentoring
organization (here:
PHP). But I guess that "ideas" means that these
ideas are really only
ideas and not a closed list.

Regards,
Mark

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Hi,

Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote:

> Please mention your mentor in the proposal (best with
PEAR account url).
> The decision process for getting thins accepted is a
bit nebulous. Its
> basically upto Rasmus to assign people that can then
rate the proposals.
> In the end its Google though, that decides what gets
in.

Okay, so.. to my understanding :
- PHP is the mentoring organization
- who are the mentors ? Can any PEAR member become mentor ?
Or are they
predetermined ?

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Olivier Guilyardi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote:
> 
>> Please mention your mentor in the proposal (best
with PEAR account url).
>> The decision process for getting thins accepted is
a bit nebulous. Its
>> basically upto Rasmus to assign people that can
then rate the proposals.
>> In the end its Google though, that decides what
gets in.
> 
> Okay, so.. to my understanding :
> - PHP is the mentoring organization

yes

> - who are the mentors ? Can any PEAR member become
mentor ? Or are they
> predetermined ?

talk to rasmus .. essentially php determines the mentors ..
php also 
rates the proposals .. however google makes the final
decision on what 
proposals to accept.

regards,
Lukas

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Actually this year, the person to talk to is Marcus (helly)
as he is
the GSoC administrator.

To answer quickly, there is no predefined mentors, and in
order to
have your proposal accepted by the PHP group, yes, you have
to post it
to ideas.php so that google can give grants to projects.
(more
proposal == more grants)

try that "helly [azat] php [dozot] net"

On 3/19/07, Lukas Kahwe Smith <mlspooteeweet.org> wrote:
> Olivier Guilyardi wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote:
> >
> >> Please mention your mentor in the proposal
(best with PEAR account url).
> >> The decision process for getting thins
accepted is a bit nebulous. Its
> >> basically upto Rasmus to assign people that
can then rate the proposals.
> >> In the end its Google though, that decides
what gets in.
> >
> > Okay, so.. to my understanding :
> > - PHP is the mentoring organization
>
> yes
>
> > - who are the mentors ? Can any PEAR member become
mentor ? Or are they
> > predetermined ?
>
> talk to rasmus .. essentially php determines the
mentors .. php also
> rates the proposals .. however google makes the final
decision on what
> proposals to accept.
>
> regards,
> Lukas
>
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