Potential projects for GSoC

Here are the projects from Ideas in preparation for a final selection. Please click on project title to come to the project's own page, where you can find its description and soon more. All Mentors registered on this site have edit access to project pages.

Core
Supporting the Coral a scripting syntax for smalltalk
Cross-Platform Namespaces
Improving the Compiler Frameworks
OpenCL support for Kedama
Packaging Squeak as a DLL
Progress Towards a Cross-Dialect Smalltalk FFI
Refactored Hashed Collection Library
Tools
Web application to create custom Smalltalk images and Virtual Machines
Fast binary format for objects and packages
Extensible but fast code and text editor
Smalltalk-to-Javascript IDE
Generate UML diagrams from Smalltalk code for Pharo
GLORP & Magritte integration/refactoring
Build a Pango based Text Editor
Visualization of profiling information in Pharo and Squeak
User Interface
Cairo support based on ROME
FreeCAD/Cobalt: 3D CAD with Motion Simulation
Squeakland education project
Interoperability
Porting Monticello to Smalltalk/X
Newspeak/Smalltalk Import/Export Tool
Pharo/Squeak integration with git/mercurial
SmallFinger - framework for accessing fingerprint devices
Web
OpenSSL Smalltalk wrapper
Google APIs Smalltalk wrapper
Brainstorming portal for better community decision process
Tutorial application for Suixo
Add functionality to Suixo
HTTP messaging library
Extensible parsing and persistency for Pier
Swazoo web server/Grease improvements
Smalltalk application demo
Seaside tools
Framework for building semantic networks
Operating System and hardware
PharoNOS
Memory Manager for SqueakNOS
Concurrency Architectures in Smalltalk

Core

Supporting the Coral a scripting syntax for smalltalk

Mentor:	Luc Fabresse
Second mentor:
Level:	Intermediate

Invited students: Rodrigo Bonifácio, Viktor Kerkez

Students interested: Viktor Kerkez(very), Rodrigo Bonifácio

Cross-Platform Namespaces

Mentor:	James Foster
Second mentor:	Göran Krampe, John O'Keefe
Level:	Advanced

Accepted student: Germán Leiva

Invited students: Germán Leiva, Mikaël Smaha

Students interested: Germán Leiva(very), Mikaël Smaha(very), Flávio Cruz, Viktor Kerkez

Improving the Compiler Frameworks

Mentor:	Marcus Denker
Second mentor:	Jorge Ressia
Level:	Advanced

Invited students: Flávio Cruz, Simona Poilinca

Students interested: Flávio Cruz(very), Nilesh Maaheshwari, Simona Poilinca, Mikaël Smaha

OpenCL support for Kedama

Mentor:	Joshua Gargus
Second mentor:	Yoshiki Ohshima
Level:	Intermediate

Invited students:

Students interested:

Packaging Squeak as a DLL

Mentor:	Eliot Miranda
Second mentor:	Beepeng Ang
Level:	Advanced

Invited students: Om Prakash

Students interested: Om Prakash(very)

Progress Towards a Cross-Dialect Smalltalk FFI

Mentor:	Eliot Miranda
Second mentor:	John McIntosh
Level:	Advanced

Accepted student: Dmitry Matveev

Invited students: Dmitry Matveev, Reinout Stevens

Students interested: Dmitry Matveev(very), Reinout Stevens(very)

Refactored Hashed Collection Library

Mentor:	Andres Valloud
Second mentor:	Martin McClure
Level:	Intermediate

Invited students: Germán Leiva, Nicolas Scarcella

Students interested: Nicolas Scarcella(very), Germán Leiva, Carla Griggio(lightly)

Tools

Web application to create custom Smalltalk images and Virtual Machines

Mentor:	Dale Henrichs
Second mentor:
Level:	Intermediate

Invited students: Nilesh Maaheshwari, Ilya Zadorozhny

Students interested: Nizar SEHLI(very)(no biography!!!), Ilya Zadorozhny(very), Nilesh Maaheshwari

Fast binary format for objects and packages

Mentor:	Igor Stasenko
Second mentor:	Hilaire Fernandes, Hilaire Fernandes
Level:	Intermediate

Invited students: Tristan Bourgois

Students interested: Tristan Bourgois(very)

Extensible but fast code and text editor

Mentor:	Lukas Renggli
Second mentor:	Tudor Girba
Level:	Advanced

Invited students:

Students interested: Mikaël Smaha

Smalltalk-to-Javascript IDE

Mentor:	Panu Viljamaa
Second mentor:
Level:	Advanced

Invited students:

Students interested: Armando Perico(very), Carla Griggio, Joel Kitching, Mirko Kiefer(lightly)

Generate UML diagrams from Smalltalk code for Pharo

Mentor:	Stéphane Ducasse
Second mentor:	Geert Claes
Level:	Intermediate

Accepted student: Carla Griggio

Invited students: Carla Griggio, Reinout Stevens

Students interested: Carla Griggio(very), Nilesh Maaheshwari, Mikaël Smaha, Reinout Stevens

GLORP & Magritte integration/refactoring

Mentor:	Yuriy Mironenko
Second mentor:	Diogenes Moreira
Level:	Intermediate

Invited students: Angelina Chekanova, Mirko Kiefer

Students interested: Angelina Chekanova(very), Mirko Kiefer(very), Ilona Kuzmickaja, Dmitry Matveev, Alfredo Taboada, Germán Leiva(lightly)

Build a Pango based Text Editor

Mentor:	Travis Griggs
Second mentor:	Diogenes Moreira
Level:	Intermediate

Invited students: Armando Perico

Students interested: Hashir Ali(very), Armando Perico

Visualization of profiling information in Pharo and Squeak

Mentor:	Alexandre Bergel
Second mentor:
Level:	Intermediate

Accepted student: Mariano Coca

Invited students: Felipe Bañados, Mariano Coca

Students interested: Felipe Bañados(very), Mariano Coca(very)

User Interface

Cairo support based on ROME

Mentor:	Alain Plantec
Second mentor:	Hilaire Fernandes
Level:	Intermediate

Invited students: Angelina Chekanova, Andraž Krevh

Students interested: Angelina Chekanova, Andraž Krevh

FreeCAD/Cobalt: 3D CAD with Motion Simulation

Mentor:	Aik-Siong Koh
Second mentor:	Phua Khai Fong
Level:	Intermediate

Accepted student: Tan Boon Keat

Invited students: Tan Boon Keat

Students interested: Tan Boon Keat(very), Farzan Pouranpir(no biography!!!)

Squeakland education project

Mentor:	Randall Caton
Second mentor:	Markus Gaelli
Level:	Intermediate

Accepted student: Ricardo Moran

Invited students: Ricardo Moran

Students interested: Ricardo Moran(very), Nicolas Scarcella, Angelina Chekanova(lightly)

Interoperability

Porting Monticello to Smalltalk/X

Mentor:	Jan Vraný
Second mentor:	Claus Gittinger
Level:	Intermediate

Invited students: Petr Spacek

Students interested: Petr Spacek

Newspeak/Smalltalk Import/Export Tool

Mentor:	Gilad Bracha
Second mentor:
Level:	Intermediate

Invited students: Ryan Macnak

Students interested: Ryan Macnak

Pharo/Squeak integration with git/mercurial

Mentor:	George Herolyants
Second mentor:	Göran Krampe
Level:	Intermediate

Invited students: Viktor Kerkez, Joel Kitching

Students interested: Joel Kitching(very), Ian Corne, Dmitry Matveev, Mikaël Smaha

SmallFinger - framework for accessing fingerprint devices

Mentor:	Davorin Ruševljan
Second mentor:
Level:	Beginner

Invited students: Domagoj Perisic

Students interested: Domagoj Perisic(very)

Web

OpenSSL Smalltalk wrapper

Mentor:	Donald MacQueen
Second mentor:	Brian OConnell
Level:	Intermediate

Invited students: Mohammed Bolbol, Sundeep Mishra

Students interested: Mohammed Bolbol(very), Sundeep Mishra(very), Nicolas Scarcella

Google APIs Smalltalk wrapper

Mentor:	Francois Stephany
Second mentor:	Ernest Micklei
Level:	Beginner

Invited students: Ian Corne, Mark Pruneri

Students interested: Hashir Ali(very), Denis Filipič(very), Prateek Gupta(very), Ankit Jain(very), Anand Pandurangi(very), Mark Pruneri(very), Mohammed Bolbol, Ian Corne

Brainstorming portal for better community decision process

Mentor:	Janko Mivšek
Second mentor:
Level:	Beginner

Invited students: Abhinav Jain, Dmitry Matveev

Students interested: Abhinav Jain(very), Srikanth Janardhan(very), Ankit Jain, Dmitry Matveev(lightly)

Tutorial application for Suixo

Mentor:	Arthur Schijndel, van
Second mentor:	Diego Lont
Level:	Intermediate

Invited students:

Students interested: Stipe Grgić(very), Andraž Krevh(very)

Add functionality to Suixo

Mentor:	Stephan Eggermont
Second mentor:	Diego Lont
Level:	Intermediate

Invited students: Den Bardadym

Students interested: Den Bardadym(very), Prateek Gupta

HTTP messaging library

Mentor:	Janko Mivšek
Second mentor:	Julian Fitzell
Level:	Intermediate

Invited students: Ian Corne, Lakshan Perera

Students interested: Ian Corne(very), Lakshan Perera(very), Ilya Zadorozhny(very), Prateek Gupta, Reinout Stevens

Extensible parsing and persistency for Pier

Mentor:	Tudor Girba
Second mentor:	Lukas Renggli
Level:	Intermediate

Invited students: Andrei Chis

Students interested: Andrei Chis(very), Simona Poilinca(very)

Swazoo web server/Grease improvements

Mentor:	Paolo Bonzini
Second mentor:	Julian Fitzell, John O'Keefe, Nicolas Petton
Level:	Beginner

Invited students:

Students interested:

Smalltalk application demo

Mentor:	Stan Shepherd
Second mentor:
Level:	Intermediate

Invited students:

Students interested: Ilona Kuzmickaja(very), Denis Filipič, Ankit Jain, Hashir Ali(lightly)

Seaside tools

Mentor:	Julian Fitzell
Second mentor:	Gerhard Obermann
Level:	Intermediate

Invited students: Den Bardadym, Armando Perico

Students interested: Armando Perico(very), Den Bardadym(lightly)

Framework for building semantic networks

Mentor:	Dennis Schetinin
Second mentor:
Level:	Intermediate

Invited students: Anastasiya Ivanova

Students interested: Anastasiya Ivanova(very)

Operating System and hardware

PharoNOS

Mentor:	Gerardo Richarte
Second mentor:	Hernan Wilkinson
Level:	Intermediate

Invited students: Guido Chari, Javier Pimás

Students interested: Guido Chari(very), Flávio Cruz, Mirko Kiefer, Javier Pimás

Memory Manager for SqueakNOS

Mentor:	Hernan Wilkinson
Second mentor:	Carlos Ferro, Gerardo Richarte
Level:	Advanced

Invited students: Guido Chari, Javier Pimás

Students interested: Javier Pimás(very), Guido Chari, Flávio Cruz

Concurrency Architectures in Smalltalk

Mentor:	Andreas Tönne
Second mentor:	Dennis Schetinin
Level:	Advanced

Invited students: Rodrigo Bonifácio, Svatopluk Šperka

Students interested: Rodrigo Bonifácio(very), Chandra Sekhar(very), Svatopluk Šperka(very), Mariano Coca, Viktor Kerkez, Flávio Cruz(lightly)

Updated: 8.4.2010