Re: GSoC 2018

[Vasantha Ganesh Kanniappan]

Hello Dashamir,
  All kinds of free/open source projects are accepted under GSoC. You will 
probably have to apply as an organization. The application opens on January 
4th. You will want to check (https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/) 
for applying.

I think Own-Mailbox is a good idea. I think you can apply those kinds of 
projects for GSoC. I did not check the other one.

I am in the final year of my engineering school and I'm in the middle of a 
couple of things and I won't be able to help you if you are looking for me to 
mentor.

Thanks for reaching out.
Vasanth.


9 Dec 2017, 20:52 by address@hidden:

> Hi,
>
> What kind of projects are accepted for the GSoC, under umbrella of GNU?
> What are the requirements? Can any free software project be accepted?
> I am asking because I would like to propose a couple of project ideas.
>
> For example Own-Mailbox (> https://www.own-mailbox.com/> ) is a nice project,
> which needs a few improvements but unfortunately has stopped the development.
> By proposing it as a GSoC project maybe we can give it a boost.
> I would be ready to be a mentor for this project (if no one else is 
> interested).
>
> Another project idea is DockerScripts: > https://github.com/docker-scripts
> This is a bash framework for building ready-to-run Docker containers for
> different applications. I have already built a bunch of them, like: bind9,
> moodle, squid, mariadb, etc.
> We can propose a project that consists in building containers for other
> useful applications.
>
> What is your opinion about these two project ideas? Are they suitable
> for GSoC?
>
> Regards,
> Dashamir
>
>