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| = Python Implementation of the Data Access Protocol = | This page is for students and mentors for the [http://code.google.com/soc/ Google "Summer of Code"] projects involving Python and mentored by the Python Software Foundation (PSF). |
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| (Roberto Antonio Ferreira De Almeida) | Discussion about any Python-related SoC topic should take place on [http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/soc2006 the soc2006 mailing list]. |
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| The Data Access Protocol (DAP) is a data transmission protocol designed specifically for science data. The protocol relies on the widely used HTTP and MIME standards, and provides data types to accommodate gridded data, relational data, and time series, as well as allowing users to define their own data types. The initiative is funded by NASA, and counts with the support of several institutions. Hundreds of scientific datasets are available on the internet through DAP servers, which can be accessed remotely by DAP clients in a transparent and efficient way. Here I propose to develop a Python implementation of the protocol based on its latest specification. The proposed implementation will consist of a client module that will allow Python applications to access remote datasets, as well as a server for data stored in a variety of formats commonly used by the scientific community, including NetCDF and Matlab files. |
For information on last year's accepted projects, see ["SummerOfCode/2005"]. |
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| Mentor: Paul DuBois. | = Students: How to submit a proposal = |
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| [http://code.google.com/soc/student_signup.html Apply through Google's online form.] | |
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| = Interactive Comments & Annotation for the Python Standard Reference = | [http://code.google.com/soc/student_step1.html Submit an application.] |
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| (Brian Beck) | The Drupal folks have some good information for students on how you should write your application: |
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| A flexible system for comments and annotation on web pages, geared towards the Python standard reference, using Ajax on the client-side and Python on the server-side. |
* [http://drupal.org/node/59963 Student requirements] * [http://drupal.org/node/59037 HOWTO write an application] |
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| Mentors: Ian Bicking, Andrew Kuchling | Here is Google's [http://code.google.com/soc/studentfaq.html Student FAQ] |
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| = Bitten: A Python framework for collecting software metrics from automated builds = | = Mentors: How to apply = |
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| (Christopher Lenz) mentors: gregwilson; trentm | = Bitten: A Python framework for collecting software metrics from automated builds = Today's auto |
The mentor's responsibility is to ensure the student makes progress. This could entail coaching them, providing motivation, making sure they aren't stuck, answering technical questions, or pointing the student to the proper resources. However, the mentor is not expected to do work for the student. In order to accomplish this, the mentor is expected to dedicate a couple of hours per week. |
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| The goal of this work is to design and implementat of a distributed system for automated builds and continuous integration that allows the central collection and storage of software metrics generated during the build. The information collected this way needs to be structured and available in a machine-readable format, so that it can be analyzed, aggregated/correlated and presented after the build itself has completed. | [http://code.google.com/soc/mentor_step1.html Apply through Google's online form.] |
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| Mentors: Greg Wilson, Trent Mick. | * [http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-April/063965.html Announcement made to Python-Dev] * [http://code.google.com/soc/mentorfaq.html Mentor FAQ] * Contact [mailto:nnorwitz@gmail.com Neal Norwitz] * If neither Neal nor Guido know you personally, please provide personal references of some sort. |
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| = A Program Visualization Tool = | = Proposal ideas = |
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| (Tero Kuusela) | The ideas on the following pages are just suggestions. You're free to invent your own ideas, and don't have to use these suggestions as starting points. |
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| The goal is to write, in Python, a functional program visualization tool that can visualize Python code. With the visualization tool, one can write a program and see the execution visualized to help understanding how the program works. This is especially useful to assist students learning how to program. |
* ["SummerOfCode/PythonCore"] * ["SummerOfCode/PythonLibraries"] * ["SummerOfCode/Applications"] * ["SummerOfCode/PythonWebSite"] |
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| Mentor: David Ascher. | = Related sponsors = |
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| While not sponsors themselves, the PyPy and Jython projects have many SoC sized tasks available. For PyPy, see [http://codespeak.net/pypy/dist/pypy/doc/independent-project-ideas.html] for some concrete suggestions. | |
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| Those interested in working in [http://www.djangoproject.com Django] may do so [http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/SummerOfCode2006 under the auspices of the Django group]. | |
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| = Object-Oriented File System Virtualisation = | MoinMoin is also participating as their own organization, see [http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/GoogleSoc2006] for project ideas. |
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| (Adam Kerz) | [http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/ BBC Research] is also a mentor organisation for python projects using the [http://kamaelia.sourceforge.net/Introduction.html Kamaelia] project for audio/video & multimedia/networking related projects, also for graphical construction of systems. Please see our [http://kamaelia.sourceforge.net/SummerOfCode2006.html Summer of Code] page for more details. (There's some discussion on edu-sig which coincides with some of aims BTW, so if you're interested in python for schools, talk to us, we can't guarantee anything but you'll understand why we're interested if you chat to us!) The current list of ideas there that we're looking to mentor includes the following: * "Trusted Communications" (trusted by the user) * "Component bindings to AV codecs" * "Modifications of Visual Graphline editors, Reapplication to Graphline Video Editting" * "CSS-esque Styling and XML (?) Layout Definition of Pygame Applications" * "Collaborative Sketching Server - A P2P Events Backplane Application" * "Creation of an integrated bit torrent component" * "OpenGL widget framework" * "Hierarchical topology visualiser" * "Hierarchical Introspector" * "Distributed physics" * "Primitives for graphical composition" |
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| Create an object oriented model of a file system in Python that can be used to interface many different resource types (with appropriate implementations). | = Accepted proposals = |
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| Mentor: Trent Mick. | Note: if a project is listed as having two mentors, the first mentor listed is the ''primary'' mentor, and the second one is the ''back-up'' mentor. |
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| = Wax GUI for Python = (Abhishek Reddy) Wax requires work on four broad fronts. Firstly, support for several basic controls need to be added, some of which are listed above. Secondly, the design of the whole module has to be reviewed, particularly focusing on the initialisation. Thirdly, there are teething problems with passing data between Wax and wxPython that must be looked at. Fourthly, documentation, presently lacking, needs to be written. Mentor: Hans Nowak = PyTrails = (Jennifer Dozar) I'm working on an extensible opensource engine for implementing trail-style games such as Oregon Trail or Amazon Trail. The primary goal is to produce a quality edutainment title that can be used free of cost. The secondary goal is to make it easy for other edutainment trail games to be created. PyTrails will be Python based and uses PyGame. The engine will allow following a branching map including making stops to rest, hunt, or trade. Additional choices such as shopping and fording rivers may be available at special points. Each of these activities will be replacable in other trail games as to allow for maximum flexibility. Mentors: Cameron Laird, Andrew Kuchling = mmpy -- A garbage collection tool kit in Python = (Carl Friedrich Bolz) The project aims at producing a framework for writing and evaluating garbage collectors in Python. The interfaces to the low level memory and to the object model will be general enough to make it usable for a wide range of projects in need for garbage collection as well as for teaching and research purposes. It will be designed with flexibility and modularity in mind to encourage component reuse. It aims a being directly useful for the PyPy project and translatable by its translation tools. Mentors: Samuele Pedroni, Armin Rigo = Python to C++ translator = (Mark Dufour) As part of my Master's Thesis, I am working on a Python-to-C++ compilation system. Mentors: Jeremy Hylton, Brett Cannon = Mailbox modification = (Gregory K. Johnson) I intend to rewrite the Python library's mailbox module to support mailbox modification. I will extend the module's API (e.g., mailboxes will sport dictionary-like mapping) and enhance certain existing functionality (e.g., message objects will maintain mailbox-format-specific attributes). Full backward compatibility will be maintained. Mentor: Andrew Kuchling = Memory Profiler = (Nick Smallbone) I would like to apply to work over the summer on a Python memory profiler, as listed at CodingProjectIdeas. To see how much work is involved in this, I've put together a prototype, which tries to enumerate all objects from a root, calculating the size of each object it finds. Mentors: Michael Hudson, Jeremy Hylton = Python Bayesian Network Toolbox = (Elliot Cohen) Understanding about Bayesian Belief Networks and use of them is becoming more and more widespread. As understanding develops and spreads out of the research community, there is greater and greater need for a simple to use efficient open source Bayesian Network Toolbox. Bayesian Networks have been used to study a wide array of different areas including, ecological systems, medical diagnoses and financial modeling, among others. Currently, tools to define and use Bayesian Networks are limited to expensive closed source libraries or open source libraries designed for too specific a domain. One package that does support many varieties of Bayesian Networks is Kevin Murphy's Full BNT, which supports both discrete and continuous probability distributions in static and dynamic Bayesian Networks. Mentor: James Tauber = asyncIO = (Vladimir Sukhoy) The proposed goal is to bring cross-platform proactive I/O capabilities to Python. That will enable whole new style of application development with Python in cases when I/O is a bottleneck. Mentor: Mark Hammond = Interactive Python Notebook = (Toni Alatalo) See <http://ipython.scipy.org/google_soc/ipnb_google_soc.pdf>. Mentor: Fernando Perez = Porting _sre.c and arraymodule.c to Python = (Niklaus Haldimann) I would like to create a port of the standard library modules "_sre" and "array" to pure Python. This will benefit alternative Python implementations like PyPy, Jython and IronPython. These projects all have to provide their own implementations of standard library modules written in C if they're not available in pure Python. Mentors: Armin Rigo, Samuele Pedroni = Python Profile Replacement Project = (Floris Bruynooghe) Idea from ProfileReplacementProject page. The current profiler is not free according to the DFSG (Debian Free Software Guidelines) and has been taken out of the main Debian distribution (bug #293932, http://bugs.debian.org/293932). This affects many users as the profiler is integrated into ipython for example[1]. Patches for these programs to run without the profiler have been incorporated, but this is only patchwork and ipython or one lost previously standard functionality. Mentors: Brett Cannon = Wax = (Jason Gedge) This project consists of updating the Wax library for Python. Code will be updated, or even added, to further develop the Wax library. Also, a primary focus will be that of documentation, which Wax currently lacks. Mentors: Hans Nowak = Data Serving/Collection Framework in Python/WSGI = (Ho Chun Wei) A framework based on bulk data serving/collection via the internet. Bulk data are in the form of files that could easily be several hundred MB (not surveys or simple POST data). The client has a file repository that it wishes to sync to the server (a WSGI application). This server should be able to facilitate transfer via a number of protocols, including HTTP file transfer, HTTP form upload, FTP, Email. This project is aimed not at yet another ad-hoc file transfer or p2p file-sharing program but as a persistent production setup for transferring data from data collection sites/areas to a server, possibly via internet through different methods to get through strict organizational firewalls and web admins. Mentors: Ian Bicking = A Mathematica-like Notebook GUI for IPython = (Tzanko Matev) I propose to write a GUI for IPython resembling the interfaces of the computer algebra applications Mathematica and Maple. Mentor: Fernando Perez |
* None yet. |
This page is for students and mentors for the [http://code.google.com/soc/ Google "Summer of Code"] projects involving Python and mentored by the Python Software Foundation (PSF).
Discussion about any Python-related SoC topic should take place on [http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/soc2006 the soc2006 mailing list].
For information on last year's accepted projects, see ["SummerOfCode/2005"].
Students: How to submit a proposal
[http://code.google.com/soc/student_signup.html Apply through Google's online form.]
[http://code.google.com/soc/student_step1.html Submit an application.]
The Drupal folks have some good information for students on how you should write your application:
[http://drupal.org/node/59963 Student requirements]
[http://drupal.org/node/59037 HOWTO write an application]
Here is Google's [http://code.google.com/soc/studentfaq.html Student FAQ]
Mentors: How to apply
The mentor's responsibility is to ensure the student makes progress. This could entail coaching them, providing motivation, making sure they aren't stuck, answering technical questions, or pointing the student to the proper resources. However, the mentor is not expected to do work for the student. In order to accomplish this, the mentor is expected to dedicate a couple of hours per week.
[http://code.google.com/soc/mentor_step1.html Apply through Google's online form.]
[http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-April/063965.html Announcement made to Python-Dev]
[http://code.google.com/soc/mentorfaq.html Mentor FAQ]
Contact [mailto:nnorwitz@gmail.com Neal Norwitz]
- If neither Neal nor Guido know you personally, please provide personal references of some sort.
Proposal ideas
The ideas on the following pages are just suggestions. You're free to invent your own ideas, and don't have to use these suggestions as starting points.
- ["SummerOfCode/Applications"]
Related sponsors
While not sponsors themselves, the PyPy and Jython projects have many SoC sized tasks available. For PyPy, see [http://codespeak.net/pypy/dist/pypy/doc/independent-project-ideas.html] for some concrete suggestions.
Those interested in working in [http://www.djangoproject.com Django] may do so [http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/SummerOfCode2006 under the auspices of the Django group].
MoinMoin is also participating as their own organization, see [http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/GoogleSoc2006] for project ideas.
[http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/ BBC Research] is also a mentor organisation for python projects using the [http://kamaelia.sourceforge.net/Introduction.html Kamaelia] project for audio/video & multimedia/networking related projects, also for graphical construction of systems. Please see our [http://kamaelia.sourceforge.net/SummerOfCode2006.html Summer of Code] page for more details. (There's some discussion on edu-sig which coincides with some of aims BTW, so if you're interested in python for schools, talk to us, we can't guarantee anything but you'll understand why we're interested if you chat to us!) The current list of ideas there that we're looking to mentor includes the following:
- "Trusted Communications" (trusted by the user)
- "Component bindings to AV codecs"
- "Modifications of Visual Graphline editors, Reapplication to Graphline Video Editting"
- "CSS-esque Styling and XML (?) Layout Definition of Pygame Applications"
- "Collaborative Sketching Server - A P2P Events Backplane Application"
- "Creation of an integrated bit torrent component"
- "OpenGL widget framework"
- "Hierarchical topology visualiser"
- "Hierarchical Introspector"
- "Distributed physics"
- "Primitives for graphical composition"
Accepted proposals
Note: if a project is listed as having two mentors, the first mentor listed is the primary mentor, and the second one is the back-up mentor.
- None yet.