These are the [http://code.google.com/soc/ Google "Summer of Code"] projects involving Python.

For information on the accepted projects for 2005, see ["SummerOfCode/2005"].

How to apply as a mentor

[http://code.google.com/soc/mentor_step1.html "Apply through Google's online form."]

• [http://code.google.com/soc/mentorfaq.html Mentor FAQ]

How to submit a proposal

• [http://code.google.com/soc/studentfaq.html Student FAQ]

Proposal ideas

The following ideas are just suggestions. You're free to invent your own ideas, or to use their suggestions as starting points.

• Some ideas to help get you started: look at the SimpleTodo and CodingProjectIdeas pages.

• Revive restricted Python -- inspired by a recent thread on the py3k list.
• Create a bunch of modules like what Squeak has for 3D modeling, events etc. (the exact list may be somewhat different, I haven't researched this in any depth). This is inspired by a recommendation from Alan Kay made at the Shuttleworth workshop.

• Add a web-based admin interface and/or user-oriented views to [http://www.third-bit.com/drproject DrProject], a lightweight project management portal intended for use in software engineering courses.

• Work on [http://www.djangoproject.com Django] -- a "high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design" (actually, Django will likely be its own Summer of Code sponsor; stay tuned -- JKM).

• Help improve the www.python.org web site production system (pyramid) and write documentation to prepare it for open source release.
• Help move www.python.org towards dynamic content generation techniques.
• Improve Buildbot for python use and/or in general.

• The PyPy project has lots of SoC sized tasks. Ask on the pypy-dev mailing list.

• Improve Jython

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.