This page coordinates the Google Summer of Code projects involving Python and mentored by the Python Software Foundation (PSF) in 2009.

Prospective Students

If you are a student interested in working on core Python development or on a project that helps the Python community, we'd love to have you apply to the Python Software Foundation for this year's Google Summer of Code.

You should join the soc2009-general mailing list and take a look at the Project Ideas section below. If any interest you, feel free to contact the proposer for details. You can also discuss your own project ideas with the people mentioned or talk about them on the soc2009-general mailing list. Some of us also hang out on #gsoc-python on freenode.

Students should read SummerOfCode/Expectations to understand what is expected of them.

Project Ideas

Core

Education

Project ideas for promoting Python in education:

• Porting Crunchy to Python 3.0 (André Roberge)

Games

Project ideas for Python-based game engines:

• Accelerated soy.fields physics in PySoy (Arc Riley)

Interpreter

Project ideas involving alternative Python interpreters, compilers, and code parsers:

MathSci

Project ideas enhancing Python's math and science projects:

• matplotlib-related projects (John Hunter and Michael Droettboom)

  • Extracting matplotlib's mathematical expression renderer into a standalone Python project
  • Adding an html5/canvas backend

• NumPy/SciPy project ideas

Media

Project ideas for Python's graphics, sound, and video packages:

Network

Project ideas for non-web networking packages for Python:

Performance

Project ideas related to application performance:

• Robust and fast (C with python fallback) memcache client implementation (Wichert Akkerman)

Web

Project ideas for Python web frameworks and template engines:

Previous years

• SummerOfCode/2005

• SummerOfCode/2006

• SummerOfCode/2007

• SummerOfCode/2008