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

The 2009 PSF SoC coordinator is ArcRiley <arcriley@gmail.com>. Contact him if you have any questions.

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

These are project ideas proposed by mentors grouped roughly on the type of work it entails. Use the provided links for each for more information and contact the mentors interested in it.

Note: This list of project ideas is still in the process of being built. We hope to have a more-or-less complete set of ideas by Friday, March 20th, 2009.

Summary

Useful skills and experience

Mentor

Core Python

Improve the 2to3 tool for better Python 3 migration

Python, Python3

BenjaminPeterson

3to2 tool for backporting Py3 code

Python, Python3

BenjaminPeterson

Development

Distutils test framework using PYPI. See this page

Python, Buildbot

Tarek Ziadé

Cython has a list of potential projects

Python, C

CythonTeam

Sphinx has a list of potential projects as well -- contact #pocoo on freenode

Python, potentially HTML/JavaScript

GeorgBrandl

Stackless Python has a list of potential projects

Python, C, C++

Richard Tew

Education

Porting Crunchy to Python 3.0

Python, Python3, WSGI

André Roberge

Gaming

Accelerated soy.fields physics in PySoy

Python, C, liboil, ODE

EricStein

Character animation in PySoy using GLSL

Python, C, OpenGL, Quaternion math

BlaisePascal

PyGame has their own ideas page

Python, C (varied)

PyGame

MathSci

Extracting matplotlib's mathematical expression renderer a standalone project

Python

MplMentors

Adding an html5/canvas backend to matplotlib

Python, HTML5

MplMentors

NumPy and SciPy has a list of project ideas

Python

SciPy/NumPy team

SymPy has a list of project ideas

Python

SymPy team

Miscellaneous

Build suite of migration tools to help people move projects between forges like DrProject, SourceForge, Google Code, Trac, etc.

Python, Trac/SF/GC

Blake Winton, Greg Wilson, David Wolever

Extensions/performance improvements to Plastex (so we can finally retire Latex2Html)

Python, LaTeX

Kevin D. Smith, Greg Wilson

Extend Pysync version control abstraction library to work with more VCS's and provide write access as well as read

Python, C, CVS/SVN/P4/Git/Hg/Bzr/etc.

Aran Donohue, Christian Muise, Greg Wilson

Mentor Instructions

We've setup /Incoming for mentors who find the above table intimidating to edit. You can still brave editing this page, just be careful.

Previous years

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