[Tux4kids-discuss] GSOC 2010 Project Idea

[David Bruce]

Hi Deepak,

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Caroline Ford
<caroline.ford.work at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Generally we'd rather people contributed to the current applications rather
> than started a new one which won't be finished by the end of the summer and
> will probably be neglected afterwards.
> Every year people want to make their own program. That's not really the
> spirit and we've not accepted any yet.
> We are only really interested in contributors to the current three
> programs.
> Sorry
> Caroline

Let me elaborate a bit more - we aren't closed to the idea of another
Tux4Kids application, but that would be beyond the scope of a GSoC
project.  In particular, we want focused projects that are going to be
completely finished by the end of the summer, including testing,
documentation, and integration into the parent project.  Last year we
had some great, ambitious projects that have yet to be released to the
public.

Keep in mind the some of the goals of tux4kids:
1. internationalization - the programs need to be designed with native
language support.
2. cross-platform - these are linux programs, but we want them to be
easily built for the computers kids are likely to encounter in
schools, meaning Windows and OS-X.  Plus, I for one want to support
BeOS/Haiku as much as library support will allow.

So, if you really want to develop "Tux Lingua", you will need more
than a summer, I guarantee it.  I'd suggest trying to write a very
well-researched proposal to add some useful modification to one of our
existing programs.  After that, if you really become a long-term
contributor, you would be more than welcome to work one whatever you
want.

Best,

David Bruce