Gsoc 2011 ideas

The Midgard Project is applying as a mentoring organization in the Google Summer of Code 2011. If we get accepted, then this is an excellent opportunity for students to have a summer job hacking free software on top of Midgard.

This page contains ideas for projects. As Midgard supports multiple programming languages, this list is organized per-language.

Vala

Possible mentors: piotras, ab

• Implement a Midgard back-end to a GNOME3 app
• Implement SPARQL parser for MidgardCR (using pieces of libtracker-sparql)

JavaScript

Possible mentors: bergie

• Do something cool with midgard-daemon
• Implement chat and presence into the Midgard Create user interface

PHP

Possible mentors: bergie, indeyets

• Integrate Zeta Components functionality into Midgard MVC (MvcTools and Authentication are the main components of interest here)

Python

Possible mentors: jerryjj, indeyets

• Work on providing DesktopCouch interfaces from Midgard2 via PyGI
• Implement a Midgard back-end to a GNOME3 app
• Improve midgard-daemon
• Revive and integrate the Midgard back-end for Gwibber

C

Possible mentors: indeyets, piotras, ab

• add DTrace probes to MidgardCR

Qt/QML

• Figure out a way to access Midgard content repository from QML applications, either via midgard-daemon and ZeroMQ or by direct Qt bindings