Potential projects for GSoC

Here are the projects from Ideas in preparation for a final selection. Please click on project title to come to the project's own page, where you can find its description and more. There are also next/previous icons for easier browsing between projects. All Mentors registered on this site have edit access to project pages.

Core
Minimal virtual machine
Object memory modularization
ARM jitter for Squeak VM
Bootstrapping the core
Improving Squeak/Pharo support for running on multicores on the RoarVM
Bring RoarVM-ideas to the standard SqueakVM stack-interpreter
Type Inference
Tools
Search Indexing of Smalltalk image
Image provisioning tool
Big data CSV parser plugin
HDF5 support
Package management with Fuel
Export Excel files and other spreadsheet related goodies
Community-wide VM Performance tracking
Esse, a framework for visualizing, storing and exploring ideas
TestSurgeon
Rizel - Multidimensional Profiler
Math, Statistics
A binding to R
SciSmalltalk
User Interface
Integrate Gezira into Squeak/Pharo
Nautilus
Extend Magritte 3 to create Naked Objects style interfaces
Etoys
Get Etoys image to run on CogVM
Port OpenQwaq video to Etoys
Finish Physical Etoys port to Sugar
Web
Make web browser plugin of Squeak work better on all platforms
ePUB Output for Pier Books
CSS Template System
Improving the Smalltalk GSoC website
MMI (Man-Machine Interface) with Amber
Interactive & social online Smalltalk tutorial
Persistency
External Image Database

 

 

Core

 

 

Minimal virtual machine

Mentor: Craig Latta
Second mentor: Eliot Miranda
Level: Intermediate
Invited students: kuangyin wang
Students interested: kuangyin wang(very),

Object memory modularization

Mentor: Craig Latta
Second mentor: Edgar De Cleene
Level: Intermediate
Invited students:
Students interested: stepa alimov

ARM jitter for Squeak VM

Mentor: Eliot Miranda
Second mentor: Stefan Marr
Level: Advanced
Accepted student: Lars Wassermann
Invited students: Lars Wassermann
Students interested: Lars Wassermann(very), Igor Lyakh(lightly)

Bootstrapping the core

Mentor: Stéphane Ducasse
Second mentor: Edgar De Cleene
Level: Advanced
Accepted student: Guillermo Polito
Invited students: Guillermo Polito
Students interested: Guillermo Polito(very), , Benjamin Van Ryseghem

Improving Squeak/Pharo support for running on multicores on the RoarVM

Mentor: Stefan Marr
Second mentor:
Level: Intermediate
Invited students: Marcus Ihlar
Students interested: Marcus Ihlar(very), Le Nam(very)(no biography!!!)

Bring RoarVM-ideas to the standard SqueakVM stack-interpreter

Mentor: Stefan Marr
Second mentor:
Level: Advanced
Invited students:
Students interested: vipin tiwari(very), Lars Wassermann

Type Inference

 (Student proposal by Santiago Bragagnolo)

Mentor: Francisco Garau
Second mentor: Stéphane Ducasse
Level: Advanced
Accepted student: Santiago Bragagnolo
Invited students: Santiago Bragagnolo
Students interested: Santiago Bragagnolo(very)

 

Tools

 

 

Search Indexing of Smalltalk image

Mentor: Aik-Siong Koh
Second mentor: Ian Chai
Level: Intermediate
Invited students: Chow Zheng Wei
Students interested: Chow Zheng Wei(very), Marcus Ihlar, Dhinnesh Jeevan

Image provisioning tool

Mentor: Geoffroy Couprie
Second mentor:
Level: Intermediate
Invited students: Nahuel Garbezza
Students interested: Nahuel Garbezza

Big data CSV parser plugin

Mentor: Hernán Morales Durand
Second mentor:
Level: Intermediate
Invited students: Jan Kricka, Jiri Srejber
Students interested: Jan Kricka(very), Jiri Srejber(very), Igor Lyakh, Le Nam(no biography!!!)

HDF5 support

Mentor: Hernán Morales Durand
Second mentor:
Level: Intermediate
Invited students:
Students interested:

Package management with Fuel

(Student proposal by Martin Dias)

Mentor: Marcus Denker
Second mentor: Carlos Ferro
Level: Intermediate
Accepted student: Martín Dias
Invited students: Martín Dias
Students interested: Martín Dias(very)

Export Excel files and other spreadsheet related goodies

Mentor: Yuriy Mironenko
Second mentor: Carla Griggio
Level: Beginner
Accepted student: Saurav Bhattacharya
Invited students: Allan Avendano, Saurav Bhattacharya
Students interested: tarun bansal(very), Saurav Bhattacharya(very), Le Nam(no biography!!!), saad touhbi(no biography!!!), Allan Avendano(lightly)

Community-wide VM Performance tracking

Mentor: Stefan Marr
Second mentor:
Level: Beginner
Invited students:
Students interested: stepa alimov, Saurav Bhattacharya(lightly)

Esse, a framework for visualizing, storing and exploring ideas

Mentor: Dennis Schetinin
Second mentor: Alexander Lazarevic
Level: Intermediate
Accepted student: Paul Kuzovkin
Invited students: Paul Kuzovkin
Students interested: Paul Kuzovkin(very), Artem Semikov(very), Amadej Javornik, Rustem Khubbatov

TestSurgeon

(Student proposal by Pablo Estefó)

Mentor: Alexandre Bergel
Second mentor: Yuriy Mironenko
Level: Intermediate
Accepted student: Pablo Estefo
Invited students: Pablo Estefo
Students interested: Pablo Estefo(very)

Rizel - Multidimensional Profiler

(Student proposal by Juan Pablo Sandovar)

Mentor: Alexandre Bergel
Second mentor:
Level: Advanced
Accepted student: Juan Pablo Sandoval Alcocer
Invited students: Juan Pablo Sandoval Alcocer
Students interested: Juan Pablo Sandoval Alcocer(very)

 


Math, Statistics

 

 

A binding to R

Mentor: Hernán Morales Durand
Second mentor: Francisco Garau
Level: Advanced
Invited students:
Students interested: Shubham Singh(very)

SciSmalltalk

Mentor: Serge Stinckwich
Second mentor:
Level: Intermediate
Accepted student: Daniel Uber
Invited students: Junfei Huang, Daniel Uber
Students interested: stepa alimov(very), Nadeem Gamal(very), Junfei Huang(very), Dhinnesh Jeevan(very), Daniel Uber(very), tarun bansal, saad touhbi(no biography!!!)

 

 

User Interface

 

 

Integrate Gezira into Squeak/Pharo

Mentor: Jeff Gonis
Second mentor:
Level: Intermediate
Invited students:
Students interested: Daniel Uber

Nautilus

Mentor: Stéphane Ducasse
Second mentor:
Level: Intermediate
Accepted student: Benjamin Van Ryseghem
Invited students: Benjamin Van Ryseghem
Students interested: Benjamin Van Ryseghem(very)

Extend Magritte 3 to create Naked Objects style interfaces

Mentor: Stephan Eggermont
Second mentor: stan shepherd
Level: Intermediate
Invited students: Santiago Bragagnolo, Lars Wassermann
Students interested: Santiago Bragagnolo, Lars Wassermann, Jan Kricka(lightly)

 

 

Etoys

 

 

Get Etoys image to run on CogVM

Mentor: Karl Ramberg
Second mentor: Bert Freudenberg
Level: Advanced
Invited students: vipin tiwari
Students interested: vipin tiwari(very)

Port OpenQwaq video to Etoys

Mentor: Karl Ramberg
Second mentor: Bert Freudenberg
Level: Advanced
Invited students: vipin tiwari
Students interested: vipin tiwari(very)

Finish Physical Etoys port to Sugar

Mentor: Ricardo Moran
Second mentor: Bert Freudenberg
Level: Intermediate
Accepted student:
Invited students: , Facundo Mainere
Students interested: (very), Facundo Mainere(very)

 

 

Web

 

 

Make web browser plugin of Squeak work better on all platforms

Mentor: Karl Ramberg
Second mentor: Bert Freudenberg
Level: Advanced
Invited students: Igor Lyakh, Jiri Srejber
Students interested: Igor Lyakh(very), Junfei Huang, Jiri Srejber, Marin Basic(lightly)

ePUB Output for Pier Books

Mentor: Nick Ager
Second mentor: Lukas Renggli
Level: Intermediate
Invited students:
Students interested: Saurav Bhattacharya, Jan Kricka

CSS Template System

Mentor: Hernán Morales Durand
Second mentor: Carla Griggio
Level: Beginner
Invited students: Allan Avendano, Amadej Javornik
Students interested: Allan Avendano(very), Amadej Javornik(very)

Improving the Smalltalk GSoC website

Mentor: Janko Mivšek
Second mentor: Carla Griggio
Level: Beginner
Invited students: Amadej Javornik, Sanchit Mittal
Students interested: Sanchit Mittal(very), tarun bansal, Amadej Javornik, Santiago Bragagnolo(lightly), Jiri Srejber(lightly)

MMI (Man-Machine Interface) with Amber

(Student proposal by Rustem Khubbatov)

Mentor: Dennis Schetinin
Second mentor:
Level: Intermediate
Accepted student: Rustem Khubbatov
Invited students: Rustem Khubbatov
Students interested: Rustem Khubbatov(very), saad touhbi(no biography!!!)

Interactive & social online Smalltalk tutorial

(Student proposal by Nahuel Garbezza and Facundo Mainerehttp://gsoc2012.esug.org/facundo-mainere)

Mentor: Gabriela Arevalo
Second mentor:
Level: Intermediate
Accepted student: Facundo Mainere
Invited students: Nahuel Garbezza, Facundo Mainere
Students interested: Nahuel Garbezza(very), Facundo Mainere, saad touhbi(no biography!!!)

 

Persistency

 

 

External Image Database

Mentor: Bernat Romagosa
Second mentor:
Level: Advanced
Invited students:
Students interested: Junfei Huang



Updated: 7.4.2012