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Several of the developers have experience with teaching students or work as professional software engineers, so we think that the mentored students will be able to learn a lot about software development besides the experience they can get when participating the Summer of Code. | Several of the developers have experience with teaching students or work as professional software engineers, so we think that the mentored students will be able to learn a lot about software development besides the experience they can get when participating the Summer of Code. | ||
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| − | We expect students to interact with the project's community by participating on our | + | We expect students to interact with the project's community by participating on our mailing list. We hope that the Summer of Code will be a very positive experience for them, which would drive continued participation even after the end of this year's Summer of Code. |
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* [http://code.google.com/soc/2008/faqs.html#0.1_about_gsoc Google Summer of Code - Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)] | * [http://code.google.com/soc/2008/faqs.html#0.1_about_gsoc Google Summer of Code - Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)] | ||
* [http://groups.google.com/group/google-summer-of-code-announce/web/notes-on-organization-selection-criteria Notes on Organizations Selection Criteria] | * [http://groups.google.com/group/google-summer-of-code-announce/web/notes-on-organization-selection-criteria Notes on Organizations Selection Criteria] | ||
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Revision as of 07:37, 1 September 2010
This page collects information about subscribing Lazarus and other Pascal software in contests, offering application models and other resources.
Qt Center Contest
Website:
http://www.qtcentre.org/contest-
Duration:
The contest starts on April 7, 2008 and lasts until September 30, 2008. Registration closes on May 31, 2008.
The Lazarus Qt Interface
Category:
Demo
Description:
Lazarus is a cross platform Visual Integrated development environment (IDE) which provides Rapid Application Development (RAD) for Pascal and Object Pascal developers. It is developed for and supported by the Free Pascal compiler.
Lazarus offers a cross-platform library called LCL (Lazarus Component Library), with which the IDE and applications developed with Lazarus are built. This library supports using several different widgetset interfaces. For examples, there are LCL interfaces for: Windows API, Windows CE API, Gtk+, Carbon (Mac OS X), Cocoa (Mac OS X), etc.
The project is the development of a LCL Interface for Qt 4, using the Qt4 Pascal bindings developed by Den Jean. With a high quality LCL-Qt interface, the Lazarus IDE is able to run purely on Qt, and any LCL written application can also be recompiled to run over Qt.
Google Summer of Code
Application models
Free Pascal and Lazarus (2008)
1 - What is your Organization's Name?
Free Pascal and Lazarus
2 - What is your Organization's Homepage?
www.freepascal.org
3 - Describe your organization
FPC/Lazarus is the joined effort of two development teams to provide a compiler, class libraries and an IDE to allow the development of Pascal programs on all interesting platforms. Currently we support several architectures (x86, Amd64/x86_64, PowerPC, Sparc and ARM), and several operating systems (Windows, Windows CE, Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, Mac OS classic, DOS, Win32, OS/2, Netware, MorphOS and others). We, the maintainers of the FreePascal and Lazarus projects would like to apply as a single organization (called FPC/Lazarus) since our projects are very closely related.
FreePascal (http://www.freepascal.org/) develops a 32 and 64 bit professional Pascal compiler and the runtime environment. The FreePascal project is already a very long-running OSS project, it has been developed in 1993 with a first release in 1996 and since then has evolved in a rather large project, already supporting a lot of platforms on several different processor families.
Lazarus (http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org) is both the class libraries for Free Pascal that emulates Delphi and a modern and efficient IDE. Lazarus and Free Pascal strive for the write once compile anywhere philosophy. Since the exact same compiler and class library are available on several platforms, no recoding is necessary to produce identical products for them.
4 - Why is your organization applying to participate in GSoC 2008? What do you hope to gain by participating?
The FreePascal team would like to take this opportunity to extend the compiler and improve its quality even more. A collection of ideas for students working on the FreePascal can be found at http://wiki.freepascal.org/index.php/Open_tasks . Of course we are willing to provide more exact requirements for each particular task if required.
The Lazarus team hopes that this project will allow us to improve our project, add new features, and make it an even better cross-platform development environment. There is a collection of ideas to be implemented here: http://wiki.freepascal.org/Feature_Ideas
7 - What license does your project use?
Both the compiler and IDE are provided under the GPL, while the runtime libraries are provided under the LGPL with the explicit permission for static linking with proprietary software.
8 - URL for your ideas page
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Feature_Ideas
9 - What is the main development mailing list for your organization?
fpc-devel here: http://www.freepascal.org/maillist.var
10 - Where is the main IRC channel for your organization?
#fpc on FreeNode server
About mentors
1 - What criteria did you use to select these individuals as mentors? Please be as specific as possible.
All the selected individuals have greatly contributed to our projects. For a short example, Florian started the Free Pascal compiler, Paul greatly improved several areas of our GUI library and Almindor works on the FreeBSD port.
Several of the developers have experience with teaching students or work as professional software engineers, so we think that the mentored students will be able to learn a lot about software development besides the experience they can get when participating the Summer of Code.
2 - Who will your mentors be? Please enter their Google Account address separated by commas. If your organization is accepted we will email each mentor to invite them to take part. (optional)
almindor at gmail.com, paul.ishenin at gmail.com, florian.klaempfl at gmail.com
About the program:
1 - What is your plan for dealing with disappearing students?
We hope to have a good enought selection so that our students won't disappear.
2- What is your plan for dealing with disappearing mentors?
All mentors have worked for many years with Free Pascal and/or Lazarus. If, nevertheless, any of them disappear, we have many competent people on our project, and we can nominate a new mentor.
3 - What steps will you take to encourage students to interact with your project's community before, during and after the program?
We expect students to interact with the project's community by participating on our mailing list. We hope that the Summer of Code will be a very positive experience for them, which would drive continued participation even after the end of this year's Summer of Code.
4 - What will you do to ensure that your accepted students stick with the project after GSoC concludes?
We consider that developing relevant software with FPC and Lazarus is the best way to encourage people to stick to the project once Summer of Code ends, because that leads to a natural desire of improving the tools you use, and we will encourage our students to do so.
Virtual Magnifying Glass (2008)
1 - What is your Organization's Name?
Virtual Magnifying Glass
2 - What is your Organization's Homepage?
http://magnifier.sourceforge.net/
3 - Describe your organization
Virtual Magnifying Glass is designed for visually-impaired and others who need to magnify a part of the screen. Unlike most similar programs it does not open a separate window for the magnification but instead puts a movable magnifying glass on screen.
With more then 100.000 downloads per year, the Virtual Magnifying Glass is a widely used software which greatly helps visually-impaired and others to use the computer.
4 - Why is your organization applying to participate in GSoC 2008? What do you hope to gain by participating?
We have a mission of offering the best magnification tool possible for everyone, but some difficulties like the lack of resources is holding the progress of the some features like the Dynamic Mode and the improvement of the support for Unixes, PDAs and other platforms. So we decided to apply to participate in Google Summer of Code in the hope of gaining the necessary resources to improve this software even further.
7 - What license does your project use?
GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, June 1991
8 - URL for your ideas page
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=60638&atid=494774
9 - What is the main development mailing list for your organization?
We don't use a mailing list, but rather a forum: http://sourceforge.net/forum/?group_id=60638
10 - Where is the main IRC channel for your organization?
We don't use IRC.
About mentors
1 - What criteria did you use to select these individuals as mentors? Please be as specific as possible.
All selected individuals have greatly contribute for the Virtual Magnifying Glass in the past.
About the program:
1 - What is your plan for dealing with disappearing students?
We hope to have a good enought selection so that our students won't disappear.
2- What is your plan for dealing with disappearing mentors?
In the event of a disappearing mentor, we can call more people from our project to assume the position.
3 - What steps will you take to encourage students to interact with your project's community before, during and after the program?
We will expect students to participate on our forums and read the bug tracker as a way to interact with the community.
4 - What will you do to ensure that your accepted students stick with the project after GSoC concludes?
We believe that continued work on the project will come naturally due to it's noble objective of improving the quality of life of the visually impaired. Other factors that would influence that are if the student uses the glass personally, or knows personally people that do, or if he develops scientific research based on it.
