[Dspace-general] Google summer of code projects 2008

[Michele Kimpton]

The DSpace Foundation has registered with Google to participate in  
this years Google summer of code internship.  The DSpace community  
participated last year with much success in generating and completing  
four interesting projects which potentially would be useful to the  
community at large.   The purpose of participation is to potentially  
build some exciting add-ons for the platform but also promote the open  
source software and building a community of "future" developers  
worldwide interested in OSS and advancing open access to to scholarly  
digital works.

We would like to encourage users and developers in the community to  
post their ideas for projects on the wiki:
http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php?title=Summer_of_Code_Ideas_2008

To see ideas from 2007 for reference:
http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php?title=Summer_of_Code_Ideas

We need to get all ideas posted by MARCH 24th, as this is when the  
ideas need to be submitted to google as possible projects for interns  
to review.

We have identified mentors in the community for 5 or 6 projects,  
however if you would like to be a mentor on the project you proposed,  
and are an active developer in the community please identify your  
interest in mentoring on the wiki page.

Ideally the projects proposed are well defined, can be developed as an  
add-on, and can work with the current platform 1.5.

thanks, Michele Kimpton