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'''Priorities''': see the [http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2009-March/004592.html ongoing discussion of priorities] on our mailing list. To summarize that thread: the highest priority is for you to have a successful GSoC, which should bias you towards easier projects such as [[#Stand-alone activities]]. But if we had to rank this list in terms of priorities for Sugar, the [[#AJAX Sugar aka Karma]] and [[#Versioned Datastore]] ideas are probably our highest priorities, followed by the rest of the [[#Toolkits / Frameworks for developers]]. These are generally hard, though, so we would need you to give us evidence that you are capable to accept you for these ideas.

'''Priorities''': see the [http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2009-March/004592.html ongoing discussion of priorities] on our mailing list. To summarize that thread: the highest priority is for you to have a successful GSoC, which should bias you towards easier projects such as [[#Stand-alone activities]]. But if we had to rank this list in terms of priorities for Sugar, the [[#AJAX Sugar aka Karma]] and [[#Versioned Datastore]] ideas are probably our highest priorities, followed by the rest of the [[#Toolkits / Frameworks for developers]]. These are generally hard, though, so we would need you to give us evidence that you are capable to accept you for these ideas.

* There is a similar project ideas page on the [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Summer_of_Code/Ideas OLPC wiki] (and a related [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Category:GSoC_proposals category]).  OLPC-specific projects, including hardware- <s>and scoholserver-</s>related projects, should go there. ''Update: since OLPC did not get into GSoC this year, we would consider mentoring school-server related projects.'' Feel free to add below relevant projects from that list - perhaps <s>80%</s> 95% of these could be appropriate Sugarlabs applications.  

* There is a similar project ideas page on the [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Summer_of_Code/Ideas OLPC wiki] (and a related [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Category:GSoC_proposals category]).  OLPC-specific projects, including hardware- <s>and schoolserver-</s>related projects, should go there. ''Update: since OLPC did not get into GSoC this year, we would consider mentoring school-server related projects.'' Feel free to add below relevant projects from that list - perhaps <s>80%</s> 95% of these could be appropriate Sugarlabs applications.  

'''See something that interests you?''' To get in, you will need to design your project and find a mentor. On irc (#sugar on freenode) or the sugar-devel mailing list, you can briefly introduce yourself, state your interest, and ask relevant and specific questions about the state of the existing code. You should also do your own research for other open-source code that might help you. Get a [[DevelopmentTeam#Development_systems|development environment]] installed. We definitely appreciate it if you can show your readiness to help out - either joining [[BugSquad|bug squad]] and [[BugSquad/Meetings|helping]] to [[BugSquad/TriageGuide|triage]], or actually helping fix some small [http://tinyurl.com/ctfkjl bug].  

'''See something that interests you?''' To get in, you will need to design your project and find a mentor. On irc (#sugar on freenode) or the sugar-devel mailing list, you can briefly introduce yourself, state your interest, and ask relevant and specific questions about the state of the existing code. You should also do your own research for other open-source code that might help you. Get a [[DevelopmentTeam#Development_systems|development environment]] installed. We definitely appreciate it if you can show your readiness to help out - either joining [[BugSquad|bug squad]] and [[BugSquad/Meetings|helping]] to [[BugSquad/TriageGuide|triage]], or actually helping fix some small [http://tinyurl.com/ctfkjl bug].