Summer of Code/2018/Archive

Non-Coding Project Ideas

GSoC projects must involve some coding. Non-coding projects have been moved into this page. Move them back by adding coding to the projects.

Title	Mentor	Project
Sugarizer Primero (Sugarizer1°)	Education Team Caryl Bigenho Samson Goddy Jaskirat Singh perriefidelis Abdulazeez Abdulazeez	Brief explanation Sugarizer is a large collection of many Activities suitable for general audiences. This project will package a subset of the Activities (Minimum of 10 activities) suitable for children with a target age of 4-7 (grades Pre-K-2) and with a friendly UI/UX experience.
Create Examples, Compositions, and New Experiments Every Day!	Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Sachiko Nakajima	Brief explanation Music Blocks has some examples already, but it would be nice to have one ambitious student really work for the summer to make new creative, thoughtful code everyday. Secondary, but important goals, are bug reports when bugs are found, feature suggestions, and overall good and frequent communication with the Music Blocks team. Expected results Quality examples sent daily; variety of styles; runs entire gamut in terms of blocks used (we want a number of great examples for each and every block feature); organized documentation of all examples created, which can be finalized in the final weeks of GSoC Knowledge prerequisites Understanding of Music Blocks as a programming language; A good proposal is one that has a well-thought out and detailed list of music projects for each day of GSoC (time-frames, blocks used, musical styles, name of music to be transcribed); experience with music and composition/theory is a definite plus.
Maintenance of activities.sugarlabs.org (ASLO)	Sam CG	Brief explanation http://activities.sugarlabs.org/ is the Sugar Labs app store, where activities are hosted and downloaded. During GSoC 2017 we built ASLO v3 to address a number of deficiencies. But we have a few odds and ends that need to be addressed to bring the new site on line. Expected results Update missing license and repository info on the activities found in the Sugar Labs github repository. Popular the database for the new ASLO. Do extensive testing (including creating some test suites.) Document future maintenance on the Wiki. Knowledge prerequisites PHP, MySQL, Python, Apache, cron, PHP-Cake, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and git. See [1].
Making a Beginner Guide	Jaskirat Singh Walter Bender Hrishi Patel Rishabh Thaney Shivang Shekhar Samson Goddy Abdulazeez Abdulazeez	Brief explanation We don't have a beginner guide for the newcomers to the Sugar labs Community. It would be great to guide them by guiding them how to contribute through making these "form where to start? , What to start? , How to start? , Where to submit? " . An example is the Coala Newcomers' Guide which is built from markdown source. The goal of this task is to Help newcomers to get introduce in easy way to the world of Sugar Labs also make a dasboard for the users so they can get about developed and developing areas. Their contribution can be seen also their presence can be seen with the community. Expected results A set of website pages and also documentation in Pdf form with this the problems of newcomers about their contribution will be solved and they can work easily Knowledge prerequisites community research, GitHub, coding experience (Markdown, HTML/CSS) for the guide and JavaScipt, PHP for making dasboard.
Lesson Plans for Music Blocks	Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri Sachiko Nakajima Hrishi Patel	Brief explanation We have a Guide, but we really need some more scaffolding in the form of lesson plans. Expected results A website and PDF document that can be bound. Knowledge prerequisites Knowledge of music theory, writing skills
Updating a new design of Sugarlabs wiki	Jaskirat Singh Walter bender Hrishi Patel Rishabh Thaney Samson Goddy	Brief explanation we are lacking in look of wiki.sugarlabs.org page. It looks ugly and unfriendly and need to be updated with a good design Expected results New design of Wiki page of Sugarlabs Knowledge prerequisites Knowledge of mediawiki and use of some basic languages
Outreach	Walter Bender Samson Goddy Jaskirat Singh	Brief explanation We don't have a very friendly approach to outreach to new contributors. It would be great to make it easier to get involved and to navigate the path towards contributing to Sugar Labs. The goal of this project is to revamp our approach to outreach. Expected results A set of pages similar to [2] and [3] Knowledge prerequisites community outreach experience; some coding experience (to create requisite artifacts)
Making a marketing animated website page of Sugar Labs	Jaskirat Singh Samson Goddy Hrishi Patel	Brief explanation We need to develop a link that is website-page that will include a page with animations explaining all the things we have in Sugarlabs (as a marketing) like these examples (See [4] and [5] Expected results A UI/UX layout and a main page that can be used to market the things in an animated way Knowledge prerequisites Knowledge of marketing and use of some basic languages (HTML, CSS styling, PHP)