Summer of Code/2017

Project Ideas

Title	Mentor	Project
Internationalization and Localization	Chris Leonard	Brief explanation A goal of Sugar Labs is to enable our users to experience Sugar in their own native language. See Translation Proposal To Do List for details. Expected results Work flow improvements for i18n Knowledge prerequisites Some knowledge of Pootle; some scripting experience; Python and JavaScript
New Back-end Server for Turtle Blocks and Music Blocks	Walter Bender Vikram Ahuja Ignacio Rodriguez	Brief explanation Last year we sponsored an exploration of using a git-like back end for projects so that they could be cloned, forked, etc. This summer we would like to implement and deploy this new approach. Expected results Deployment of "git" back end. Knowledge prerequisites Knowledge of Git, JavaScript, server-side skills
Going Beyond Equal Temperament in Music Blocks	Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri	Brief explanation Most modern music systems are designed around equal temperament. But there are many ways to chose and tune notes in a musical system that offer different expressive characteristics. Expected results Extend Music Blocks such that different approaches to temperament are available to the user. Knowledge prerequisites Knowledge of JavaScript, music theory
Giving Sugar Labs Website a New Look	Ignacio Rodriguez Samson Goddy Dave Crossland Tymon Radzik	Brief explanation Sugar Labs would like a new look for its homepage, with the goals of making it more attractive and easier to explore (See link to get more information concerning the proposed homepage). Expected results Deployment of a new website for Sugar Labs Knowledge prerequisites JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Ruby, JQuery, jeckyl, and/or django
Maintenance of activities.sugarlabs.org (ASLO)	(volunteers?)	Brief explanation http://activities.sugarlabs.org/ is the Sugar Labs app store, where activities are hosted and downloaded. Some maintenance tasks are needed. Sugar uses activities.sugarlabs.org in Software Update in My Settings, and has a link to it in the Browse default page. Expected results Fix downloads by non-Sugar browsers; old versions are offered. Fix downloads by new versions of Sugar; old versions are offered. Make activity maintainer take-over easier; not easy at the moment. Adopt the new look from the new sugarlabs.org site; theme now is quite old. Show new activity.info metadata such as source repository. Other problems listed in bugs.sugarlabs.org against component activities.sugarlabs.org. Semi-automate common maintenance tasks; like adding a new Sugar version. Document future maintenance on the Wiki. Knowledge prerequisites PHP, MySQL, Python, Apache, cron, PHP-Cake, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and git. See source code.
School Management Backend	Walter Bender	Brief explanation Sugar is a desktop and a collection of apps. It has great internal features for collaboration and journaling. But it doesn't have any mechanism for managing courses/curriculum/administrative functions commonly found in "school management systems". It could be possible to overlay on top of Sugar web-services such a toolkit. Expected results a framework, a core implementation, and documentation for expanding the implementation. Knowledge prerequisites Python, django
Timbre Widget for Music Blocks	Walter Bender Devin Ulibarri	Brief explanation Ayush Kumar designed a widget for designing voices for Music Blocks (See [1]). This project would be to implement the design. Expected results a working widget for Music Blocks for manipulating Timbre. Knowledge prerequisites JavaScript