Google Code In 2013

This is the project page for the Sugar Labs application to Google Code In. Sugar Labs community members: please feel free to add tasks below. We'll do an edit before final applications are due on 28 Oct 2013.

Message to potential participants

It is important that you obtain permission of your parents.

Es importante que obtengas el permiso de tus padres para participar.

http://www.google-melange.com/gci/document/show/gci_program/google/gci2013/help_page#eligibility

Please see the Contest Rules for Eligibility and Registration process.

http://www.google-melange.com/gci/document/show/gci_program/google/gci2013/terms_and_conditions

Details regarding the required forms and paperwork are here: Google Code In 2013/Participate#Students.

Why we are participating

Sugar is written and maintained by volunteers, who range from seasoned professionals to children as young as 12-years of age. Children who have grown up with Sugar have transitioned from Sugar users to Sugar App developers to Sugar maintainers. They hang out on IRC with the global Sugar developer community and are full-fledged members of the Sugar development team. It is this latter group of children we hope will participate in and benefit from Google Code-in. Specifically we want to re-enforce the message that Sugar belongs to its users and that they have both ownership and the responsibility that ownership implies. Just as learning is not something done to you, but something you do, learning with Sugar ultimately means participating in the Sugar development process. At Sugar Labs, we are trying to bring the culture of Free Software into the culture of school. So the Code-in is not just an opportunity for us to get some tasks accomplished, it is quintessential to our overall mission.

Tasks

Tasks must fall within one of these five categories:

Code

Tasks related to writing or refactoring code

Documentation/Training

Tasks related to creating/editing documents and helping others learn more

Outreach/Research

Tasks related to community management, outreach/marketing, or studying problems and recommending solutions

Quality Assurance

Tasks related to testing and ensuring code is of high quality.

User Interface

Tasks related to user experience research or user interface design and interaction

Title	Description	Hours	Mentor	Category	Tag
Portfolio videos	Add a mechanism for exporting .ogv (voice over still images) of a portfolio presentation	20	walterbender	Code	activity
Abacus gestures	Add gestures to resize custom abacus|	20	walterbender	Code	activity
Portfolio videos	Add a mechanism for exporting .ogv (voice over still images) of a portfolio presentation	20	walterbender	Code	activity
Activity/Journal views	Activities list view is very similar to Journal view and users delete activities instead of journal entries			UI	activity
Sugar version	Reject activity bundles which require a newer version of Sugar			Code	sugar
Multiple school servers	can't register with multiple school servers			Code	sugar
Neighborhood view	Neighbourhood view icons should be placed in a spatially repeatable way			UI	sugar
Force close	No way to force-close (kill) an activity			Code	toolkit
Screenshot	Touch: make take screenshot available			UI	sugar
Brightness mode	Touch: change brightness and mode			UI	sugar
OSK design	Shift key on OSK looks the same in all modes			UI	sugar
Mic volume	Set audio capture volumes			Code	sugar
Bug reporting	inform user about exceptions, offer to file a bug report			Code	sugar
Multi-person send	Send a file to more than one person at a time			Code	sugar
Filter for bundles	Add journal filter for .xo bundles			Code	sugar
Screensaver	add a screensaver to Sugar			Code	sugar
Network forget	Network, forget, or remove as favourite			Code	sugar
Release hidden resources	provide framework code for releasing resources while hidden			Code	sugar
setlocale	class Activity should setlocale			Code	toolkit
Upgrade restrictions	Sugar should not offer to upgrade system activities			Code	sugar
Transfer all metadata	transfer entire data store entry, including arbitrary metadata			Code	sugar
Journal progress	Journal file actions need progress/busy indication			Code	sugar
CDMA modems	Sugar should support CDMA modems as well as GSM			Code	sugar
Proxies	Sugar should directly get proxy settings from gconf		gonzalo_odiard	Code	sugar
rfkill	Radio/wireless control should interact with rfkill			Code	sugar
set mimetypes	set mimetype in detail view			Code	sugar
Drag to clipboard	Be able to drag and drop items from Journal to clipboard			Code	sugar
Absolute date/time	Show absolute date in creation time sort mode			Code	sugar
Time filters	Time filter only cuts off the end of the list instead of offering disjunct time spans			Code	sugar
Canvas-only screenshot	Add modifier to take screenshot only with the canvas			Code	sugar
View Source paths	Reveal path to View source entries			Code	toolkit
Stop pulsing icon	Stop start-up icon pulsing when an activity fails to start			Code	toolkit
Icon-slicer dependency	remove icon-slicer dependency			Code	activity
Activity-specific metadata	Journal should support display of activity-specific metadata		walter	Code	sugar
gtk-accelerator	Use gtk_accelerator_parse() instead of egg for key handling			Code	sugar
Show progress on install	Installing an activity should show progress information			Code	sugar
fullscreen property	expose _is_fullscreen as a window property		walter	Code	activity
Duplicate progress bar	duplicate function in view source needs progress bar		walter	Code	toolkit
Supported mimetypes	Get supported audio and video mime types from gstreamer			Code	toolkit
Set time	Allow Sugar users to adjust clock time and date			Code	sugar
Additional folders in Journal	Add other folders to Journal			Code	sugar
Wifi rescan	Sugar needs method to force wifi network rescan			Code	sugar
forced view updates	Sugar needs method to force Buddy/Shared Activities Network view update			Code	sugar
Button design	Toolbar overflow button: add a better looking arrow		walter	UI	sugar
Language control panel	Language CP module displays combo text in 2nd preferred language			Code	sugar
MessageBox	Toolkit: add MessageBox		manuq	Code	toolkit
Image preview on clipboard	sugar: implement preview on clipboard button for images			Code	sugar

Mentors

NOTES TO MENTORS

Please refer to Google Code In 2013/Participate#Mentors for details regarding enrolling as a mentor.

Please add yourself to the list below.

Feel free to add new tasks to the table above.

Depending on the project, we will assign multiple mentors from our various development and support teams.

• Walter Bender - also org admin for GCI
• Martin Abente
• Sandra Thaxter