Google Summer of Code

The GNU Project 2017 Projects

• rootkea

  [GNU Wget] Design and implementation of statistics module
  At the end of the project, the following objectives should be met: host-based statistics are maintained and presented to user when asked to do so...

• Didik Setiawan

  [GNU Wget] Design and Implementation of Test Suite Using Libmicrohttpd
  At the end of the project, the following objectives should be met: Wget2 will use Libmicrohttpd, a small but powerful C library of HTTP server code,...

• theiostream

  GNUstep - Make WebCore run on top of GNUstep
  A longstanding problem in the GNUstep stack has been the absence of a web browser, due to the lack of a modern and feature-complete backing web...

• reepca

  Guix rewrite build daemon in Guile Scheme
  This project proposes to replace the existing C++ guix-daemon with one implemented in Guile Scheme, for purposes of hackability and unity of code...

• Tom Bousso

  Improving Kawa's gnu.bytecode using ObjectWeb ASM
  The goal of this project is to improve the gnu.bytecode library by creating a version of it which uses ObjectWeb ASM to generate classfiles, rather...

• Charles Winston

  Improving the Internal Structure of Chords
  LilyPond's internal representation of chords is limited. As of now, it can mostly only represent the individual notes themselves that make up the...

• Ian-1

  Javascript Backend for Gnu Guile
  To implement a Javascript backend to Gnu Guile, capable of compiling programs for execution in a modern web browser. This proposal completes work...

• Mathieu Lirzin

  JavaScript for info-style navigation
  The info program is very bare-bones (no fonts or images). On the other hand, the info program has a number of conveniences for browsing...

• varadhya

  Multiple qualities of video (GNU MediaGoblin)
  GNU MediaGoblin is a well known free software media publishing platform where people can see and share their media. Even though we can think of it as...

• Olivier Gasuleg

  Proposal GNU Ring project Olivier Grégoire
  I will work on the GNU Ring project. This project is, at the moment, unstable due to a lack of automated tests. Only a part of the code is tested.I...

• Houmin

  Ring - Create a C++ plugin for Ring
  The plugin will read incoming messages and detect a particular sequence (keyword). The sequence is a written message in some scripting language (to...

• asalman

  Ring: NodeJS Plugin for Seamless Cross-platform Client Development
  A big problem impeding Ring development is developing (and providing support for) different Ring clients running on disparate systems. What this...

• Akash Rawal

  wget2 - Design and implementation of a framework for plugins
  Ability to extend wget for a paritcular purpose using dynamically loadable modules would be a nice addition. (Reference idea)