= Google's Summer of Code 2006 =

Django (and the Lawrence Journal-World) is a sponsoring organization for the [http://code.google.com/soc/ 2006 Google Summer of Code]. (Read Google's page for more information on how the program works.)

== Mentors ==

If you're interesting in mentoring -- supervising a student in work on Django-related activities -- [http://code.google.com/soc/mentor_step1.html sign up over at Google] and then add your name below:

 * [http://jacobian.org/ Jacob Kaplan-Moss]
 * [http://postneo.com Matt Croydon]
 * James Bennett
 * [http://www.holovaty.com/ Adrian Holovaty]
 * [http://www.simonb.com/ Simon Blanchard]
 * ...

== Students ==

Student applications open May 1st. Watch [http://groups.google.com/group/django-users django-users] for an announcement when the signups open.

== Ideas ==

Here are some suggestions for projects students may want to propose (lazyweb: please add to this list!). This isn't by any means the be-all and end-all of ideas; please feel free to submit proposals for things not on this list. 

Try to scope ideas/proposals to the 4-month timeline -- simply proposing to fix a ticket or two will probably result in your proposal being rejected in favor of a more ambitious one.  The SOC '''does not cover activities other than coding''', so certain ideas ("Write a more detailed tutorial" or "Create demonstration screencasts" or "Add a [http://jifty.org/view/HomePage pony]") are not suitable for inclusion here.

 * Build a public repository for reusable Django applications.  This probably includes:
   * a standard way of packaging Django apps for distribution
   * infastructure for automatically downloading and installing packaged Django apps.

 * Create Django packages and buildscripts for Linux (various), FreeBSD (There already is one www/py-django), OS X (Fink and Darwinports), etc.

 * Create a generic, reusable search/indexer component.

 * Enhance the admin's support of rich media:
   * create a file explorer for MEDIA_ROOT in the admin: browsing and making directories, uploading files
   * automatically make thumbnails from !ImageFields (with programmable "PIL modes" (i.e. adding borders, overlaying png's))
   * validation of image type, sizes, etc
   * support for uploading large files through the admin with a pretty progress indicator

 * Implement ModelInheritance.

 * Implement SchemaEvolution.

 * ...