Comments on: Summer of Code 2008: 21 potential projects

By: TallTroll

TallTroll — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:33:36 +0000

>> 9 A Firefox extension or Greasemonkey to report webspam to Google. The extension would let you report a spam webpage from a button on a toolbar. The extension would also add a “Report as Spam!” button to Google’s search results page.

Or 9b) A Firefox extension or Greasemonkey to spam reporting webspam to Google. The extension would let you report a spam webpage from a button on a toolbar. Or the automated agent posing as you anyway. The extension would also add a “Report as Spam!” button to Google’s search results page. And then click it over and over, based on the list of competitor URLs in your main d/base

Sometimes, a lack of user interaction is a good thing…

By: John Fisher

John Fisher — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:23:26 +0000

Number 11 is, I think, well underway. And it should get some support from OEMs who have a financial stake in it.

I would really like a port of Sketchup for linux.

Thanks

John

By: ranti

ranti — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:56:08 +0000

Re #21: how about something like Picasa but for books? One can have the collections locally on the computer, but can also upload and share all/some of them online. I really like the sharing concept on http://librarything.com.

By: Aleks

Aleks — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:11:21 +0000

Thank you very much for this list! I intend on participating in GSoC this year (finally reached the age where I could), and these ideas really got me thinking! I really like your last idea, with the books. I also love your screencasting program suggestion! Linux has a few programs that do this, but they aren’t too good.

By: Karl

Karl — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:56:10 +0000

Hi!

A well documented tool for simple customizing WordPress layout:

as Fonts and their Dimensions
Background Colour or Picture
Positioning of Textframes

Greetings

Karl

By: Matt Cutts

Matt Cutts — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:24:44 +0000

“#10.A simple tool to backup your entire Google account (email, calendar, docs, feeds, etc.).
I would like to do this ……”

Arun, the student applications open up on March 24th, I think.

By: Matt Cutts

Matt Cutts — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:19:10 +0000

Jack, many Google services do provide download in portable formats. For example, Google calendar provides an RSS feed which you can then download and save off.

By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 03:26:18 +0000

Matt–register my vote for #10. The ability to export any of the data in open formats (XML, CSV, tab-delimited text, etc.) would be great. Calendars can now be synchronized with Outlook, so why not allow a data download?

By: Jotham

Jotham — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:27:28 +0000

I’m making a face collage at newphotobooths.com. Just one big page of pics. Could some smart summer-of-code programmers :

a) create css commands that arrange image files of varying heights and widths with no overlap and no white space. (so I can stop using photoshop for each new addition)
b) randomize the image placement, so it’s different with each load.
c) make it load quickly. (of course)

thanks Matt!
Jotham

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:02:10 +0000

In Gmail, a conversation is a collection of related emails. I can expand/collapse it, print it, or email it.

Why not add this functionality to other collections? I.e. a collection of emails with the same label; any search result; recent emails from a contact; etc.

Right now, I’d like to be able to look at the content of 5 emails (not in the same conversation). I gave them a temporary label, clicked on the new label, and hopefully looked for the expand/collapse, print, email functions.

Sorry, but I just realized that this doesn’t fall under open source. But to heck with it, I’m going to leave the comment anyhow.