GSoC: Announcing accepted students and projects 2011

[Derek Ingrouville]

Hi Everyone,

Thanks for the warm welcome! I'm looking forward to working with all
of you in the MacPorts community this summer.

My project is to develop a system for collecting and displaying
information about how people are using MacPorts. The "How?" question
is answered by collecting data from participating users concerning:

- The ports they use (Active, Inactive, and roughly how often they're
used (using a file's atime)
- Their system configuration (eg Mac OS version, XCode version)

When submitted, the data will be stored on a server and processed. The
processing will consist of breaking down the raw data into interesting
categories and generating useful visualisations. For example, it will
be possible to generate a plot showing the number of users of each
version of a port. Over time it would then also be possible to see how
quickly users transition from one version to another.

At the end of the summer MacPorts will have a system in place from
which it'll be possible to ask the user base a question and get a
useful answer in response.

Derek

On 26 April 2011 06:40, Rainer Müller <raimue at macports.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> for the Google Summer of Code program 2011 our organization, The
> MacPorts Project, got three slots assigned. We filled them based on the
> quality of the proposals and on the limited mentor capacities we have.
>
> Unfortunately, we get less and less proposals each year, but at least
> the overall quality remains constant. Much more activity has been
> triggered on macports-dev than the years before.
>
> This summer, MacPorts will mentor the following students and projects:
>
> Usage statistics
>    Student: Derek Ingrouville
>    Mentor:  Jeremy Lavergne (snc)
>
>
> rev-upgrade
>  Student:   Clemens Lang
>  Mentor:    Rainer Müller (raimue)
>
>
> post-destroot verification
>  Student:   Felipe Tanus
>  Mentor:    Perry Lee (perry)
>
>
> Derek, Clemens, Felipe, welcome to our community!
>
> Although you have already introduced yourself on the mailing list with
> your proposals, it would probably be a good idea if you three could
> reply with a few words about your upcoming projects.
>
> Looking forward to a Summer of Code,
> Rainer
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