digiKam Google Summer of Code 2012 Projects list

Video Slide Show Generator

Student : Janardhan Reddy <annapareddyjanardhanreddy at gmail dot com>
Lead Mentor : Angelo Naselli
Alternative Mentor : Gilles Caulier
Working on : Kipi-plugins 3.0.0 Git branch
Proposal page
[??? Wiki page]

Camera User Interface Revamp

Student : Islam Wazery <wazery at ubuntu dot com>
Lead Mentor : Gilles Caulier
Alternative Mentor : Marcel Wiesweg
Working on : digiKam 3.0.0 Git branch
Proposal page
Wiki page

Face Recognition

Student : Mahfuzur Rahman Mamun <mamun dot nightcrawler at gmail.com>
Lead Mentor : Marcel Wiesweg
Alternative Mentor : Alex Jironkin
Working on : libkface 3.0.0 and digiKam 3.0.0 Git branches
Proposal page
Wiki page

Improve integration of Photivo

Student : Dominic Lyons <domlyons at googlemail dot com>
Lead Mentor : Benjamin Girault
Alternative Mentor : Bernd Schöler
Working on : Kipi-plugins 3.0.0 Git branch
Proposal page
[??? Wiki page]

UPnP / DLNA plugin

Student : Smit Mehta <smit dot tmeh at gmail dot com>
Lead Mentor : Marcel Wiesweg
Alternative Mentor : Gilles Caulier
Working on : Kipi-plugins 3.0.0 Git branch
Proposal page
[??? Wiki page]

Video Metadata Support

Student : Abhinav Badola <mail dot abu dot to at gmail dot com>
Lead Mentor : Andreas Huggel
Alternative Mentor : Gilles Caulier
Working on : A dedicated Svn branch for Exiv2, and libkexiv2 3.0.0 and digiKam 3.0.0 git branches.
Proposal page
[??? Wiki page]

Porting Libkipi and KIPI-Plugins to KDE XML-GUI

Student : Victor Dodon <dodonvictor at gmail dot com>
Lead Mentor : Benjamin Girault
Alternative Mentor : Gilles Caulier
Working on : Libkipi-2.0.0 Git branch, and Kipi-plugins 3.0.0 Git branch
Proposal page
Wiki page

digiKam Summer of KDE 2012 Projects list

Wallpaper plugin

Student : Varun Herale <varun dot herale at gmail dot com>
Lead Mentor : Gilles Caulier
Alternative Mentor : Angelo Naselli
Working on : Kipi-plugins 3.0.0 Git branch
Bugzilla entry
Wiki page

Auto Noise Reduction

Student : Aniket Handa <atneik at gmail dot com>
Lead Mentor : Gilles Caulier
Alternative Mentor : Marcel Wiesweg
Working on : digiKam 3.0.0 Git branch
Bugzilla entry
Wiki page

Extending Presentation View using Kipi plugins

Student : Dhruv Patel <dhruvkumarr dot patel51 at gmail dot com>
Lead Mentor : Gilles Caulier
Alternative Mentor : Angelo Naselli
Working on : Kipi-plugins 3.0.0 Git branch
Wiki page

Extra projects relevant of digiKam Software Compilation 3.0.0

Kipi-plugins Factoring

Summary

In order to branch Kipi-plugins to 3.0.0, and to optimize time loading of KIPI host applications at startup, some tools need to be binary factored to the same plugin.

Import/Export tools To Web Services to factorize

Facebook
FlickrExport
GalleryExport
PicasaWebExport
Smug
Shwup
PiwigoExport
DebianScreenshots
YandexFotki
MediaWiki
RajceExport
Vkontakte
ImageShackExport
ImgurExport

Mentors List and Coordination

Gilles Caulier <caulier dot gilles at gmail dot com>
Marcel Wiesweg <marcel dot wiesweg at gmx dot de>
Andreas Huggel <ahuggel at gmx dot net>
Angelo Naselli <anaselli at linux dot it>
Benjamin Girault <benjamin dot girault at gmail dot com>
Alex Jironkin <alexjironkin at gmail dot com>
Bernd Schöler <brother dot john at photivo dot org>

Students and mentors will use digikam-soc-devel at kde dot org mailing-list to coordinate projects.

Repositories Branching and Dates

Branches Creation

To create git branches, please look on this tutorial from KDE TechBase. There is another one to know git branches management.

digiKam 3.0.0

Assigned to : Islam Wazery
Git name : "development/3.0.0"
Git Web interface

Kipi-plugins 3.0.0

Assigned to : Smit Mehta
Git name "development/3.0.0"

Libkface 3.0.0

Assigned to : Mahfuzur Rahman Mamun
Git name "development/3.0.0"

Libkexiv2 3.0.0

Assigned to : Abhinav Badola
Git name "development/3.0.0"

Libkipi 2.0.0

Assigned to : Victor Dodon
Git name "development/2.0.0"
Git Web interface

Releases Plan

09 May 2012 : digiKam and Kipi-plugins 2.6.0-RC released from KDE git/master.
13 May 2012 : digiKam 3.0.0 branch created from KDE git/master.
13 May 2012 : Kipi-plugins 3.0.0 branch created from KDE git/master.
13 May 2012 : Libkface 3.0.0 branch created from KDE git/master.
13 May 2012 : Libkexiv2 3.0.0 branch created from KDE git/master.
13 May 2012 : Libkipi 2.0.0 branch created from KDE git/master.
02 Sep 2012 : digiKam Software Collection 3.0.0 beta1 including all GoSC-2012 works.
07 Oct 2012 : digiKam Software Collection 3.0.0 beta2 including all GoSC-2012 works.
04 Nov 2012 : digiKam Software Collection 3.0.0 beta3 including all GoSC-2012 works.
02 Dec 2012 : digiKam Software Collection 3.0.0 RC including all GoSC-2012 works.
23 Dec 2012 : digiKam Software Collection 3.0.0 Final including all GoSC-2012 works.

Coding Sprint

As a lots of students come from India this year, it will be nice to plan a reunion between developers in this country to reduce travel and hotel costs.

Colin Guthrie suggesting to apply for FOSS.IN/2012 event.