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.

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.