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Google Summer Of Code

Posted by Eric Seidel on Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 at 1:14 pm

Are you a university student? Would you like to get paid to hack on WebKit? WebKit is participating in Google’s Summer of Code. Google will pay you to work on WebKit for the summer. Coding sure beats flipping burgers.

Google begins accepting applications March 24th, 2008. We’ve posted some example project ideas to start your thought processes. Some highlights:

Finish SVG 1.1 - filters, animation, various other bugs
Finish CSS 2.1 or parts of CSS 3 (e.g. paged media)
Web technology support - MathML, Ruby, HTML5, XBL2, ARIA
Port WebKit to your favorite platform
Improve our developer tools (Drosera, Web Inspector) or add your own (e.g. a JS profiler)
Propose your own idea! What cool things should tomorrow’s web browsers do?

Prospective applicants should read Google’s student application instructions and join #webkit on freenode.net to meet the WebKit community. We’re happy to answer any questions about possible projects or mentors. Join #gsoc to ask the Google folks any administrative questions you may have.
We look forward to hacking with you this summer!

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5 Responses to “Google Summer Of Code”

Rene Says:
March 19th, 2008 at 6:15 am
… What cool things should tomorrow’s web browsers do?

It’s just a vision but for me future browser versions should be able to do almost anything. Why not replacing the OS itself?
mekentosj Says:
March 19th, 2008 at 10:15 am
… What cool things should tomorrow’s web browsers do?

If I were still a student (and would have the time I had back then) I would love to add support for microformats (http://microformats.org), wouldn’t it be so cool if your iPhone would immediately recognize hcards, hCalendar events, locations? Let’s hope a student thinks the same..
dipser Says:
March 19th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
I would like to see an implementation for webcams to take pictures (JS-API) directly inside the website. This would be a cool thing for social networks, avatars etc.

In other words: PhotoBooth for Websites.
smallenperl Says:
March 20th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
I don’t understand why Google requires that the applicant be a university student. I don’t want to do a project with WebKit myself right now, but I am not happy that Google wouldn’t accept me if I were. I am happy to see WebKit participate at least.
ArtBarstow Says:
March 28th, 2008 at 4:09 am
Regarding XBL2, a couple of JavaScript-based prototypes have been started:

1. http://www.jerf.org/resources/xblinjs/

2. http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/2006/waf/XBLImpl/

3. http://code.google.com/p/xbl/