[Openicc] Google Summer of Code 2009: Student application

[Hal V. Engel]

On Friday 03 April 2009 08:59:38 am Till Kamppeter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> a student applied for a color management project in this Google Summer
> of Code via the Linux Foundation. See the application below. If someone
> of you wants to mentor him or participate in evaluating his application,
> please sign up as a GSoC mentor for the Linux Foundation (organization
> link ID: LF) on http://socghop.appspot.com/. This does not oblige you to
> actually mentor this student.
>
> If the same application arrived also for OpenICC we can choose which org
> will host this project depending on how many slots each of us gets and
> how urgent our other projects are.
>
>     Till

Till,

I just applied to be a mentor with LinuxFoundation.  I suspect that this is 
the proposal from Joe Simon since he put a proposal in with OpenICC for a 
CUPS/Oyranos/KolorManager integration project and I had encouraged him to 
submit the same proposal to LinuxFoundation/OpenPrinting as well.

For Till's information.  Joe has done GSoC projects with OpenICC in 2007 and 
2008 and both projects were successful.  So he is a known quantity that we 
have worked with in the past.  In 2008 he wrote KolorManager which is a KDE4 
color management system setting applet that uses Oyranos as it's back end.  
This applet currently supports CM configuration for monitors (the only devices 
currently supported by Oyranos) and has stubs in place for other devices like 
printers, scanners and cameras. KolorManager is currently in the playground 
area of KDE svn.  So he is already very familiar with some of the applications 
that are involved in his proposal.  

In addition if this project is selected by either OpenPrinting or OpenICC we 
will likely need mentors from both OpenICC as well as CUPS (or someone else 
from the printer side) to help with this project.  I don't think that this 
needs to be formal (IE. I don't think everyone involved needs to registered as 
a mentor with Google) but I think that there needs to be a commitment from 
both groups to work with Joe if his project is selected by either 
organization. 

Hal

>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Title:  	 Printer configuration backend for Oyranos
> Student: 	joe simon
> Mentor: 	No mentor assigned
> Possible Mentors: 	None
> Abstract:
> This project will help extend printer color profile capabilities for
> Oyranos, a Color Management System (CMS) that allows users to configure
> ICC profiles. At the moment, CUPS has a workable but limited solution
> for configuring ICC profiles associated with printing devices. By
> modifying Oyranos to receive profile data from CUPS, it is possible to
> utilize a more customizable printer pipelining system for Linux, as well
> as enhance Kolor Manager (which relies on Oyranos as a backend).
> Content:
>
> My name is Joseph Simon and I am a CS student attending a community
> college in California, while taking upper division computer science
> courses at Chico State University through an online concurrent
> enrollment program.  I am in my early twenties and living in the San
> Francisco Bay Area, where I was raised for most of my life (even though
> my birthplace was in the Philippines).  Computers have always had a
> special place in my heart, although it wasn't until I got into college
> that I really started to appreciate them through programming.
>
> Since I use Linux for most of my programming work at school, I mainly
> stick with coding in that environment (along with using a simple text
> editor).  I regularly program with Java and C/C++, although Perl and
> python are languages that I am not too familiar with.  In the expected
> skills section of the proposal, I am able to communicate ideas in a
> 'faceless' environment on-line, and am able to program using portable
> plain C code.
>
> In the past, I have worked alongside the OpenICC organization in
> successfully completing two GSOC projects: one involving the improvement
> of Hal's code for Lprof in the 2007 GSOC, and another project in 2008
> involving the creation of a system-wide color management frontend for
> KDE-Linux (called "Kolor Manager"*), using Oyranos as a backend.
> Outside of working on programming assignments in school, both those
> Summer of Code projects were actually my first exposures in programming
> actual OSS code.
>
> Regarding the project itself, I would like to achieve two main goals:
>
>     1.
>
>        Have CUPS functionality integrated with Oyranos.
>     2.
>
>        Integrate the printer-enabled Oyranos with Kolor Manager. (A
> slight extension of the original proposal.)
>
> I chose this idea because being able to work with printer profiles is
> something that is very much needed for open source color management.
> Oyranos is able to fully transport monitor profile data between itself
> and KM at this time.  Helping write the code so that the Oyranos is able
> to also receive printer profiles will not only improve the functionality
> of Kolor Manager, but the entire open-source printer pipeline scheme.
> Having worked with the Oyranos code in the past, as well as implementing
> snippets of the CUPS API in KM, I feel that I am the most qualified to
> tackle this particular project.
>
> In trying to work with a seemingly long (but in reality, short) three
> month period, I developed a basic roadmap for scheduling this project.
> Much of the project will rely on getting the backend updated, making it
> is necessary to plan out CUPS/Oyranos solutions before GSOC officially
> begins. An OpenPrinting Summit will take place in April, which means
> working closely with members who will have attended the summit will be
> beneficial for additional project input. Researching and figuring out
> the best way to leverage the CUPS API with Oyranos during the interim
> period will make planning the three months of coding much easier and if
> possible, will result in an early head start of the project.  The
> expected commitment for this will be a third of a full-time schedule,
> since this is around my school year and finals.
>
> If the two main goals are completed within the project time frame, we
> can consider working on a tertiary goal of a general update for Kolor
> Manager. By updating the code and adding new features to the GUI, we can
> expect Kolor Manager to be promoted to a level above the beta KDE
> “playground” status.
>
> When there are some coding issues or unexpected bugs that occur after
> GSOC is over, I will try my hardest dto find time in the weekends to
> solve them (as school will be back in session by then).  But overall,
> the majority of my summer will comply with a full schedule and that no
> day will be without something that is accomplished in the project,
> whether big or small.
>
> *For a link to the original abstract of my Kolor Manager project and
> sample code, please see the additional info link.
> Additional info: 	http://code.google.com/soc/2008/openicc/about.html
>
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