Google Summer of Code 2018

Check the offical GSoC page for general information such as schedule and requirements to participate in the program.

We have applied: more information on February 12th!

Tips

We will prefer students who have shown to have the skills needed to contribute to Nextcloud. That means - if you've successfully managed to do an issue labeled with good first issue , bugfix or other minor change to Nextcloud and have gone through the process of integrating this at least once, we will know you've got a development setup and are capable of working with our process. We thus suggest to get started at https://nextcloud.com/contribute/

Project Ideas

Here we'd like to put a list of projects we suggest (GSoC projects are restricted to coding):

Desktop

Server

• Federated Calendar and Contacts sharing - #1440 (mentor: Georg Ehrke - georg@nextcloud.com, Björn Schießle - bjoern@nextcloud.com)
• Calendar and Contacts Trashbin - #1662 (mentor: Georg Ehrke - georg@nextcloud.com)
• Expose subscribed webcal calendars via CalDAV - #1497 (mentor: Georg Ehrke - georg@nextcloud.com)

Android

• Chat support for Nextcloud Talk Android app (mentor: Mario Danic - mario@nextcloud.com, Tobias Kaminsky - tobias@nextcloud.com)
• Full blown 2-way-sync for Nextcloud Android app (mentor: , Mario Danic - mario@nextcloud.com, Tobias Kaminsky - tobias@nextcloud.com)
• Video streaming (mentor: Tobias Kaminsky - tobias@nextcloud.com, Mario Danic - mario@nextcloud.com)
• Enhance Tablet support (mentor: Tobias Kaminsky - tobias@nextcloud.com, Mario Danic - mario@nextcloud.com)
• Gallery view instead of video & photo section (mentor: Tobias Kaminsky - tobias@nextcloud.com, Mario Danic - mario@nextcloud.com)
• Switch completely to glide as internal caching (mentor: Tobias Kaminsky - tobias@nextcloud.com, Mario Danic - mario@nextcloud.com)
• Offline-Support (mentor: Tobias Kaminsky - tobias@nextcloud.com, Mario Danic - mario@nextcloud.com)
• Full folder upload (mentor: Tobias Kaminsky - tobias@nextcloud.com, Mario Danic - mario@nextcloud.com)
• Support file versioning (mentor: Tobias Kaminsky - tobias@nextcloud.com, Mario Danic - mario@nextcloud.com)
• Support trash bin (mentor: Tobias Kaminsky - tobias@nextcloud.com, Mario Danic - mario@nextcloud.com)
• See many other ideas in github

iOS

• New function: allow plain text editing for markdown (.md) #471
• [e2ee] Exchange 12 word secret via QR code #464
• See many ideas in github

Apps

Calendar

• Free/Busy Management (mentor: Georg Ehrke - georg@nextcloud.com)

Deck (PHP/JS/AngularJS)

• CalDAV plugin for managing projects via external apps #15 (mentor: Julius Haertl - julius@nextcloud.com)
• File attachments for cards #109(mentor: Julius Haertl - julius@nextcloud.com)
• Advanced card filtering #289 (mentor: Julius Haertl - julius@nextcloud.com)
• Relation management between cards #272 (mentor: Julius Haertl - julius@nextcloud.com)
• Different card types that support external data (mentor: Julius Haertl - julius@nextcloud.com)
• Find some other ideas in the github repo (mentor: Julius Haertl - julius@nextcloud.com)

Feel free to join our IRC channel #nextcloud-deck on freenode, if you have any questions or want to discuss about other project ideas.

Other

We do want to encourage you to come up with your own project ideas and discuss them with potential mentors. Please join us on IRC channel #nextcloud-dev at freenode or on our forums to discuss ideas.

Nextcloud coordinators

• Jos Poortvliet (@jospoortvliet)
• Nina Cercy (@NinaNC)

Nextcloud Mentors

• Julius Härtl (@juliushaertl)
• Camila Ayres (@camilasan)
• Roeland Jago Douma (@rullzer)
• Mario Danic (@mario) [Android (Nextcloud Talk and Nextcloud Files)]
• Tobias Kaminsky (@tobiaskaminsky) [Android]
• Björn Schießle (@schiessle)
• Georg Ehrke (@georgehrke)

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Students suggestions

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