Its time already !

You’re a computer science or engineering student, you love open source and would like to be involved in one of the greatest OSS projects of all time?

You’re lucky, the Google Summer of Code 2010 is starting and is a perfect moment to join the Eclipse community.

If you’re a committer you can throw your idea on the wiki page; if you’re a student, contact the development team or provide your own ideas.

I provided a few ideas; here are those that got most of the votes at Obeo:

• EMF Shell: This one is geekish — providing an environment with “shell-like” commands to manipulate models. One would expect wc to count model elements, grep to filter model elements, cd to move within models, ls, sed to substitute, and all the other commands which could be useful in this context. Haven’t you ever dreamed to filter the opened view of your e4-modeled workbench using grep?

Now that SWT-QT seems to be a reality, I can’t prevent myself from dreaming about a GEF port on QT. QT has amazing graphical capabilities and provides the best performance on every platform around. GEF is great, but is it ready for next-gen graphical modelers?

Go and have a look at the demos. That could be a game-changer for graphical modeling — let’s call it CuteGEF :)

Of course modeling in general, EMF Compare and Amalgam topics are on the wiki page; you have plenty of subjects to choose from!

Please, if you’re a student and are interested in participating in the GSOC, do not wait! Work with the projects to prepare your application!