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Google, Summer of Code, is a very wonderful idea for the |
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Open Source Community: |
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http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2014 |
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No doubt many are scheming as to what would be good project ideas. |
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Many really good ideas come from the rank and file of users. |
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(Gmane.org is back online)..... |
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Those (gifted? fledgling_gifted) often code good ideas directly. |
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I think now is the time to have a robust (community) discussion |
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on what the users of this list think would be good ideas |
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for GSOC projects, which are Gentoo centric. My experiences with |
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ALL current search engines, is there is quite a lot of low_quality |
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results; which may be a direct result of the masses of those |
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folks trying to learn/use unix/linux/gentoo by poorly formed |
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google (et. al.) searches. Those low quality efforts statistically |
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stack up against those few robustly accurate searches (from folks |
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like the users of this list) so as to contaiminate search engines |
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by the sheer number of poorly formed search engine efforts. I.E. |
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it's not the fault of the search engine(?)..... |
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So, Naturally, here is my idea. Collectively, if you look at this list |
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archive and other such gentoo-centric resources, there is a wealth |
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of good information that traverses our paths, and is then subsequently |
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burried into the annals of lifeless data, only occasionally pinged by |
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exasperating google searches, or gleaned from the multitude of records we |
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each privately maintain. |
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So, some sort of tool/app/parser that can glean information from the |
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various gentoo-centric resources and store the data for later searching |
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would be useful. Then a variety of experimental front ends could be |
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tested (or developed anew) to query that data with relevant searches |
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and very targeted searches. |
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By limiting the focus to all things Gentoo, we could serve ourselves |
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up crudely basic, but highly valuable information specific to the |
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Gentoo-centric paramenters that one uses for this "in-house" database. This |
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effort would mostly priortize the data returned in searches by some |
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sort of *quality metric*. For example it could be simply that the most |
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experienced dev would rate a "*100" (times 100) multiplier on the quality of |
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their searches. Recognized power users might rate a "*2"5 rating. Ordinary |
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folks a *1 rating on quality. This system would not even have to be open to |
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the rank and file internet, except as a source of data returned to search |
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engines like google, for example. |
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Other distros could eventually do the same thing, and then Google could |
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probe these databases, gaining specific user-community preferences |
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of excellent quality (accuracy) search-data from folks steeped in all |
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things Gentoo. |
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Basically, a schemea is developed that allows the strongest of the Gentoo |
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community to radically improve the quality of gentoo-specific searches, |
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with very little efforts. For the devs and such, it could merely be |
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a front-end to their own google searches. Folks would not have to |
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use this front-end, if they do not want to. |
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So, what is your idea for GSOC_2014? |
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http://wiki.gentoo.org/index.php?title=Google_Summer_of_Code/2013/Ideas |