Call for OSPP 2023 Projects

[PsiACE]

Hello, OpenDAL community members!

We are excited to announce that we are participating in the Open Source Promotion Plan (OSPP) 2023, a summer program that encourages students to contribute to open source projects. We are looking for project ideas that can benefit the OpenDAL community and the open source ecosystem.

Currently, we have 2 project slots available.

If you have a project idea that you would like to propose, please comment below this post with the following information:

• Project Name: A brief and catchy title for your project.
• Project Description: A detailed explanation of what your project aims to achieve, why it is important or useful, and how it relates to OpenDAL or open source in general.
• Difficulty: A rough estimate of how challenging your project is, based on the skills and experience required. You can use one of these levels: Basic, Advanced.
• Project Output Requirements: A list of deliverables or outcomes that you expect from the project, such as code, documentation, tests, demos, etc.
• Project Technical Requirements: A list of technologies, tools, frameworks, languages, or platforms that you plan to use or learn for the project.

Please note that submitting a project idea does not guarantee that you will be accepted as a candidate for the OSPP program. At this stage, we are only collecting and discussing potential projects. This is not a formal application process. The final selection of candidates and mentors will be based on the quality of the project proposals, the availability of mentors, and the compatibility of skills and interests. We will inform you of the next steps and the application process once we have finalized the list of projects. Thank you for your interest and participation!

We encourage you to be creative and innovative with your project ideas, but also realistic and feasible. We also welcome collaboration and feedback from other community members, so feel free to comment on each other’s proposals and offer suggestions or support.

The deadline for discussing project ideas is April 22th, 2023. Because we need to finish the submission on the April 26th. We look forward to hearing from you and working with you on some amazing open source projects!

What is Open Source Promotion Plan?

Open Source Promotion Plan(OSPP) is a summer program organized by Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences and long-term supported by Open Source Software Supply Chain Promotion Plan. It aims to encourage college students to actively participate in the development and maintenance of open source software and promote the vigorous development of excellent open source software community. Learn More: https://summer-ospp.ac.cn/

[Xuanwo]

OpenDAL has evolved beyond being just a Rust core library. There are numerous areas to explore.

• services: Adding more services support like gdrive, onedrive and so on.
• layers: Adding more layers to enhance more features, including chaos and error injection.
• bindings: Expand rust power to other languages like lua, zig and so on.
• integrations: Integrate opendal to more ecosystems like object_store or vfs
• applications: Building applications upon opendal like oli, ofs (OpenDAL powered FUSE) or oay (OpenDAL powered sidecar/proxy).

New ideas are always welcome!

[xyjixyjixyji]

A C++ binding would be useful since OpenDAL is mainly used by data-intensive applications, which are mostly written in C/C++/Rust nowadays. Moreover, a C++ binding might introduce namespace and better generics, which mitigate the problems we met in implementing the C binding.

[Xuanwo]

I prefer to have a working c binding first 🤣

[xyjixyjixyji]

I prefer to have a working c binding first 🤣

Agreed lol, just an idea along with implementing C binding 🤣🤣🤣

[Xuanwo]

I don't think it's a big issue. While we could certainly improve our coding practices, the most important thing is ensuring that it functions properly. Changing into C++ doesn't make things better (

[Young-Flash]

services: Adding more services support like gdrive, onedrive and so on.

I think it's good, I may try to apply if there is a slot for it.

[Young-Flash]

When will the project information be released?

[Xuanwo]

Maybe tomorrow! Our dear @PsiACE is working on this.

[suyanhanx]

We have released information about the projects! Please see #2154