GCodeIn Ideas
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Google Code In
This page is about ideas for the VideoLAN project for acceptance in the Google Code In 2010 program.
VideoLAN has been part of Google Summer of Code in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010.
Ideas for VideoLAN
Warning
This is a temporary page for listing ideas for Google Code-in tasks. The final tasks will be moved to melange, when needed.
VideoLAN Communication
VideoLAN flyer/poster
Category: Outreach
Description: the VideoLAN project needs a flyer for promotion
Outcome: a cool A5-sized flyer
Difficulty: medium
Tools: Image-Editing software
Time: 3days
Mentor: jpsaman
Wiki Orphans and Double tracking
Category: Documentation
Description: The wiki has too many orphaned pages and double redirected pages, they should be linked by other pages or marked for deletion, and redirects should be fixed
Outcome: Less orphaned pages
Difficulty: easy
Tools: a wiki account
Time: 4hours
Mentor: xtophe
Wiki short pages tracking
Area: VideoLAN communication
Category: Documentation
Description: The wiki has too many short pages, they should be improved, marked for deletion or merged with other pages
Outcome: Less short pages
Difficulty: easy
Tools: a wiki account
Time: 4hours
Mentor: xtophe
VLC
Create VLC videos for training
Category: Training
Description: Creation of youtube Videos of screencasts of VLC usage
This task can be divided in chunks of 5 videos
Outcome: VLC Youtube channels
Difficulty: easy
Tools: VLC
Time: 2 days
Mentor: jb
VLC users survey creation
Category: Outreach
Description: Creation of a survey for VLC users that we will put on the website
Outcome: Sending the survey to the VLC users
Difficulty: medium
Tools: text editor and web browser
Time: 5 days
Mentor: jb
VLC webplugin testpages
Category: Code
Description: This task is about updating the Html/CSS/JS script pages for the Webplugins
Outcome: Usable test pages for the VLC webplugins
Difficulty: hard
Tools: text editor and a browser
Time: 10 days
Mentor: jpsaman
VLC warnings cleanup
Category: Code
Description: This has for objective to delete a lot of warnings in C and C++ code when doing VLC compilation for Linux and Windows
Outcome: Less warnings in C and C++ code
Difficulty: hard
Tools: text editor and compilation toolchain
Time: 10 days
Mentor: ivoire
VLMC
VLMC UI testing
Category: Quality Assurance
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Mentor: Hugo
VLMC files testing
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Mentor: Hugo
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