Please add your suggestions for GSoC 2011 projects related to DSpace! If you are interested in mentoring, please let us know! Also, be sure to visit the listing of Past GSoC Project Ideas below, to see if anything there is still relevant.

In our DSpace Developers Meeting on March 30, 2011, the developers in attendance voted up/down various project ideas listed here. Based on general lack of interest & support, the following projects were REMOVED:

• "JSPUI Rewrite" project – This project idea has been replaced by the "WebMVC (Freemarker) UI" project (see below), which has the same goals.
• "Modular Configuration" project – it was determined this involved too many core infrastructure changes, which should be done by a core committer
• "MySQL Support" project – Although most are in favor of this project, it has a dependency on Refactoring the DSpace Domain Model (which is not yet completed)
• "Pluggable bitstream storage" project – concerns that this had too many dependencies. Also, Richard Rodgers is working on something similar which is almost ready to commit.

The full discussion of this meeting is logged in our IRC logs at: http://irclogs.duraspace.org/index.php?date=2011-03-30