• 07/01/2005 : New wiki page: WinLibre's Summer of Code Home
• 06/23/2005 : Final choice deadline (around 8 slots alowed to WinLibre)
• 06/22/2005 : Final Selection in the last 22 proposals set
• 06/18/2005 : I’m starting the review process : 113 proposals ...

Google is launching the summer of code program which sponsors students work on open-source projects during the summer.

The main WinLibre’s goal is to ease and develop the open source software distribution on Windows

• WinLibre is a rigorous selection of free, legal software for Windows 98, 2000, XP
• WinLibre packages this quality software in a complete and coherent product
• WinLibre software meets your essential needs : Office (word processor, spreadsheet, presentation), Internet (web, email, messaging), Multimedia (music, video), Create (drawing, music), Tools (file compression, antivirus)
• WinLibre automates and simplifies their installation

The goal is to give the average joe user an easy tool to choose, install and update a selected set of open source apps.

• Discuss the proposals on IRC : irc://irc.freenode.net/winlibre
• All code should be published under the GPL/LGPL or BSD/MIT licence.
• The development place will be http://sourceforge.net/projects/winlibre/

Here is a list of proposals for the WinLibre Project.

This is a WinLibre rewrite using :

• Python + WxPython
• cUrl
• XML files

This is a feasability test rewrite using :

• XulRunner+XUL GUI
• XPInstall
• XML files

Aim : To have a Mac OS Free sofware distrubtion like WinLibre is on windows.

• Python+ wxPython installer for Mac OS X
• Application selection and integration

The control center should have the following functionality’s :

• Launch every application from the winLibre suite.
• Display news items from the winLibre homepage ( rss feeds )
• Launch the update tool for the installed packages.
• Easy Wikipedia access
• Language : Python + WxPython

• Is a client/server application which queries an update server to check for new packages and if so downloads and installs them.
• The server would generate an XML file with all the new packages and here versions.
• this XML file should be made automatically or with a GUI Application. So that the maintainer has to put minimal effort inupdating the packages
• The client should be able to work completely automated. So no user input is required.
• it should be possible to add applications to your current configuration.
• The client should check for dependencies and try to resolve them by installing additional packages.
• the removal of packages should also be available from this tool. This would result into calling the Uninstall program of the requested package.
• Actually the update tool will work pretty much like debian’s apt-get, but with a nicer GUI.
• Language : Python + WxPython

• Implemement a way to handle a config file to drive silently the WinLibre Setup
• Write a config file editor (with a GUI)
• Language : Python + WxPython

Write a new, innovative multiplatform, windows compatible, easy to use desktop application

If you want to create a brand new, innovative application, write and submit a proposal.

Write a GUI to cdrtools to provide a free cd burning solution to Windows users.

• Easy and Straightforward to use
• Based on cdrtools : http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/cdrecord.html
  1. Drag’n Drop File Explorer GUI
  2. Easy Hardware Config
  3. Burning GUI
  4. ISO handling
• cdrtools should come prepackaged with the GUI
• Language : Python + WxPython

Write a new, innovative multiplatform, windows compatible, Game.

It will be included in the next WinLibre/Game pack.

Any idea ? Write and submit a proposal.