[Advocacy] Ideas for Google Summer of Code projects

[Joshua Root]

Sending ideas here per Monty's request:

>10:36 <@xiphmont> Oh, getting back to Summer of Code:  The idea is 
>Google will pay students $4500 to apprentice themselves to an OSS 
>project.  Could be quite a boon, and we should think of ways it 
>would be useful to Xiph.
>10:37 <@xiphmont> But for now, just think.  Send mail with ideas 
>(after reading about it on the google site)

Link to the site: <http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html>

I think the Xiph QuickTime plugin described on the wiki[1] would be a 
good one. It would be especially timely given that the plugin that is 
widely used to play Vorbis files in iTunes[2] has stopped working 
entirely under QuickTime 7.

The bitrate peeling and low-bitrate encoding improvement projects 
could also be good for SoC (though I admit I have no idea how much 
work those would actually require.)

[1] <http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/Bounties#Xiph_Quicktime_Plugin>
[2] <http://qtcomponents.sourceforge.net/>