Yuri Astrakhan wrote:
Brion and Ben,
User NicoT ( http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:NicoT ) contacted me about helping to develop the query API as part of Google's SoC. He outlined some of the goals for the API on his page (above), and has been actively looking at the code and communicating over an IM. Even though API might be less important than, lets say rich editor or a new parser code, it should still be considered as a valuable proposition, especially if a value-add applications can be developed on top of basic method calls.
It's certainly valuable, but I don't think it fits within the Summer of Code framework, which requires the students to do their own work rather than collaborating in groups with the outside.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)