[summerofcode] Project proposal

[Johann C. Rocholl]

Hi all,

this is a shameless plug for my project.
But I am also looking for a mentor for Google's Summer of Code.

The project is an open-source system for distributed automatic
production of browser screenshots, and it is already in public beta.

http://www.browsershots.org/

Here is a detailed roadmap for my SoC proposal.

http://www.browsershots.org/doc/roadmap/

Why would I post this to summerofcode at python.org?
- First of all, shameless plug.
- I have applied with Google as a mentoring organization, but they
  have very many applications.
- The server and the distributed screenshot factories are written
  completely in Python, except for the multi-page merging, which is in
  Ada for performance, and the queries to the MySQL database, which
  are in SQL, and some extra tools (bash or Makefile).
- Some of the work that I plan on doing will directly benefit Python
  libraries. For example, it seems that I will have to patch urllib2
  to use HTTPS via CONNECT through a web proxy like Squid.
- One of the packages I release with the project is called liteweb and
  is a very very ligthweight collection of utilities for mod_python.
- I have followed the python-list for a while, and I like the Python
  community.
- Perhaps somebody is interested in mentoring this project?

If you are interested, please let me know.
I can also send a copy of my original SoC application.

Cheers,
Johann