Development/Summer of Code/2016

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Where to start

New to MetaBrainz?
List of MetaBrainz projects
New to MetaBrainz development and/or GSoC?
Getting started with GSoC
New to the idea of linked open data?
Linked open data article on wikipedia
Ready to apply?
GSoC applications @ community.metabrainz.org
Be aware of the content of our Development/Summer of Code/Application Template

Mentors

Mentor list
Name IRC nick Project
Robert Kaye ruaok AcousticBrainz, ListenBrainz, MusicBrainz
Michael Wiencek bitmap MusicBrainz
Alastair Porter alastairp AcousticBrainz, ListenBrainz
Ben Ockmore LordSputnik BookBrainz
Sean Burke Leftmost BookBrainz
Roman Tsukanov Gentlecat CritiqueBrainz, AcousticBrainz, ListenBrainz

Some potential mentors are listed by each project; this is far from a normative list, but it might give you somebody to ask about the project.

Note: Contacting the mentors privately (e.g., via e-mail or private IRC messages) will get you off to a very, very bad start in your relations with us and any application you send us is now almost definitely going to not get accepted.

About proposals

Before you dive in and send a proposal to us through Google, it's a good idea to take some time and learn about the MusicBrainz community. At MusicBrainz we pride ourselves for having a strong community - most of us know each other in some way, and some of us know each other face to face from development summits.

A good way to get a feel of this would be to talk about your ideas and proposals on IRC. However, starting off by sending private messages to potential mentors is not a good way to introduce yourself to the community. Please don't do that!

If you're not sure where to start, Development/Summer of Code/Getting started might help.


Projects

AcousticBrainz

AcousticBrainz logo small notext.png AcousticBrainz is our new project that crowdsources acoustic information for all music in the world and to make it available to the public. We already have low-level information about more than three million tracks. What we need is a good way for users and developers to interact with all this data and help improve algorithms that are used to analyze it.

It would suit someone with experience or an interest in machine learning algorithms, though the majority of the project will probably involve creating infrastructure around our existing algorithms.

Languages/skills: Python, PostgreSQL, Flask
Ideas page | Main page | Forums | Blog

BookBrainz

BookBrainz logo small notext.png BookBrainz is a database of book metadata.

This year we're interested in projects that help us get more data. The three suggested ideas to build proposals around are data importing, a web API and gamification of editing. Please see our sub-project ideas page for information on getting started and more details about the ideas themselves.

Top 3 Desired Skills: Node.js, Python, SQL
Ideas page | Main page | Forums

CritiqueBrainz

CritiqueBrainz logo small notext.png Fills the gap between music critics and raw data by providing a platform created for the sole purpose of Creative Commons licensed reviews.
Languages/skills: Python, Flask, SQL, PostgreSQL
Ideas page | Main page | Forums

ListenBrainz

ListenBrainz logo small notext.png An open source music website that allows users to import their listen history. One of the goals is for this data to be used for building open music recommendation systems.
Languages/skills: Python
Ideas page | Main page

MusicBrainz

MusicBrainz logo small notext.png A community-maintained open source music encyclopedia that collects music metadata and makes it available to the public.
Languages/skills: JavaScript (React), Perl, Python, PostgreSQL, SQL
Ideas page | Main page | Forums