[Openchemistry-developers] MolView for GSoC 2017

[Herman Bergwerf]

Hi,

I am Herman Bergwerf, developer of http://molview.org. I have a fairly
simple question. Would it be possible to sign up my development on
molview.org for GSoC under the Open Chemistry organization?

I developed MolView in highschool and have been looking into improving it.
Last year I did a failed attempt at building an architecture from scratch.
Basically I started of a little too enthusiastic and wrote a completely
modular, message based frontend architecture that was intended to be super
modular. But after almost a year of working on this I decided I was going
nuts and discarded it. However a lot is to be done. I almost get emails
weekly about people enthusiastic about MolView or requesting new features.
An old roadmap of ideas is here:
https://github.com/molview/molview-1st-gen/wiki/Roadmap. I created mockups
for a new, even more immersive user interface more than a year ago (
http://blog.molview.org/posts/2015/07/23/material-design/). I abandoned
development on MolView almost a year ago in favor of working on some other
projects (also OSS). However I still retain interest in MolView. It is open
source (AGPL) and so far developed on 0$ funding (except for my own funding
to pay for hosting, and I hate ads so never added them). In the past 3/4
years MolView has been visited over 400.000 times by more than 230.000
unique users. In the past years I developed an interest in the Dart
language. I would love to rebuild MolView from scratch in Dart,
implementing the new user interface (as shown in the mockups), along with a
set of new features (more embedding options, OBJ export for 3D printing,
DNA sequence viewer, etc.), and drastically improving the code (compared to
now I was a very bad coder back in highschool ;-D).

I know MolView is not officially a open chemistry project (I'm not sure how
the organization works), but it would be really awesome if I can work on
MolView this summer while also making some money. If this is possible I can
write a proposal with a list of technologies, the basic architecture, and
an initial set of features.

Thanks!
Herman Bergwerf
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