Diaspora at RailsGirls Summer of Code

As proposed in the mailing list, I move the subject here to loom.io

You guys might know the RailsGirls initiative, which aims to teach girls Ruby and Rails.
Well, RailsGirls is starting a new project called RailsGirls Summer of Code, which aims to bring the students into open source projects.

We are looking for open source projects (something with Ruby and Rails), a mentor per project (who really knows his/ her way around the project/ code base) and a coach who helps the student with this goals. It is compareable to Google Summer of Code, but with beginners instead.
If my description is a little too confusing, check out our website http://bit.ly/rgsoc) and the projects list on github (https://github.com/RailsGirlsBerlin/summer-of-code/wiki/Project-ideas).
Just to drop some names of projects that will work with us: Sinatra, Rubinius and still to be confirmed Rails and Puma. But we just started, so bear with us ;)
The schedule is flexible but the "summer" would be from July to September, 3 months during which the students will get paid. Student application will open some time in May.

Anyway, one of the initiators approached me concerning Diaspora. It would be cool to have Diaspora listed on the projects page, especially because its concept is easily grasped (social network vs Ruby implementation, if you know what I mean ;)) and suited for a beginner with some help from the coach.
Plus, it could bring some attention to Diaspora itself :D

If you think if Diaspora is suited and if you have someone in mind as a mentor or maybe a coach, you can apply via the forms on the website (http://bit.ly/rgsoc).
As for possible goals, Raven already proposed the following:
* (REST) API
* separation of federation into a layer
* "seed migration" - moving your account to another server
* more useful admin backend
* ...

• writing/updating documentation
• making how-to videos
• ...