Summer coding ideas for 2012/Students Idea

If a students is willing to suggest an idea he/she can use this page instead of the main ideas page.

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The main GSoC 2012 idea page can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_coding_ideas_for_2012. Once an idea is accepted by a mentor, the idea will be moved on to the main idea page.

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Fedora Spins and remixes

Fedora On-Demand Build Service

Status: Proposed

Summary of idea: The idea is to make an on-demand Web-based build service (similar to Open Suse Build Service and Slax) which users/developers can use to make custom Fedora based distributions. The service should also also have a REST API (or similar).

Contacts: Amit Saha

Notes: Is anyone interested to discuss this and willing to mentor me? (Is there any existing effort attempting to do this? Any cons? )