Hi Larry, I appreciate the feedback!
It’s really good to know about the in-progress ICAR distribution. It looks like work stalled on that feature so finishing it up would be another good objective early in the GSoC project.
I put together the proposal write up. Appreciably, there isn’t much time left in the formal application period so if no one has time to take a look, it’s all good. However, I think we could just work on refining the scope informally in the next month or so and I could start work off on the right foot.