It might be a little early to pose this topic for a project in GSoC but I had an idea in my mind for automated timetable generation. I read the roadmap and it says moodle has already planned for a timetable generation mechanism but I couldn't found any details on that.
I have read few papers on it as well and in fact have implemented one of them just testing it these days. But that covers only few things and not a method that could cover multiple schools/institutions/universities at a time. Some constraints would work for one and some for others and as you move along you’ll tend to have different constraints at different regions.
So, there should be a mechanism that could accommodate most of the regions and universities and for that there should be some sort of a constraint builder. Every client would build constraints as they require and create a timetable of their own.
I was wondering if this idea of timetable generation really strikes you guys we can work it out.
