Re: Question regarding gSoc 2024
Dear Werner, I'm quite sorry for bothering you - I've drafted a quick update of gsoc.html to notice FreeType project is absent in GSoC 2024. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freetype/freetype-web/-/merge_requests/14 Please could you check? Regards, mpsuzuki On 2024/02/22 15:37, suzuki toshiya wrote: Dear Brad, Thank you for reminding that. I would take a look, we should not the potential contributors confused... Regards, mpsuzuki On 2024/02/22 15:24, Brad Neimann wrote: Hi Suzuki, This email prompted me to check the official GSoC website. It still lists FreeType as a participating organisation, with a link to the 2023 projects webpage. Should this perhaps be changed? Regards, Brad On 22/2/24 17:10, suzuki toshiya wrote: Dear Nitish, I'm sorry, Werner and me are hard to participate to GSoC 2024. I've not heard from Alexei whether he can or he will, but I guess the FreeType project would be unable to have a project in GSoC 2024. -- I don't know any existing modern communication channels for young people, like Discord or Slack. Do you know any existing channel which you want the developers to check the discussion? Regards, mpsuzuki On 2024/02/22 8:10, Nitish Jha wrote: Hello everyone, I'm Nitish, a computer science student from India. I'm eager to contribute to FreeType for Google Summer of Code 2024, and I have a few questions. As I was exploring the idea list, I noticed that the build system project was listed as an idea for GSoC 23. I'm interested in this project, but I'm uncertain if the ideas listed on https://freetype.org/gsoc.html are intended for GSoC 24. At the top of the page, it states, "The FreeType project participates in Google Summer of Code 2023. Here is our list of possible projects." If these ideas are not for GSoC 24, could you please direct me to where I can find the ideas for GSoC 24? Additionally, I'm curious if there are any communication channels like Discord or Slack available for FreeType, where contributors can discuss project ideas and collaborate effectively. Thank you for your assistance.
Re: Question regarding gSoc 2024
Hello Nitish, > As I was exploring the idea list, I noticed that the build system > project was listed as an idea for GSoC 23. I'm interested in this > project, but I'm uncertain if the ideas listed on > https://freetype.org/gsoc.html are intended for GSoC 24. At the top > of the page, it states, "The FreeType project participates in Google > Summer of Code 2023. Here is our list of possible projects." If > these ideas are not for GSoC 24, could you please direct me to where > I can find the ideas for GSoC 24? The ideas list hasn't been updated yet, sorry. > Additionally, I'm curious if there are any communication channels > like Discord or Slack available for FreeType, where contributors can > discuss project ideas and collaborate effectively. For the FreeType community we exclusively use the 'freetype-devel' e-mail list. Werner
Re: Question regarding gSoc 2024
Dear Brad, Thank you for reminding that. I would take a look, we should not the potential contributors confused... Regards, mpsuzuki On 2024/02/22 15:24, Brad Neimann wrote: Hi Suzuki, This email prompted me to check the official GSoC website. It still lists FreeType as a participating organisation, with a link to the 2023 projects webpage. Should this perhaps be changed? Regards, Brad On 22/2/24 17:10, suzuki toshiya wrote: Dear Nitish, I'm sorry, Werner and me are hard to participate to GSoC 2024. I've not heard from Alexei whether he can or he will, but I guess the FreeType project would be unable to have a project in GSoC 2024. -- I don't know any existing modern communication channels for young people, like Discord or Slack. Do you know any existing channel which you want the developers to check the discussion? Regards, mpsuzuki On 2024/02/22 8:10, Nitish Jha wrote: Hello everyone, I'm Nitish, a computer science student from India. I'm eager to contribute to FreeType for Google Summer of Code 2024, and I have a few questions. As I was exploring the idea list, I noticed that the build system project was listed as an idea for GSoC 23. I'm interested in this project, but I'm uncertain if the ideas listed on https://freetype.org/gsoc.html are intended for GSoC 24. At the top of the page, it states, "The FreeType project participates in Google Summer of Code 2023. Here is our list of possible projects." If these ideas are not for GSoC 24, could you please direct me to where I can find the ideas for GSoC 24? Additionally, I'm curious if there are any communication channels like Discord or Slack available for FreeType, where contributors can discuss project ideas and collaborate effectively. Thank you for your assistance.
Re: Question regarding gSoc 2024
(Not official) some of the freetype gsoc ideas are fairly long-term, and if it isn't done yet, then it is available. Specifically, I am not aware of any build system changes in the past 12 months. You are welcomed to come up with your project ideas, not necessarily need to be on any official lists. What's wrong with the mailing list archive which isn't "where contributors can discuss project ideas and collaborate effectively"? It is threaded, searchable, and it goes back for decades. FreeType 2 itself is about 2 decades old, with another decade before that, for FreeType 1... Discord and Slack are at most about a decade old, I think. FreeType 2 is also older than github/gitlab and older than git (the tool) itself by quite a lot, so you probably will find that freetype development does not quite follow the pull/merge requests model popularised by github/gitlab either... You can confirm definitively that a gsoc 2023 idea wasn't taken up by browsing or searching through the mailing list archive. On Thursday, 22 February 2024 at 05:11:38 GMT, Nitish Jha wrote: Hello everyone, I'm Nitish, a computer science student from India. I'm eager to contribute to FreeType for Google Summer of Code 2024, and I have a few questions. As I was exploring the idea list, I noticed that the build system project was listed as an idea for GSoC 23. I'm interested in this project, but I'm uncertain if the ideas listed on https://freetype.org/gsoc.html are intended for GSoC 24. At the top of the page, it states, "The FreeType project participates in Google Summer of Code 2023. Here is our list of possible projects." If these ideas are not for GSoC 24, could you please direct me to where I can find the ideas for GSoC 24? Additionally, I'm curious if there are any communication channels like Discord or Slack available for FreeType, where contributors can discuss project ideas and collaborate effectively. Thank you for your assistance.
Re: Question regarding gSoc 2024
Hi Suzuki, This email prompted me to check the official GSoC website. It still lists FreeType as a participating organisation, with a link to the 2023 projects webpage. Should this perhaps be changed? Regards, Brad On 22/2/24 17:10, suzuki toshiya wrote: Dear Nitish, I'm sorry, Werner and me are hard to participate to GSoC 2024. I've not heard from Alexei whether he can or he will, but I guess the FreeType project would be unable to have a project in GSoC 2024. -- I don't know any existing modern communication channels for young people, like Discord or Slack. Do you know any existing channel which you want the developers to check the discussion? Regards, mpsuzuki On 2024/02/22 8:10, Nitish Jha wrote: Hello everyone, I'm Nitish, a computer science student from India. I'm eager to contribute to FreeType for Google Summer of Code 2024, and I have a few questions. As I was exploring the idea list, I noticed that the build system project was listed as an idea for GSoC 23. I'm interested in this project, but I'm uncertain if the ideas listed on https://freetype.org/gsoc.html are intended for GSoC 24. At the top of the page, it states, "The FreeType project participates in Google Summer of Code 2023. Here is our list of possible projects." If these ideas are not for GSoC 24, could you please direct me to where I can find the ideas for GSoC 24? Additionally, I'm curious if there are any communication channels like Discord or Slack available for FreeType, where contributors can discuss project ideas and collaborate effectively. Thank you for your assistance.
Re: Question regarding gSoc 2024
Dear Nitish, I'm sorry, Werner and me are hard to participate to GSoC 2024. I've not heard from Alexei whether he can or he will, but I guess the FreeType project would be unable to have a project in GSoC 2024. -- I don't know any existing modern communication channels for young people, like Discord or Slack. Do you know any existing channel which you want the developers to check the discussion? Regards, mpsuzuki On 2024/02/22 8:10, Nitish Jha wrote: Hello everyone, I'm Nitish, a computer science student from India. I'm eager to contribute to FreeType for Google Summer of Code 2024, and I have a few questions. As I was exploring the idea list, I noticed that the build system project was listed as an idea for GSoC 23. I'm interested in this project, but I'm uncertain if the ideas listed on https://freetype.org/gsoc.html are intended for GSoC 24. At the top of the page, it states, "The FreeType project participates in Google Summer of Code 2023. Here is our list of possible projects." If these ideas are not for GSoC 24, could you please direct me to where I can find the ideas for GSoC 24? Additionally, I'm curious if there are any communication channels like Discord or Slack available for FreeType, where contributors can discuss project ideas and collaborate effectively. Thank you for your assistance.
