Developers, The submission deadline for the 2012 Google Summer of Code is fast approaching. This is an open call for mentor participation!
If you're interested in mentoring in GSoC and haven't done so before, you'll need to do two things: 1) Please add your name and background information to the bottom of our ideas page: http://brlcad.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/Project_Ideas 2) You'll need to go to http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2012 to log in, create your profile so you have a "link_id". That's basically your user id. Once you've done that or if you've been a mentor in the past, I encourage you to check over the existing GSoC documentation. It's all on the wiki so you can correct any mistakes you find or make additions right then and there: http://brlcad.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/ http://brlcad.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2012 http://brlcad.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/Project_Ideas This is probably the first year we'll already have had a decent number of project ideas spelled out, but you're welcome to add more. I would like to include the name(s) of mentors as another column, though, so students feel they can reach out to a specific person as a starting point. ANYONE in our community can be a mentor, regardless of being a "competent developer". That statement always comes up. You don't need to be intimately familiar with BRL-CAD to be a mentor. You need to be able to make sure students are making progress. We may even have a couple mentors this year from outside our community if we act as an umbrella org for one of our dependencies (such as SCL). This year, some changes to the program from last year: 1) I'm hoping to go BIG. A lot more students. Assuming we get qualified applicants, no more than two students per active mentor. That means probably 5-15 students. Last year was intentionally minimal, this year is intentionally more. 2) List mentors interested in project ideas. As mentioned above, this is simply listing mentors with individual ideas on the project ideas wiki page. It's not a commitment, but will help round out the proposal page and give students an initial point-of-contact. Feel free to go through the list now and add your name. 3) Prepare a VM image distribution. Basically, I'd like to make it as easy as possible to get a development environment of BRL-CAD up and running. That way, we can tell them to download Qemu or Virtual Box, download our image, and have everything they need. That's a BSD or Linux image with cmake and our other deps installed, BRL-CAD sources downloaded, precompiled in debug mode, preinstalled ready to run. Anyone interested in taking the lead on this? There's about two weeks before it's required. There you have it. Our initial org application is already in. I'll be polishing it up today. Any help scouring and improving our documentation will be certainly appreciated, especially rephrasing the long wordy bits into more concise information. Cheers! Sean ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ BRL-CAD Developer mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-devel
