On Mar 12, 2012, at 7:14 AM, 杨昊 wrote: > Hi everyone!
Welcome, Yang! > I guess no one can be newer than me in the mailing list currently. I > subscribed and 2hours later I received this mail :) > > I'm a Chinese student in Tsinghua Univ, Beijing. I'm in the CG&CAD institute > and currently working on 3D model reconstruction from CAD drawings. I'm good > at C/C++, Qt, OpenGL, while not know much about Ogre or Tcl/Tk yet (I'm eager > to learn)... > > I've read the the introduction pages and downloaded the latest source (and > build & compiled), and learned the general objectives and structure of > BRL-CAD. Since my work in the institute mainly deals with graphics and CAD > things, I'm already familiar with some algorithms like CSG Boolean operation > and raytracing etc. Outstanding. It sounds like your background is an excellent fit and your first steps are spot on. > While the unfamiliarity with the code may be my weakest point, I'll read more > asap to get a deeper understanding. > > I'd like to apply for the GUI or scientific projects. Please tell me if > there's more things I need to do. Any advice is greatly appreciated ! The one other item that is technically optional this year but highly recommended for strong candidates is to submit a patch. Something that demonstrates your ability to read/write code, even if it's something simple. It doesn't have to be related to what you'd be doing for GSoC, either. It can be a simple bug fix, optimization, minor feature, etc. A code patch is usually the deciding factor if there are two students competing for a remaining slot. Or if there's a student with a patch and one without, the one that submitted a useful patch will generally get selected. Some places to look would be to either just run the tools until you get something to crash or misbehave (and then fix that), consult the BUGS or TODO files, or pull one of the ideas from http://brlcad.org/wiki/Contributor_Quickies If you join the IRC channel, we can interactively try to narrow down on what projects are of higher interest. I usually suggest students put their draft project proposals up on our wiki so we can provide feedback early on and throughout. Thanks again for the introduction! Anyone else care to introduce themselves? Cheers! Sean ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 _______________________________________________ BRL-CAD Developer mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-devel
