On Mar 20, 2015, at 9:51 AM, Vicky <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all!
> 
> I joined to this mailing list because I am a CAD user and I like FOSS, I 
> would 
> like to contribute to BRL-CAD by participating to GSoC 2015.

Welcome Vicky!

>> From the ideas list I liked more Benchmark Performance Database and Material 
> Database, I like web development but I usually don't have much time to expand 
> my knowledge, and this would be a very good occasion for me to both 
> contribute 
> to the community, learn more interesting stuff, know better BRL-CAD 
> community, 
> and have the possibility to do this gorgeous stuff full time this summer :)

For some projects that have been worked on previously, you’ll want to make sure 
you check on the prior efforts to see where things left off.  Your proposal 
should be a continuation/improvement of the work to date, usually with an 
emphasis on “finishing” the work, adding production quality, improving 
usability, etc.  This also means taking time to become familiarized with any 
existing code, actually installing, and testing things out.

All prior GSoC projects are on our website: 

http://brlcad.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2014
http://brlcad.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2013
http://brlcad.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2012
http://brlcad.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2011
http://brlcad.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2009
http://brlcad.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2008

Those are also GREAT resources for seeing examples of other GSoC proposals 
we’ve accepted in the past, the level of detail we expect to see, and summaries 
for how those projects went.

> I have recently completed Aerospace Engineering and I am student of 
> Electronic 
> Engineering right now, as hobby I have done web development and design, so I 
> know HTML, CSS, JavaScript and various web development technology such as 
> JQuery and AJAX, while I have basic knowledge of SQL, Python and PHP.

I sent a message just yesterday that you might want to look up on the mailing 
list archives (on sourceforge).  I gave an overview of our project priorities 
and mentioned a web application topic that might be of interest — implementing 
an interface for testing repository commit ranges.

> I would know if those ideas would be very integrated in BRL-CAD wiki or the 
> plan is to keep them as stand alone websites?

It’s good when projects integrate with existing infrastructure, but it’s even 
more important that projects get taken to completion so they can actually be 
put to use and remain maintainable by others.  However this is accomplished is 
often secondary if the production quality is there.

Cheers!
Sean



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