Re: ApplyYourDLang - A YouTube channel for D introduction videos
On 02/27/2014 12:51 AM, deadalnix wrote: On Sunday, 23 February 2014 at 22:07:39 UTC, simendsjo wrote: The cat's out of the bag.. http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1ypg91/getting_started_with_d_and_vibed/ We didn't want to announce the site before we had more videos, but it has found its way to reddits frontpage. Watching it right now. Basic but really nice ! Thanks. Aimed at beginners to D. Only the first video might be of interest to people here, the rest are even more basic and probably better suited for people that doesn't know much programming at all.
Re: ApplyYourDLang - A YouTube channel for D introduction videos
On Thursday, 27 February 2014 at 08:15:26 UTC, simendsjo wrote: On 02/27/2014 12:51 AM, deadalnix wrote: On Sunday, 23 February 2014 at 22:07:39 UTC, simendsjo wrote: The cat's out of the bag.. http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1ypg91/getting_started_with_d_and_vibed/ We didn't want to announce the site before we had more videos, but it has found its way to reddits frontpage. Watching it right now. Basic but really nice ! Thanks. Aimed at beginners to D. Only the first video might be of interest to people here, the rest are even more basic and probably better suited for people that doesn't know much programming at all. keep 'em coming.
Re: DigitalMars' GSoC application has been rejected
On Thursday, 27 February 2014 at 02:34:53 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Unfortunately we won't participate in GSoC this year. The decision was not surprising - our application has been rejected. Sadly there are lots of things we could have done better. Our application has been a low-priority side job for Walter and myself and as such its quality has suffered greatly. GSoC applications are a great example of things where one or more community members can have a large impact on D's well being by offloading a parallelizable work from the two of us. Please consider taking a leadership role for GSoC 2015. Andrei How much time did you spend on the application this year? How much time do you think would be needed to put together a good quality proposal?
Re: DigitalMars' GSoC application has been rejected
On 2/27/14, 10:10 AM, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: On Thursday, 27 February 2014 at 02:34:53 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Unfortunately we won't participate in GSoC this year. The decision was not surprising - our application has been rejected. Sadly there are lots of things we could have done better. Our application has been a low-priority side job for Walter and myself and as such its quality has suffered greatly. GSoC applications are a great example of things where one or more community members can have a large impact on D's well being by offloading a parallelizable work from the two of us. Please consider taking a leadership role for GSoC 2015. Andrei How much time did you spend on the application this year? How much time do you think would be needed to put together a good quality proposal? Walter and I pleaded that the other completes the application, with me saying I don't have the time and him saying he's not suited for the job. In the end I won and he spent a couple of hours drafting a proposal, which was indeed bad. I spent maybe an hour a late evening trying to improve the proposal and that was about it. Made no page on dlang.org and did nothing on the wiki ideas page (which I think was weak as well). But sheer time spent is not essential here as the availability of mental cycles. When I do something right I think of it in small quanta all the time - showering, walking, running, whatever. So by the time I sit down to work on it I have ideas and plans already formed. The GSoC was the exact opposite - unprepared todo work vying for attention at the periphery of an already overflowing plate. There's no way I could have done a good job at it. For better or worse Walter and I are the bottlenecks on a lot of D-related stuff. (Just look at http://goo.gl/jGYzir which is developing a nice tenure as a tab in my web browser.) Kenji wrote me an email months ago asking for my take on DIP49, and has done a lot of legwork before I came back to him saying we need a radical simplification. No wonder he wouldn't answer my emails. Whenever anything comes, I need to act managerial - absorb context quickly, make a decision, delegate details, move on. There's just too much important AND urgent stuff going on right now in D, which gives a whole other perspective on the people who advise us on how to do things better, to dissolve into the shrubs when a very concrete opportunity to do something. From that angle, every single little thing that's parallelizable and off our plate (such as build system, auto tester, release management, GSoC, and such) is a double improvement for the language as a whole: once because that part gets done better, and twice because it frees us to better focus on other things. Concretely: there wasn't much time to work on allocators lately... Thanks, Andrei
Re: ApplyYourDLang - A YouTube channel for D introduction videos
On 2014-02-26 21:23, simendsjo wrote: The video quality is good, isn't it? Or did you mean the content quality (which is pretty poor)? No, not the content, I'm referring to the video quality. Hmm, for some reason Youtube only displays it in 360p. If I download the video it's better. It's ok but not great. Why not 1080p? The audio quality is due to using a laptop microphone. I haven't found a way to increase the volume without uploading another video though. This cannot replace the original, so all links would be invalidated. If you want to do this a lot you should really get a real, external, microphone. -- /Jacob Carlborg
Re: ApplyYourDLang - A YouTube channel for D introduction videos
On Thursday, 27 February 2014 at 20:25:50 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2014-02-26 21:23, simendsjo wrote: The video quality is good, isn't it? Or did you mean the content quality (which is pretty poor)? No, not the content, I'm referring to the video quality. Hmm, for some reason Youtube only displays it in 360p. If I download the video it's better. It's ok but not great. Why not 1080p? 360p is default for embedded widget. You can chose better quality manually in player. Also after going full screen it will also adjust quality to screen resolution in a few seconds.
Re: ApplyYourDLang - A YouTube channel for D introduction videos
On 02/27/2014 09:25 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2014-02-26 21:23, simendsjo wrote: The video quality is good, isn't it? Or did you mean the content quality (which is pretty poor)? No, not the content, I'm referring to the video quality. Hmm, for some reason Youtube only displays it in 360p. If I download the video it's better. It's ok but not great. Why not 1080p? The audio quality is due to using a laptop microphone. I haven't found a way to increase the volume without uploading another video though. This cannot replace the original, so all links would be invalidated. If you want to do this a lot you should really get a real, external, microphone. It's available in 1080p on YouTube. If I plan to do more of these, I should probably learn how to edit the videos too rather than using pause :)
Re: DigitalMars' GSoC application has been rejected
On 2/27/14, 11:11 AM, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: One more question. Do you feel this is a job that someone who isn't necessarily well versed in the various technologies could take on (in a sort of manager role), or would you need someone who has the expertise to evaluate various proposals. Any motivated individual with little to moderate expertise can do it. The application is for the most part filling forms and creating prose. A person who's on top of things can prod contributors into submitting ideas, rally mentors, make sure the related web pages are in good shape, etc. etc. etc. To put things into perspective, we could have missed the deadline if the thing didn't bubble up to my level of consciousness. Andrei
Re: DigitalMars' GSoC application has been rejected
On 2/27/14, 1:42 PM, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: On Thursday, 27 February 2014 at 21:37:03 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 2/27/14, 11:11 AM, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: One more question. Do you feel this is a job that someone who isn't necessarily well versed in the various technologies could take on (in a sort of manager role), or would you need someone who has the expertise to evaluate various proposals. Any motivated individual with little to moderate expertise can do it. The application is for the most part filling forms and creating prose. A person who's on top of things can prod contributors into submitting ideas, rally mentors, make sure the related web pages are in good shape, etc. etc. etc. To put things into perspective, we could have missed the deadline if the thing didn't bubble up to my level of consciousness. Andrei In that case, as Yoda would say: Volunteer to prepare GSoC 2015 proposal I shall. Do you have copies of past submissions as a guideline, or is it just what is on the Wiki. Congratulations and good luck! Stay tuned to the general GSoC process and I hope you'll be around in December :o). Google doesn't save past submissions. We have our older gsoc pages on dlang.org and the wiki. I think Walter saved some form data. Andrei
Re: DigitalMars' GSoC application has been rejected
On Thursday, 27 February 2014 at 22:25:27 UTC, Brad Roberts wrote: We can still do #2 without #1. And we don't need google to make it happen. How about trying a practice run despite not having google tossing in the funding? If someone would want to contribute, what would be the right person to contact, or the right resource to turn to ? I was looking to fix a (probably simple) bug in DMD but it's quite hard to grok (http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?DMDSourceGuide helps but it's a bit outdated). Also, searching contributing in the wiki only yield GDC / LDC links.
Re: DigitalMars' GSoC application has been rejected
On Thursday, 27 February 2014 at 18:47:37 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: For better or worse Walter and I are the bottlenecks on a lot of D-related stuff. I would really like to help with this, and (I think) others would too. The ideas for GSoC 2015 could start now. I took the liberty of adding the ideas page (http://wiki.dlang.org/GSOC_2015_Ideas). Add your ideas today! Deadlines, call for mentors, link to GSoC application instructions should all be added now, if possible. Help me help you: The recent CONTRIBUTING.md for DLang.org helped me make a few updates to neglected areas of the website, and I have more coming. The GDC Project Ideas page (http://wiki.dlang.org/GDC/ProjectIdeas) helped me add a little value to that project. I revisit it periodically to find out What can I do today? I realize the last thing you need is another suggestion, but perhaps something like these could be created for the D effort as a whole. For example, what needs to be done to help prepare for DConf 2014? Mike P.S. Forgive me if all this has been beaten to death before. My sincere thanks for all you and Walter have done to give us D. I'm hoping for a career changer with this language. God knows I need one.
Re: DigitalMars' GSoC application has been rejected
On Thursday, 27 February 2014 at 23:21:29 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: https://community.kde.org/Getinvolved/development (at the bottom) Experienced D developers, who feel they could use on a specific project, or who would be otherwise interested in taking on an 'apprentice' could list projects they would like to see someone take on. Interested developers could browse through and see if any of the proposed projects piqued their interest. IMO this is EXACTLY what this effort needs. I don't know what happened to the apprenticeship custom, but it needs a comeback...badly. This is a great idea. The apprentices this year will likely become the mentors of next year, and it will only accelerate. Make a wiki page to get started. Post an announcement. People may be apprehensive at first, but I think it will catch on. If it doesn't, no harm done. However, that doesn't entirely fulfill #2 in your list. The 'student' needs some motivation to complete the project I suppose. Perhaps a DConf T-shirt autographed by Walter and Andrei or something :o) I would do it simply for the benefit of education. Lord knows it'd be a better return on my investment than an overpriced university. It would also help my career to say that I worked under some of the prominent names in this community. Mentors would benefit as well. I'm sure Iain would love some help doing the 2.065.0 merge, yes? They would learn some valuable leadership skills as well, and may actually enjoy the experience. I greatly enjoyed the little mentoring I've done in my career. I can only see good things coming out of such an effort, if it takes hold. It's a superb idea. Mike
Re: DigitalMars' GSoC application has been rejected
On Friday, 28 February 2014 at 01:02:11 UTC, Mike wrote: On Thursday, 27 February 2014 at 18:47:37 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: For better or worse Walter and I are the bottlenecks on a lot of D-related stuff. I would really like to help with this, and (I think) others would too. The ideas for GSoC 2015 could start now. I took the liberty of adding the ideas page (http://wiki.dlang.org/GSOC_2015_Ideas). Add your ideas today! Deadlines, call for mentors, link to GSoC application instructions should all be added now, if possible. Help me help you: The recent CONTRIBUTING.md for DLang.org helped me make a few updates to neglected areas of the website, and I have more coming. The GDC Project Ideas page (http://wiki.dlang.org/GDC/ProjectIdeas) helped me add a little value to that project. I revisit it periodically to find out What can I do today? I realize the last thing you need is another suggestion, but perhaps something like these could be created for the D effort as a whole. For example, what needs to be done to help prepare for DConf 2014? Mike P.S. Forgive me if all this has been beaten to death before. My sincere thanks for all you and Walter have done to give us D. I'm hoping for a career changer with this language. God knows I need one. Thanks for setting up the idea's page for GSoC 2015, that is a start. As you suggested it would be good to have a general Help Wanted page, possibly with links to willing mentors. It would seem to add some such thing to the Wiki, possibly under the Get Involved section, then role some of these ideas into the GSoC projects.
Re: DigitalMars' GSoC application has been rejected
On 2/27/14, 3:22 PM, Mathias LANG wrote: On Thursday, 27 February 2014 at 22:25:27 UTC, Brad Roberts wrote: We can still do #2 without #1. And we don't need google to make it happen. How about trying a practice run despite not having google tossing in the funding? If someone would want to contribute, what would be the right person to contact, or the right resource to turn to ? Probably kickstarter or similar would be a good possibility for well-defined projects of broad interest. Andrei
