In case anyone hasn't been paying attention, BRL-CAD was accepted to participate in the 2014 Google Summer of Code!
Our application went through with flying colors despite our ISP rebooting the main server accidentally during the week of application reviews and going completely dark a half hour before orgs were announced. I stubbed in a temporary page but fortunately everything was restored back within a couple hours (ugh). Regardless, we're a go! That means we have a lot of work that needs to be done quickly now. The project ideas page and virtual machine come to mind immediately. There are several project ideas we've discussed that are not on the page and some on there that need to be updated and removed. Please don't wait if you're willing to make any updates or additions. Mentors need to sign up on the Melange site and affiliate themselves with BRL-CAD. Student selections this year will be heavily driven by mentor interest, so please do engage and redirect students if there's an area you'd like to see worked. I'm hoping that we get students for at least 2 possibly 3 web projects, 1 conversion, 1 interface, 1 rendering, and 1 or 2 core infrastructure projects. Of course, entirely driven by student ability, proposal quality, and mentors, but expecting 5-10 slots. Someone needs to download the VM and (at a minimum) run "svn up" and upload an updated image so everyone doesn't have to pull all our updates from the past year. A change or expansion this year, as compared to last year, is as I mentioned earlier about collaborating with three other communities: OpenSCAD, STEPcode, and LibreCAD. They will each be getting 1-2 slots depending on the number and quality of applications received. I'm leaving it up to them to define project ideas, but reusable or collaborative projects are the hope. Feel free to add and expand on project ideas of your own that help bridge our communities (like handing data over to LibreCAD when someone edits our 2D sketch primitive in BRL-CAD, or creating a faithful OpenSCAD converter). I'll be tackling changes to our app guidelines and requirements to accommodate our parters and will then be working on adding several project ideas that I've had in mind (and reorganizing them, they're a mess). GSoC Students: if you're listening and haven't introduced yourself, don't be shy. Forget about our ideas page and let us know what really interests you. Welcome. ;) Cheers! Sean ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Flow-based real-time traffic analytics software. Cisco certified tool. Monitor traffic, SLAs, QoS, Medianet, WAAS etc. with NetFlow Analyzer Customize your own dashboards, set traffic alerts and generate reports. Network behavioral analysis & security monitoring. All-in-one tool. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=126839071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ BRL-CAD Developer mailing list brlcad-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-devel
