Hi,
This just a short note to say that BBC Research has been accepted as a mentor
organisation for Google Summer of Code again this year (third year!). Also
Dirac applied seperately along with the Schroedinger project and as a result
dirac/schroedinger is also a mentor organisation this year.
As a result, if there's any students on the list who are interested in working
on something that scratches their itch, and matches the goals of Kamaelia,
Dirac, Schroedinger - or any other BBC open source project, please do get in
touch.
If you're a BBC person who happens to runs or works with a BBC open source
project, and I don't know you and haven't reached you by any other mechanism
and you're interested in mentoring a GSOC Project, please get in touch with
me.
Dirac/Schroedinger's list is here:
http://www.diracvideo.org/wiki/GSoC2008Ideas
Kamaelia's list is here:
http://kamaelia.sourceforge.net/SummerOfCode2008
If you have some interesting ideas for projects (with the caveat that they
must fit with a BBC open source project) that you can't do for whatever
reason, please let us know - we'll happily add that to the list of ideas.
(Can't guarantee it'll get worked on for two reasons : 1) projects are
proposed by students and accepted/rejected by orgs. 2) there's often many
many more project proposals than slots)
Bonus points given to project ideas that support ongoing BBC work :-) (or work
you'd like to see the BBC do :)
People can feel free to contact me off list. (Posting using home email because
this'd bounce otherwise)
For BBC people lurking on the list that don't generally post...
* Got an idea you want explored ?
* Want to see a particular library integrated into Kamaelia? (thereby
making it usable with everything else)
* Would you like to mentor a project over the summer ? (The first users of
Kamaelia didn't tell us until several months after they'd completed
their project, so this doesn't seem to odd to ask here :)
* Do you run an existing BBC Open Source project and do you have some
low hanging but interesting fruit you'd like someone to work on?
* The ideas on the kamaelia website are currently just of interest
to me [1] but I can think of many many more, and really interested in
full system ideas at the moment. The presentation on the the ideas
page also covers 3 relatively interesting systems.
[1] They're also targetted in such a way to drop out a significant
chunk of useful components along the way, all of which would
be reusable.
If so, please get in touch ASAP. I'll need your gmail account id. The more
we put into GSOC, the more students get out of it and the more we all get out
of this. Also, many hands make light work, etc :)
Also, to be frank, I'd really like ideas of what you might think can be done
if you combine a system that can have a built in webserver, with open GL,
with SDL, Audio in, audio/video out, arbitrary transcoding muxing of DVB, Bit
Torrent distribution, serving over multiple protocols (tcp/udp/multicast) all
at once. (seriously, these can all be mixed and matched *pretty trivially* )
etc
Due to being written in python this allows us to pull in most C libraries
fairly easily, and if someone can write a stub application that achieves the
core of their problem, we can turn it into a component that can be used with
anything else.
Due to some recent changes it'll also support multicore systems natively (ie
use all the CPUs) with very light touch changes to top level code. (this is a
bit experimental :)
Have fun!
Michael.
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Michael Sparks, Snr Research Engineer, BBC Future Media Research & Innovation,
[EMAIL PROTECTED], Kamaelia Project Lead, http://kamaelia.sf.net/
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