On Tuesday 18 March 2008 14:14:02 Michael wrote: > On Tuesday 18 March 2008 13:43:02 Michael wrote: > > 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. > > Oh, just a note - for those that don't realise what Google Summer of Code > is - it's where google will happily pay someone in (or about to enter) > higher education for work over the summer on open source projects. The > results are also open source.
Further to this, we had a large number of highly eclectic & enthusiastic proposals for ideas which relate to networked collaborative music generation, through tools demoing multicore support in a fun (and useful) way, through tools for testing frameworks, 3D visualisation and even a kinda cross between instant messaging/skype and web serving. (that student essentially wants to build a P2P facebook/myspace) The upshot is that, assuming successful, these projects, as well as being useful in their own right, will also generate significant amounts of useful components [1] that can be reused in lots of interesting ways - from MIDI/OSC through Arduino & NXT components. [1] ie expanding & extending http://kamaelia.sourceforge.net/Components (In case the list of projects looks odd, the *project/overall* benefit is the extension/expansion of this list, whilst the students get to do something they're interested in/passionate about :) Summaries of the accepted proposals can be found here for those curious: * http://code.google.com/soc/2008/bbc/about.html Also, this is the first year we've had a mentor from the Kamaelia community in addition to ourselves, so many thanks to Sylvain Hellegouarch for offering to assist with mentoring :-) Anyway, just posting in case people were curious as to what happened next :-) Michael. -- (Oh, and yes, posting here was a good idea - we had a strong application from a lurker on this list who is now going to be working on a GSOC project this summer, but with a different mentor org :-) - congrats btw - you know who you are :-) - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk developer discussion group. To unsubscribe, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe backstage-developer [your email] as the message.
