Hi Johnathon, Looking forward to seeing your proposal. It is quite close to the deadline (less than 24 hours away for student proposals to be submitted to https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/ )
Please see https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/GoogleSummerOfCode/2017 and specifically - https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/GoogleSummerOfCode/2017/Students which has our application template. Good luck, Tom M. LetterRip On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 5:45 PM, Jonathan Ni <[email protected]> wrote: > Good evening Blender developers, > > My name is Jonathan Ni, and I am a student at Cornell University (Ithaca, > NY, > USA) pursuing a Bachelor's in Computer Science (B.A.). I've always been > interested in 3D rendering and animation and how it's done, which is how I > discovered Blender back in 2009 (2.49b). I have a long coding background, > and > in the past few years, I've developed an interest in optimization and > parallelization of code. > > Having done many personal coding projects, as well as some group projects, > I'm > comfortable with C/C++ (particularly low-level stuff) and Python for coding > and Git and GitHub/Bitbucket/etc. for version control. I also have some > some > OpenGL experience in development of an Android paint application (via > Java). > > With regards to Blender: as a frequent user of Blender's Video Sequence > Editor > to edit my own video projects, I realize the need for improving its > performance, as fairly complex but still common setups will render the VSE > slow and unusable. > > Although my experience with contributing to open source projects is > limited, I > would appreciate the opportunity to work on optimizing the playback of > Blender's VSE system. I have an idea of using the GPU device to accelerate > processing and playback, which I discuss a bit more in my final proposal. > > Regards, > > Jonathan Ni > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
