Hi everyone, It's time of the year again. Looks like GSoC starts earlier each year. We just have two more weeks to finish the application!
I've done all the forms already. I will also check with the team here in the studio to make a fun "onboarding" video, explaining where to find everything and how to get involved. What needs to be done in the next weeks is: - get a list of mentor candidates (people who review proposals). Contact me! - present an ideas page To start, I copied most of the ideas over from last year: https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/GoogleSummerOfCode/2018/Ideas Please check and update! Remember, it's not a feature request listing, it should be projects supported by the module teams, with mentors candidates. I also want to propose to improve the GSoC experience in some ways: - Active recruitment locally on you university or your city - especially studios/companies who use Blender can be co-mentoring students as well. Get your own well paid intern! - Actively recruiting among students who already work with Blender (code). - Be more strict to student applicants. They should really bring in experience and knowledge. - GSoC is not an introduction to become a developer! - But we should also keep proposed projects simple and feasible. And it has to fit 2.8. - Get students to work on projects a mentor is also working on. That way mentorship goes more natural. Laters, -Ton- -------------------------------------------------------- Ton Roosendaal - [email protected] - www.blender.org Chairman Blender Foundation, Director Blender Institute Entrepotdok 57A, 1018 AD, Amsterdam, the Netherlands _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
