Hi All, Congratulations all around to everyone that participated in GCI! Thanks to not just our students but also to our numerous mentors who really made it all happen. Jacob's stats are being compiled into an interesting summary that I'm hoping to finish going over this weekend (looks like just a few data points are still needed if anyone wants to help). An news announcement is definitely in order, especially to highlight our top participants and their exceptional work.
GCI participants, your work does not end here! I sincerely hope you continue contributing to BRL-CAD or other open source projects. Have fun taking on a project of your own envisioning. I know it feels like GCI just ended (it did!), but now we're FAST approaching GSoC as well and this year's program is looking to be the biggest to date. BRL-CAD will be applying again this year. It's a particularly special year -- the 10th anniversary of the program and this will be our 6th year if we're accepted. There is lots to do but start thinking about what projects you'd like to see. I have a few areas of interest I'd like to see advance, but they all capitalize on existing investments of effort. If you're a student listening, please do get involved sooner rather than later (make code improvements, patches, do tutorials, talk)! Different for this year, I've already started engaging other open source CAx projects to join under BRL-CAD as an umbrella organization. This is similar to what we did last year with STEPcode. That was logistically successful, so I'm eager to see how well it works with others. I've already gotten a positive interest back from LibreCAD (QCAD fork, 2D CAD) and OpenSCAD (programmer-oriented CSG). The motivation is to help foster and improve our projects together, to help unify and build our community. The idea is to encourage development that is either immediately or may someday lead to better collaboration. This could be in the form of code exchanges, shared libraries of functionality (e.g., LIBGCV or Geometry Engine), development coordination, cross-developer participation, or simply networking and open source CAD camaraderie. Our field is simply too big and the problems far too complex for us all to work in isolation. We can do more together, better. Cheers! Sean p.s. If you are a former GSoC participant and you hope to participate again this year, please send me a message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ BRL-CAD Developer mailing list brlcad-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-devel
