Hi everyone,
Hope you're enjoying the last bits of those valentine's day chocolates.
Hello All!
>
> Hopefully you are all mostly recovered from GCI? I know I?ve not yet
> recovered and that is a primary cause for this delayed announcement, but
> I?ve decided to proceed with a GSoC 2015 application. This is entirely to
> support the interests of our newly budding association of CAx projects.
>
I'm happy about the outstanding results (tasks, mentors from new countries,
etc) BRL-CAD obtained from GCI 2014 and that I got introduced to mentorship
within this growing community.
> If you?re interested in mentoring, please register on Melange and send me
> back an e-mail in private with your username.
>
> If we are accepted ? and that is a BIG if this year as we are overdue a
> veteran rejection ? it is my intention to accept very few students for
> BRL-CAD. Exactly how many will depend entirely on your willingness to
> mentor and only exceptional students that communicate very well and
> demonstrate solid code competency through patch submissions will even be
> considered. That said, this leaves much room for LibreCAD, OpenSCAD, and
> STEPcode to take on more activity and for us to direct talent towards them,
> if they?re willing.
>
I'm happy that open source CAD organisations are pooling resources together
to achieve synergy. The whole is always greater than the sum of its parts.
> So that also means ? update the project ideas page! The URL that will go
> into the application is
> http://brlcad.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/Project_Ideas so keep in
> mind that the OSPO reviewers will spend all of 1 minute at best giving it a
> quick review. I suggest hyperlinking individual topics like OpenSCAD did
> last year, but feel free to restructure it or make it easier to navigate if
> someone has the time and inclination to work on it.
>
> For the topics, remember as a general rule of thumb to write detailed
> descriptions that scope efforts that you think will roughly take one solid
> month of effort. And as always, I encourage us all to think about projects
> that encourage cross-code collaboration, code sharing, and integration.
>
> Besides creating a Melange account, updating the project ideas page is
> really the only action that needs to be taken right now.
>
> One more thing... This is likely the last year I will be submitting an
> application for BRL-CAD. I?m working (with several of you) this year ? and
> have already started ? to establish a formal umbrella organization to
> handle and support collaborative initiatives like this in the future. So
> while not the end of our participation by any means, we will not be the
> center of attention. I believe this is necessary for us to continue our
> pattern of growth sustainably and to create new opportunities.
>
+100 Sean and more grease to your elbows.
>
> Cheers!
> Sean
>
At Your Service.
Isaac Kamga.
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