On March 12, 2010 12:40:21 pm Bruno Postle wrote: > On 12 March 2010 17:03, Jim Watters <[email protected]> wrote: > > The deadline is tonight for applying as a organization. How are things > > progressing on the Application? > > The application is in thanks to some help from Yuval, we can still > modify it for a few hours. > > The 'ideas page' is a supplement to the application, so this could be > improved: http://wiki.panotools.org/SoC_2010_ideas > > e.g. the links to the ideas pages from previous years could be removed > and the relevant content added to the 2010 page so everything is in > one place. > > More good ideas on the ideas page would be good too. >
that ideas pages could use a lot of attention. the more the merrier. we need ideas, but we also need to characterize and categorize them. would be good to assign summarized difficulty levels (easy/medium/difficult/wizard) and community priority levels: how important is the project for the community: (low/medium/high/critical). would require more work but would be even better: assign a vetting exercise to each one of them. E.g. for "Threading for Hugin" the vetting exercise I'd suggest is to start a thread that pops up every ten seconds a window showing a message. extra bonus: the message should show relevant hardware information (how many concurrent threads can be run) and system information / system load. also improvements/projects can be categorized in: * hygiene factors: basics that must be there for the app to be "up to date" * uncharted territory: new features expanding the map to the future * civilization: fill the voids inevitably left in the first run at uncharted territory * paper-cuts: improving on the rough, invisible edges that sneak on the user and frustrate them last but not least: in the past the most successful projects were student's ideas, not community ideas; and they were successful because of the combination of enthusiasm, vision, skill. Be ready to take a student idea into the framework. I'll be mostly unavailable during application/inception because of personal commitments (buying a home, moving about 1000 Km further West), but can and will help the same way I helped Bruno, with materials from the past years and advice. I won't be able to mentor. I may be able to contribute a couple of hours here and there. Yuv -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hugin and other free panoramic software" group. A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx
