The deadline is in about 10 days for applying to be a mentoring organization for GSoC 2013. Although we've been very fortunate to participate for the last 4 years and it's truly been a huge boon to OIIO, I think we should give serious thought to whether or not to participate this year.
As OIIO becomes a more mature code base, there are fewer and fewer projects that a student (usually undergrad, usually new to OIIO) could be expected to do to our satisfaction in the course of 12 weeks. It's a big investment of time on the part of the mentors (and especially me), and we wouldn't want to waste mentor or student time working on projects we don't really need or that at the end the summer would be left in a half-done state. On the other hand, you never know what students you'll get until you try, and we certainly have benefitted tremendously in the past, both in terms of features as well as recruiting continued contributors. So I don't want to write it off. But I do need you guys to let me know: * Project ideas -- what would be useful, and is likely to be completed to some level of satisfaction in about 12 weeks by an advanced undergraduate (or maybe a beginning graduate student). * Mentor volunteers -- under no circumstances can we accept more student projects than reliable mentors. I need a big enough selection of both to make it worth applying. Please reply to this thread if you have input on either. Suggesting a project does not commit you to being a mentor! (Though of course doing both is better.) I have a few ideas, which I will suggest in my own follow-ups to this thread. -- Larry Gritz [email protected] _______________________________________________ Oiio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openimageio.org/listinfo.cgi/oiio-dev-openimageio.org
