Deadline is in 10 hours. So far, only one semi-enthusiastic mentor volunteer (Robert).
I'd love to have a project to really give a good scrubbing to the Python bindings, but it would need a Python expert to supervise it properly. On Mar 19, 2013, at 8:50 PM, Larry Gritz wrote: > 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
