I'm working on an opensource image review and playback tool, oiio and ocio based. I could mentor iv related projects such as fast thumbnail generation and simple playback. What's needed to qualify as a mentor? Mikael
Sent from my iPhone On 29 mar 2013, at 09:50, Ben De Luca <[email protected]> wrote: > That would be useful, I tried going through and fixing all the tests > and test failures last year. > > Whilst I am probably fine on the python/boost python side I don't know > enough about oiio to really supervise. > > > > On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 8:10 AM, Larry Gritz <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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 > _______________________________________________ > Oiio-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openimageio.org/listinfo.cgi/oiio-dev-openimageio.org _______________________________________________ Oiio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openimageio.org/listinfo.cgi/oiio-dev-openimageio.org
