@michael.sundell What is thé name of your open source project? It sounds 
interesting. 
Thanks

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On 2013-03-29, at 5:39 AM, Mikael Sundell <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
> 
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> 
> 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]
>>> 
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