[brlcad-news] Introducing our 2012 GSoC Students

2012-05-22 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
For BRL-CAD's fourth year participating in the Google Summer of Code [1], we expanded our involvement and accepted a record 11 students. Predominantly evaluated on the student's ability to develop, communicate, and interact, their proposals were selected from among more than 50 received as

[brlcad-news] Goodie Rocking Open Source

2012-11-07 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
The folks at Ohloh, a site dedicated to tracking statistics across more than 500,000 open source repositories, recently posted an article about some of the oldest open source projects they know about. BRL-CAD came out on

[brlcad-news] 2013 Google Summer of Code

2013-04-30 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
For a fifth year, BRL-CAD is once again participating in theGoogle Summer of Code(GSoC)! Students mustsubmit a proposal applicationbefore the May 3rd deadline with selected students announced on May 27th. Those selected get to work onvarious interesting projectsthat help improve BRL-CAD.GSoC is an

[brlcad-news] Overdue Status Update!

2015-07-22 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
Hi All, It’s been over a year since our last update to the community, and a status update is long overdue! The past year and a half has actually been the most busy to date for BRL-CAD with so much exciting work going on. However, you certainly wouldn’t know that as our communications and

[brlcad-news] FW: AJEM Introductory 2.x Training, Aberdeen Area, 1-3 November 2016

2016-10-12 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
See the below message regarding upcoming BRL-CAD training offered by SURVICE Engineering, Inc. BRL-CAD is included with AJEM and is a significant component of their training package. Cheers! Sean -Original Message- Sent: Monday, October 10, 2016 5:01 PM Subject: [Non-DoD Source]

[brlcad-news] 2017 Summer of Code student selections!

2017-05-08 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
BRL-CAD is once again participating in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC)! In our 9th year selected to participate in this competitive international program, we conservatively decided to mentor 3 individuals that we are excited to announce: - Shubham Rathore aims to add support for 2D

[brlcad-news] User community feedback

2017-12-07 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
Hi All, I’ve set up a community feedback form at https://goo.gl/forms/L9dlrLGiYRXAxtz92 If you’ve got a couple minutes, it’d be great to hear from everyone in the community. It’s just four simple questions that will help us prioritize activities next

[brlcad-news] BRL-CAD has been accepted into the Google Summer of Code!

2018-02-12 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
For a 10th year, BRL-CAD has been accepted into the Google Summer of Code (GSoC)! This is a highly competitive world-wide program sponsored by Google, supporting students that want to get involved in open source development. For our community, GSoC helps us attract new developers, project

[brlcad-news] BRL-CAD and OpenSCAD accepted into GSoD!

2019-04-30 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison via brlcad-news
Awesome news! For those not on the announcement list, BRL-CAD and OpenSCAD were accepted into the Google Season of Docs (GSoD)! Looks like they approved just 50 orgs so that’s going to be 50-100 technical writers working on open source documentation and documentation infrastructure, 1-2 per

[brlcad-news] BRL-CAD Release 7.32.0, LTNS

2020-09-21 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison via brlcad-news
I’m proud to announce the release of BRL-CAD 7.32.0. It may be downloaded in source and some binary forms from: http://brlcad.org/d/download This major update introduces significant updates throughout BRL-CAD’s core infrastructure. This release updates Tcl/Tk to 8.6 and includes numerous

[brlcad-news] LAST CALL: GitHub migration imminent, please check BRL-CAD commit mappings

2020-07-16 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison via brlcad-news
Please ensure before Monday July 20th that we've mapped your BRL-CAD commit username to a valid GitHub account: https://sourceforge.net/p/brlcad/code/HEAD/tree/brlcad/trunk/misc/repoconv/account-map