I have copy /pasted the section about contributors to the wiki, so people can know who to ask when becomming SoC students, please everybody go add/edit his entry.
I think our MP dev should add a section about themselves, many projects require a good comprehension of MP gameplay, so their support will be needed we are really short in time, so everybody please fill in... Cheers Boucman On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 6:32 PM, Nils Kneuper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > jeremy rosen schrieb: > | and we still need a mentor. > > We do need more than one developer to act as mentor. Here is the list of > people > I currently do see as possible mentors and why I do see them as mentors: > > * Dave > To take care about someone wanting to work on the formula ai and as our > first > class c++ expert. > > * Mordante > Many of the possible projects do at least partly go into the area of code > where > he knows most of. Plus many of the possible projects currently listed on > the > ideas page (http://www.wesnoth.org/wiki/SummerOfCodeIdeas) do require GUI > parts > to work, too. So if Mordante wants to tackle a rewrite of large parts of > this, > he will be our expert there as well as he already is our expert for the > terrain > engine (cf. editor / scenario editor works). > > * elias > He has written the original version of campgen and as such will know a lot > about > what is needed to to make such an editor work correctly. The work on a > scenario > editor might be based upon campgen and as such make his knowledge really > helpful. > > * grzywacz > Last year he was participating at GSoC as a student, so he knows at least > this > side of the medal. Beside this he is our top expert regarding embedded > devices > support. > > * boucman > As our "patch monkey" he has valuable knowledge in comments and critics > for > patches of every kind. Beside this he knows many areas of the game due to > working on applying patches. > > * Soliton > He does know our mp server setup best. Beside this he already has done a > lot of > work on the mp server himself, too. So he probably has most knowledge > about it > and due to being one of our mp-devlopers might provide important help from > the > perspective of mp-community and what is needed there. > > * zookeeper or Mythological or Rhuaven > As our leading WML expert it would be good to have him in the list when it > comes > to WML specific problems. That is for work on the scenario editor he > probably > knows best what should be implemented in it and what is a usable way for > things. > > * YogiHH or cycholka > Since they are the two developers who know most about building under > Windows, > they will probably be really helpful. Either if the student comes from the > Windows side, or to help test resulting work to make sure that it does > work on > Windows and, for the case that it does not, to show them where problems > are. > > > Keep in mind that all 'or' are logical or, so it could as well be all of > those, > any help is appreciated... > Who else should I list? Does anyone of those definitely not want to become > a > mentor for GSoC? Are there other volunteers? I think better to have as > many as > possible, then not having enough. Beside this I think everyone active in > #wesnoth-dev will try to act as some kind of help when the students do > need it. > > > It looks like I might become general admin for the Wesnoth project for > GSoC if > Wesnoth gets accepted (as proposed by Dave in IRC yesterday). But I would > like > to at least have one backup admin for the case that I am on holidays, end > with > no time at all for some days (sometimes university wants to eat time...) > or for > the case that I am simply ill for some days. > > > Yesterday grzywacz posted two links from google regarding GSoC. > 1) General FAQ regarding mentoring organisations > http://code.google.com/soc/2008/faqs.html#0.1_mentoring_orgs > 2) Criteria for being selected > > http://groups.google.com/group/google-summer-of-code-announce/web/notes-on-organization-selection-criteria > > That should be all for the moment. > Cheers, > Nils Kneuper aka Ivanovic > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFHxZ6ifFda9thizwURAkBtAKCiWTwepmoMW2HgjXK2nbtBNuAquACeMZXW > mXEDdHh6u+juetAfWzPtJ5E= > =HfnF > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Wesnoth-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev >
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