My summer this year isn't going to be nearly as simple as it was last year
(between going on holiday for 3 weeks, moving house at least once, exams,
possibly doing extra clinical placement and job hunting), but preliminarily, I
would register my interest once again.
My proposal, which I'll put up in more detail later, would comprise finishing
off the remaining stuff from last year that remains on my list (2 sets of Drake
animations, 2 Drake portraits, Gryphon Rider portrait), and then give some
major art and animation love to the Kalifa (or whatever the finalised name for
them turned out to be) in preparation for testing them out in mainline and/or
as part of my own ongoing (and soon to be revealed, hopefully) UMC project -
this would consist of both animations and portraits, but in what quantities etc
would have to be determined later on.
On that note, I still anticipate (hopefully, University work permitting) having
the remaining few Kalifa base frames done by month end (4 remain to do, plus at
least one set of cleaning up and fixing.
On a more general note, I'm sure that we could find a few animators among the
up-and-coming artists who might benefit from such a scholarship. We have a
number of people with great potential who I'd dearly love to see able to put in
some quality work.
Phil/thespaceinvader
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 14:34:49 -0700
> Subject: [Wesnoth-dev] Wesnoth Summer Scholarship
>
> Hello all.
>
> With GSOC on its way its time to discuss our other scholarship
> efforts. Last year we had our Wesnoth Summer of Art Scholarship, which
> was judged as being very successful. Our two candidates, Kitty and
> TheSpaceInvader, produced a number of great art pieces which
> benefitted the game. I think the administrators also got a better
> handle of what works and what doesn't, which will assist us in future
> scholarships.
>
> We're somewhat in a different position this year. First off we're now
> an incorporated not for profit organization, which aids in the
> implementation of this project by providing an institutional backbone.
> Second, we have a significant financial windfall to provide
> scholarships. This is largely due to profit sharing with Kyle Poole's
> Iphone/Ipad efforts.
>
> There are a few things we need to discuss. Financially we're probably
> able to support between four to six 5000 dollar scholarships,
> depending on a few variables like future sales and the location of the
> candidates (Non-US candidates cost more due to witholding tax.) The
> number of scholarships isn't so much an issue, but how we allocate
> them can be. In discussions with Dave and some of the other developers
> we'd like to broaden the range of the scholarships. As with last year
> we should have a significant number of art scholarships. In addition,
> Dave has also suggested we offer a WML specific scholarship to promote
> new UMC game content. I think this is an excellent idea, which should
> add more game content and exploit some of the technical improvements
> that have been made on the programming side.
>
> Now I'd like to consider a third type of scholarship, which I know
> maybe slightly controversial but I think could be quite beneficial for
> the program. I'd like one of the scholarships to be offered to female
> developers. I believe one of the most attractive aspects of wesnoth's
> development community is its inclusiveness. The program is translated
> to a number of languages and we offer development opportunities to a
> wide range of skills sets and different levels. That was partly the
> intent behind the art scholarship last year; we attempted to draw in
> greater contributions from individuals not typically involved in open
> source development (artists.) A examination of open source community
> shows that women are highly underrepresented in the field, which is
> unfortunate. I believe that we're well placed to work on this area. We
> already have some excellent contributions from women developers, such
> as kitty, and I'd like to build on that.
>
> I think its also important to note that I think we should retain
> strong standards on quality and organization for this scholarship. I
> don't think we should lax our standards, but instead offer a strong
> incentive towards women developers to come and contribute to our
> game. As Wesnoth is already a fairly inclusive and positive
> environment and this would be an easy way to show that to the world.
> I think its also important that we state that we're looking for
> someone who would be interested in long term participation with the
> program, not something that will end after they are paid. This program
> would also benefit the open source community in general by promoting
> women developers in general.
>
> Some nuts and bolts issues. To attract candidates I propose
> approaching some of the women programming organizations and blogs and
> informing them of what we're trying to achieve. I'm sure most would be
> willing to post about it. There is one issue with my proposal which
> needs a bit of work; we're bereft of mentors due to GSOC. I'm hoping
> that someone who isn't part of GSOC might be able to help.
> Alternatively we might make this less of a mentorship scholarship
> (like GSOC) and simply a straight scholarship with minimal
> supervision. I have a suspicion that this will attract quite a bit of
> attention and we'll get a good slew of high quality candidates. The
> Mentorship group will judge these candidates and make a decision.
> Obviously we'd encourage these individuals to participate on IRC and
> I'm sure our community will help them where possible. I know this
> maybe a controversial subject but I think if we do this right it will
> be a major benefit for our program.
>
> So there you have it. Obviously comments are welcome.
>
> Noy
>
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