Stream: brlcad

Topic: GSoC mentor round-up


view this post on Zulip Sean (Jan 23 2018 at 00:21):

How do folks feel about GSoC? The application is ready if we're in. I'd want to keep it super lean. Maybe 2-3 students, to focus on just a couple topics with the best candidates.

view this post on Zulip Daniel Rossberg (Jan 23 2018 at 08:21):

OK, I would join in.

view this post on Zulip Sean (Jan 23 2018 at 08:22):

Cool, I'd really like to promote the Qt work

view this post on Zulip Daniel Rossberg (Jan 23 2018 at 08:25):

I expect that "Qt" attracts some students because it sounds easy.

view this post on Zulip Sean (Jan 23 2018 at 08:26):

quite likely, good point

view this post on Zulip Sean (Jan 23 2018 at 08:26):

we can set some application acceptance criteria

view this post on Zulip Sean (Jan 23 2018 at 08:27):

like the first 3 gci tasks.. :)

view this post on Zulip Daniel Rossberg (Jan 23 2018 at 08:30):

It's important that they are able and willing to understand BRL-CAD. How it works, interfaces, why it is how it is.

view this post on Zulip Daniel Rossberg (Jan 23 2018 at 08:32):

Some could try to build a Qt program and ignore BRL-CAD meanwhile. It's easy to work 3 months with Qt only.

view this post on Zulip Sean (Jan 23 2018 at 08:32):

I was (a little) surprised how effective the tutorials were getting people up-to-speed on the vocabulary and workings

view this post on Zulip Sean (Jan 23 2018 at 08:32):

I could definitely tell the difference with the dozen or so tasks I came across where they clearly hadn't done them yet

view this post on Zulip Sean (Jan 23 2018 at 09:49):

@Daniel Rossberg sign-up invite sent

view this post on Zulip Sean (Jan 23 2018 at 09:50):

@LordOfBikes the application is in

view this post on Zulip Daniel Rossberg (Jan 23 2018 at 09:52):

@Daniel Rossberg sign-up invite sent

Already accepted and signed in.

view this post on Zulip Sean (Jan 23 2018 at 09:53):

aha, now it shows

view this post on Zulip Sean (Jan 23 2018 at 09:53):

it still showed as invited, but just updated

view this post on Zulip Armin (LordOfBikes) (Jan 23 2018 at 11:02):

Thanks @Sean, I asked Florian, our last 2 years student, he will join as mentor too. So we can contribute some LibreCAD 3 ideas and I think we can handle 1 slot if available.

view this post on Zulip Sean (Jan 30 2018 at 02:35):

sounds good @LordOfBikes let me know what you think about priorities (if it's librecad 3 and if it is, what more specifically that might mean)

view this post on Zulip Shubham (Jan 13 2019 at 19:54):

Guys, I am very new to open source. I am participating in Gsoc 2019. How do I get started?

view this post on Zulip Sean (Mar 12 2019 at 07:43):

Guys, I am very new to open source. I am participating in Gsoc 2019. How do I get started?

Hi @Shubham -- you get started by talking and (more importantly) doing something. :-)

If you've looked over the project ideas, you're welcome to post your thoughts on them or more details about your experience in #Google Summer of Code or #new members


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