Kurian Benoy (May 16 2019 at 16:23): Kurian Benoy (May 16 2019 at 16:23):Hi I am anonymitious kb, I am interested in contributing to Google season of docs.
Sean (May 16 2019 at 19:09):Hi Kurian! Feel free to join in the discussions at #Google Season of Docs if you have particular questions. Feel free to start a new thread to introduce yourself, your interests. Would love to hear more about your background.
Muhammad Arslan (May 19 2019 at 21:33):Hello everyone! I'm Arslan from Pakistan writing this. After i heard about GSoD i went through organization details and got to know about BRL-CAD. I myself am a mechanical engineer and have experience in CAD modelling. In fact it's my hobby to learn new CAD software so i am absolutely super excited for working for BRL-CAD. My other hobbies are book reading and writing. What about you guys??
Sean (May 20 2019 at 20:17):Welcome @Muhammad Arslan! Thanks for the intro. I've been working on BRL-CAD for about 25 years now, love computer graphics software in general, but also a fan of offline activities like crew rowing and movies.
Chetan Shinde (May 20 2019 at 21:28):Greetings to everyone!. I am Chetan Shinde from India. I am excited to contribute to GSoD. My technical hobbies are to read and write code. My non-technical hobby is going out on trekking.
The ideas I am looking towards are
1. Write a BRL-CAD Primitives manual.
2. Write an Introduction to BRL-CAD.
Please, feel free to connect. Thanks.
Muhammad Arslan (May 21 2019 at 10:24):Welcome Muhammad Arslan! Thanks for the intro. I've been working on BRL-CAD for about 25 years now, love computer graphics software in general, but also a fan of offline activities like crew rowing and movies.
25 years wow. That's some serious level of commitment. I plan on learning computer graphics in my career too. I also like watching movies, Inception was my favorite one.
Muhammad Arslan (May 21 2019 at 10:27):Greetings to everyone!. I am Chetan Shinde from India. I am excited to contribute to GSoD. My technical hobbies are to read and write code. My non-technical hobby is going out on trekking.
The ideas I am looking towards are
1. Write a BRL-CAD Primitives manual.
2. Write an Introduction to BRL-CAD.
Please, feel free to connect. Thanks.
Hello Chetan from other side of border. I wish you good luck for your project and hope you're selected
Kartikey Joshi (May 21 2019 at 12:02):Greetings everyone!!!
I am Kartikey Joshi from India, currently pursuing Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering. When I came to know about GSoD through my friend, I was excited about it as I love writing in my past time. I have also worked as technical writer with geekeasier.com . Then my interest grew in designing and solid modeling. I have working knowledge of three different CAD softwares. And now I am involved in learning Robotics. I love to design Robots and currently working to design a smaller version of Industrial Robot.
Seeing a CAD organisation in GSoD has made me super enthusiastic to work here. I am new to open source. And in the past few days I have gone through the documentation of BRL - CAD and I am thinking of organising the existing documentation as my project for GSoD. Please guide me towards the next step.
Thank You:smiley:
Kartikey Joshi (May 21 2019 at 12:08):Hi @Muhammad Arslan , Love from India.
Which project you are thinking to work upon?
Kartikey Joshi (May 21 2019 at 12:11):Hey @Chetan Shinde , are you from computer science background?
Chetan Shinde (May 21 2019 at 12:14):Greetings to everyone!. I am Chetan Shinde from India. I am excited to contribute to GSoD. My technical hobbies are to read and write code. My non-technical hobby is going out on trekking.
The ideas I am looking towards are
1. Write a BRL-CAD Primitives manual.
2. Write an Introduction to BRL-CAD.
Please, feel free to connect. Thanks.Hello Chetan from other side of border. I wish you good luck for your project and hope you're selected
Wish you the same @Muhammad Arslan !
Chetan Shinde (May 21 2019 at 12:16):Hey Chetan Shinde , are you from computer science background?
Hi @Kartikey Joshi yes, I am in my final year of computer engineering.
Chetan Shinde (May 21 2019 at 12:28):Welcome Muhammad Arslan! Thanks for the intro. I've been working on BRL-CAD for about 25 years now, love computer graphics software in general, but also a fan of offline activities like crew rowing and movies.
25 years wow. That's some serious level of commitment. I plan on learning computer graphics in my career too. I also like watching movies, Inception was my favorite one.
Actually @Muhammad Arslan . @Sean ... its quite motivating.. :heart:
Sean (May 21 2019 at 12:31):Welcome @Kartikey Joshi ! I look forward to seeing more details about your writing experience (perhaps a portfolio with samples) and look forward to working with you as you develop a proposal.
Muhammad Arslan (May 21 2019 at 19:15):Hi Muhammad Arslan , Love from India.
Which project you are thinking to work upon?
Hi @Kartikey Joshi back at you.
I'm looking for working on
1-Writing an introduction to BRL-CAD
2-Organize all existing user docs
Good to see someone from my technology here and even great to know you also like CADing!!! I look forward to working with you if that's possible.
Cheers
Sean (May 22 2019 at 14:37):I'm looking for working on
1-Writing an introduction to BRL-CAD
2-Organize all existing user docs
@Muhammad Arslan You'll want to focus your proposal on just one topic. There's definitely not time to do both well. The harder projects are preferred over the easier ones, but do not propose something you are not fully capable of working hard and delivering on (or you'll essentially disqualify yourself if we think you don't have enough technical experience). You'll want to have a detailed proposal.
Yash Kedia (May 28 2019 at 13:30):Hi I am Yash Kedia i am a sophomre at JIIT Noida and i am looking to participate in GSOD 2019
I would love to contribute to your project in documentation
Any leads would be helpful
Also what are the prerequisites for an successfull application at the end of GSOD 2019
Daniel Rossberg (May 28 2019 at 19:33):Welcome @Yash Kedia! Could you please tell something about your skills in documentation? Can you provide us with examples of documentations you have written? GSoD is for experienced technical writers.
Chetan Shinde (May 29 2019 at 19:44):Hello Everyone, I would like to share a technical report which I had written for my Data Mining project. The report talks in brief about how the project has been implemented. Please check it out, I have got grades for this technical report :joy: but please do share any points which can help to make it better. Thanks.
Link https://drive.google.com/file/d/1S6F3pxKYYO-5VdrqIYBNZ439cYTig6aq/view?usp=sharing
The report is been made in Latex.
Chetan Shinde (May 29 2019 at 20:37):Hello Everyone, I would like to share a technical report which I had written for my Data Mining project. The report talks in brief about how the project has been implemented. Please check it out, I have got grades for this technical report :joy: but please do share any points which can help to make it better. Thanks.
Link https://drive.google.com/file/d/1S6F3pxKYYO-5VdrqIYBNZ439cYTig6aq/view?usp=sharing
The report is been made in Latex.
I have made changes in the settings of the shared link. Now the report can be accessed without permission required.
Chetan Shinde (May 29 2019 at 21:22):Suggestions...
Can we make the Introduction to BRL-CAD document in latex. The use of latex will give a better look to the document.
Sean (May 31 2019 at 13:13):@Chetan Shinde Congratulations on your report. It looks nice. I like the integrated diagrams and overall layout.
If you're looking for suggestions on making it better, I would offer just a couple points of advice -- one would be to follow a particular style guide, which you may have been doing already. That usually helps with consistency and norms for readers. For example, using Latin numerals is usually reserved for preambles in books and reports, not for the main body. Not a big deal, but it starts to get important when document pages get into the dozens or hundreds of pages. Another point would be to have the grammar checked by a second set of eyes. I noticed a couple phrasing issues in the document, none major but they were enough to distract from the content in places. Otherwise, I think the use of LaTeX is perfect for this kind of report and that's exactly what it was made for. The layout looks really nice.
Sean (May 31 2019 at 13:16):Suggestions...
Can we make the Introduction to BRL-CAD document in latex. The use of latex will give a better look to the document.
Our documentation system is in Docbook XML for the time being. At least, that's the required format until someone works on the Documentation Infrastructure project which would shift us to using Markdown or Asciidoc, depending on the doc system.
Chetan Shinde (May 31 2019 at 16:05):Chetan Shinde Congratulations on your report. It looks nice. I like the integrated diagrams and overall layout.
If you're looking for suggestions on making it better, I would offer just a couple points of advice -- one would be to follow a particular style guide, which you may have been doing already. That usually helps with consistency and norms for readers. For example, using Latin numerals is usually reserved for preambles in books and reports, not for the main body. Not a big deal, but it starts to get important when document pages get into the dozens or hundreds of pages. Another point would be to have the grammar checked by a second set of eyes. I noticed a couple phrasing issues in the document, none major but they were enough to distract from the content in places. Otherwise, I think the use of LaTeX is perfect for this kind of report and that's exactly what it was made for. The layout looks really nice.
Thanks Sean! for your valuable inputs. Will keep all these points in mind.
Ebenezer Graham (Jun 19 2019 at 08:58):Hi all, I am working on Upgrade doc infrastructure for GSoD. But I can't find the original DocBook XML repository. I am reading this document http://brlcad.org/HACKING_BRL-CAD.pdf but I can't find the documentation which needs to be migrated
Ebenezer Graham (Jun 19 2019 at 09:26):Hi all, I am working on Upgrade doc infrastructure for GSoD. But I can't find the original DocBook XML repository. I am reading this document http://brlcad.org/HACKING_BRL-CAD.pdf but I can't find the documentation which needs to be migrated
Found it. I believe the docs folders in these repositories https://github.com/BRL-CAD. Please, let me know if I am on the right track
Sean (Jun 19 2019 at 12:56):Hi @Ebenezer Graham ! Glad to see you found zulipchat. You haven't yet found the main BRL-CAD doc sources, though -- you found our other Github repos. The docs are in our main repo which is still in Subversion on SourceForge: http://brlcad.org/wiki/Building_from_SVN
Ebenezer Graham (Jun 19 2019 at 13:07):Hi @Sean I think I found it http://svn.code.sf.net/p/brlcad/code/brlcad/trunk/doc/docbook/
Ebenezer Graham (Jun 19 2019 at 13:12):Thanks
Yida Wang (Jun 20 2019 at 08:31):Hi all,
I'm Yida from TUM, a Ph.D. student working on 3D vision tasks, willing to join GSoD this year. Two of my most recent publications in IEEE 3D Vision and IEEE TIPcould be found in https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yida_Wang/research. I think that I'm good to work with "writing a 'BRL-CAD Primitives' manual and organize developer docs" proposal.
Additionally, a video is also released on my personal website https://wangyida.github.io/publication/3dv18_wang/ for 3D scene understanding topics. Apart from writing professional documents for BRL-CAD’s GSoD this year, I’m also interested to build a fancy website for BRL-CAD based on the similar framework as what I am using for my current 3D vision research https://wangyida.github.io/.
Sean (Jun 20 2019 at 17:59):Welcome @Yida Wang! Thanks for the introduction and glad to see you're involved. It's probably also worth mentioning that you've been a GSoC student twice in the past as well, correct?
Yida Wang (Jun 20 2019 at 22:17):Hi Sean, yes I have spent two years with OpenCV for vision based deep learning projects which are supported by GSoC. And now I also mentor other student for coding with GSoC
Yida Wang (Jun 20 2019 at 22:20):This is actually the first year of GSoD right? Rather similar to my paper writing experience. Previously I prepare all documents for open source organizations using Doxygen.
Sean (Jun 21 2019 at 19:01):This is the first year of GSoD, so there's a lot of discovery going on. Seeing what will work and what won't. As one of the oldest participating orgs, we know GSoC very well.
Ebenezer Graham (Jun 22 2019 at 21:39):Hi @Sean I have been able to checkout the base repository and started initialized docusaurus in the doc directory. I want to explore how the validation will be done to keep the documentation in sync. Can you share your ideas on this? Also, I noticed that the wiki site is down. I would like to explore more and understand the BRL-CAD better.
In addition, I have submitted my application for the project. I will share my proposal for review and feedback.
Ebenezer Graham (Jun 22 2019 at 21:41):Hi all,
I'm Yida from TUM, a Ph.D. student working on 3D vision tasks, willing to join GSoD this year. Two of my most recent publications in IEEE 3D Vision and IEEE TIPcould be found in https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yida_Wang/research. I think that I'm good to work with "writing a 'BRL-CAD Primitives' manual and organize developer docs" proposal.
Additionally, a video is also released on my personal website https://wangyida.github.io/publication/3dv18_wang/ for 3D scene understanding topics. Apart from writing professional documents for BRL-CAD’s GSoD this year, I’m also interested to build a fancy website for BRL-CAD based on the similar framework as what I am using for my current 3D vision research https://wangyida.github.io/.
Welcome to the community @Yida Wang , I am an applicant as well. I recently joined this community. Looking forward to working with you :)
Ebenezer Graham (Jun 22 2019 at 21:58):CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:1 (verbose_add_subdirectory):
Unknown CMake command "verbose_add_subdirectory".
-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also "/home/ebenezergraham/apache/gsod/brlcad/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".
@Sean I get the above error when I try to run the command cmake .. in the build directory. Can you help with this?
Ebenezer Graham (Jun 22 2019 at 23:43):CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:1 (verbose_add_subdirectory):
Unknown CMake command "verbose_add_subdirectory".-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also "/home/ebenezergraham/apache/gsod/brlcad/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".Sean I get the above error when I try to run the command cmake .. in the build directory. Can you help with this?
It's alright now. The timeouts corrupted a few files. It's working now.
Yida Wang (Jun 24 2019 at 22:23):@Ebenezer Graham Hi Ebenezer, glad to exploit more in details on this GSoD together with you. Maybe we can have a further discussion once the targets are more clear.
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