[Crystal-announce] Google Summer of Code: For potential students

[Jorrit T. <jor...@gm...>]

Hi all potential students for Google Summer of Code.

To get you started I recommend checkout the list of ideas we have (
http://www.crystalspace3d.org/trac/CS/wiki/SoC%20Ideas). Always discuss
here with us first because some of these ideas on that list are not fully
up-to-date and need some finetuning. We can talk more about it in detail if
you tell us what you would like to do.

Also feel free to come up with your own innovative ideas. It is also
possible to include CEL and Ares in your project ideas. I would very much
welcome Ares related projects for example.

You should also make sure to make yourselves comfortable with Crystal
Space. It is recommended you use the development (unstable) version of CS
(2.1) which you can get from svn (
http://www.crystalspace3d.org/main/Download_trunk). Experiment, read code,
try to do some tutorials. In other words: make sure you know what CS is all
about. And of course you can always ask questions here or on IRC
(#CrystalSpace in freenode.net).

About your proposal you will eventually submit to us: make sure it is
sufficiently detailed so we can judge if what you are going to do thisi
summer is good for us. You may be a brilliant programmer with splendid
ideas but if you can't convince us in your proposal then that is not going
to do you any good. This page (
http://www.crystalspace3d.org/trac/CS/wiki/SoC) contains a template you can
use for your proposal but remember that it is only a template. You will
have to provide the actual contents.

Also keep the GSoC timeline in mind (
https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2014). You cannot
apply right now but this is the good time to get to know each other, get
comfortable with CS, talk about your potential proposal and so on.

So good luck to all of you!

-- 
Project Manager of Crystal Space and CEL
(http://www.crystalspace3d.org/<http://www.crystalspace3d.org/main/Main_Page>
)
Project Manager of AresEd (https://code.google.com/p/ares/)
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