[Opentreelib-devel] OpenTree Newsletter

[Pascal K. <kir...@us...>]

Hello everyone,

We would like to inform you about what has happened in the last few months.

Contents:
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 1) Contest
 2) Wiki
 3) Release 0.1


1) Contest
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On October 11th we announced a coding contest to celebrate the 1st birthday
of OpenTree.
Unfortunately, no one participated. We did not announce it broadly enough,
so we will learn for next time.

If you have tips for how to setup such a contest more professionally, please
let us know.

2) Wiki
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We have opened a Wiki on the OpenTree website.
There we will document the existing code and plan for future code.

Please read it, create an account and extend the Wiki where you think it is
needed.

3) Release 0.1
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More game developers have started to ask us about OpenTree as they need
trees in their games. The project was rather idle over the past few months.
We had planned not to make big changes during the contest, but that just
increased the idleness. So we would like to release the first version of
OpenTree and to help people integrate it into their game, 3d engine, or
application. We hope this will spur some activity and that people will begin
to contribute code to improve OpenTree.

In our new Wiki, we created a page about the release where you can write
down what you feel must be done for this very first and basic release.

If you have a cool codename for it, something like 'Offspring' or 'Bonsai',
let us know :)

We are looking forward to announce OpenTree Version 0.1 :)

Regards,
  PK (Pascal Kirchdorfer <kir...@us...>)
  iceeey (Seth Yastrov <sya...@us...>)