[brlcad-devel] 2008 Google Summer of Code

[Christopher S. M. <br...@ma...>]

BRL-CAD has been accepted to participate in the 2008 Google Summer of  
Code! ( See http://code.google.com/soc/ )  I'll send out another non- 
developers announcement later, but things are already under way since  
the list was officially published (and subsequently announced on /.  
too).  I've written up much information including project ideas,  
application guidelines, and development requirements already  
available on the wiki: http://brlcad.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code

For mentors:
Be sure to read the Google FAQ if you haven't already:  http:// 
code.google.com/opensource/gsoc/2008/faqs.html
Be sure to log into the Google Summer of Code site and select BRL- 
CAD: http://code.google.com/soc/2008/mentor_step1.html

As the intention and expectation is to have anywhere from 2 to 4  
students, we should have more than enough official mentors.  Others  
are, however, certainly welcome and encouraged to get involved and  
participate in the evaluation, selection, and mentoring process.  If  
you'd like to be added, send me a note.  All the mentors need to make  
sure there is at least one or two project ideas in the list that  
you'd be interested in mentoring.  The project ideas page still needs  
to be expanded and sorted, but it's a good starting point  
particularly in conjunction with the orange ideas list I'd sent out  
earlier.

There will likely be a lot more chatter on here and on the IRC  
channel over the next couple weeks as students arrive with their  
proposals..

Cheers!
Sean