Re: [brlcad-devel] GSoC 2012 kick-off

[杨昊 <yan...@gm...>]

Hello Sean:

Thank you again for your detailed explanation and kindly advice on GoSC
application! The friendliness of you and the community impressed me very
much! (And thank Denial for the UGT. manner)

However it seems now that, the time may hardly permit me to be sufficiently
occupied with a complete GoSC program, due to several urgent institute
tasks during these months. Therefore I decide not to submit any
applications this year.

It does not indicate any future decisions. I'll keep following BRL-CAD and
GoSC and will contribute to this awesome project when time permits. BTW, I
believe a longer and better preparation would make the future participation
be of greater benefit to the community.

Thank you all again!
Cheers!

YANG Hao

On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 10:39 PM, Christopher Sean Morrison
<br...@ma...>wrote:

>
> On Mar 12, 2012, at 7:14 AM, 杨昊 wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone!
>
> Welcome, Yang!
>
> > I guess no one can be newer than me in the mailing list currently. I
> subscribed and 2hours later I received this mail :)
> >
> > I'm a Chinese student in Tsinghua Univ, Beijing. I'm in the CG&CAD
> institute and currently working on 3D model reconstruction from CAD
> drawings. I'm good at C/C++, Qt, OpenGL, while not know much about Ogre or
> Tcl/Tk yet (I'm eager to learn)...
> >
> > I've read the the introduction pages and downloaded the latest source
> (and build & compiled), and learned the general objectives and structure of
> BRL-CAD. Since my work in the institute mainly deals with graphics and CAD
> things, I'm already familiar with some algorithms like CSG Boolean
> operation and raytracing etc.
>
> Outstanding.  It sounds like your background is an excellent fit and your
> first steps are spot on.
>
> > While the unfamiliarity with the code may be my weakest point, I'll read
> more asap to get a deeper understanding.
> >
> > I'd like to apply for the GUI or scientific projects. Please tell me if
> there's more things I need to do. Any advice is greatly appreciated !
>
> The one other item that is technically optional this year but highly
> recommended for strong candidates is to submit a patch.  Something that
> demonstrates your ability to read/write code, even if it's something
> simple.  It doesn't have to be related to what you'd be doing for GSoC,
> either.  It can be a simple bug fix, optimization, minor feature, etc.
>
> A code patch is usually the deciding factor if there are two students
> competing for a remaining slot.  Or if there's a student with a patch and
> one without, the one that submitted a useful patch will generally get
> selected.
>
> Some places to look would be to either just run the tools until you get
> something to crash or misbehave (and then fix that), consult the BUGS or
> TODO files, or pull one of the ideas from
> http://brlcad.org/wiki/Contributor_Quickies
>
> If you join the IRC channel, we can interactively try to narrow down on
> what projects are of higher interest.  I usually suggest students put their
> draft project proposals up on our wiki so we can provide feedback early on
> and throughout.  Thanks again for the introduction!
>
> Anyone else care to introduce themselves?
>
> Cheers!
> Sean
>
>
>
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杨昊 YANG Hao
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