Re: [SIP-devel] Developers needed

[Angus E. <aer...@vi...>]

Hello,

I am interested in helping out with this project to a greater extent and
would welcome the opportunity to become more involved.

My research (my Master's) does not currently deal with image processing,
but I am still actively exploring and learning more about the subject.
Also, I am doing more C programming and Scilab than I have done before and
have learned a great deal.

It might be a good idea for us to discuss exactly what are the priorities
and goals we wish to accomplish in the next few months/year.  I have gone
over the tasks section on sourceforge and currently, it is quite out of
date; it might be a good idea to re-evaluate where this project is
going. Just a thought.

I would like to help out in a more concrete role. Questions or comments
about my background and anything else are most welcome.

Hope all are doing well.

cheers,


Angus Errington





On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Ricardo Fabbri wrote:

> Hi, all,
>
> I know it has been quite a long time without any news, sorry.
> We are in need of an new active developer/administrator for SIP. If
> you are interested please sign up to the developers mailing list and
> present yourself.  I am not leaving SIP development, but will help
> manage it and participate.
>
> Unfortunately, since I moved to the USA I could not find any time to
> significantly work on SIP. The main reason is that I have not been
> using Scilab for my own research, so there is no way I could spare
> time for it. I like my new research group very much, but they don't
> rely on Scilab as much as my old group.  So it is a very slow process
> to get them to know it and eventually use it.
>
> We currently work with C++ using http://vxl.sf.net for image
> processing. Since C++ is way more time-consuming to program than
> Scilab for most numerical computing, I am trying to convince people
> (specially my advisor) to take a glance at Scilab.  And in the process
> I have to tell them why Scilab and not Matlab, the advantages of open
> source, etc. It would be nice to gather stories of Matlab to Scilab
> migration around the world, and how to convince people to do it. One
> thing people always complain is that Scilab is not GPL. People are
> very paranoid about this. I was informed that Scilab 4.0 is planned to
> have a new license, GPL or LGPL. That is very good news. (it is taking
> long because some code is having to be rewritten to be
> GPL-compatible).
>
> Anyway, I am currently only passively supporting the SIP Unix SOURCE
> version.  The rest I simply cannot touch for now. I've been extremely
> busy, and finally realized I am going to be like this at least for the
> near future.  I just cannot do everything (home page, binary packages,
> documentation, review contributions, give support, etc).
>
> Frankly it is quite hard to achieve the same level of quality and
> productivity we used to have in SIP a year ago. We need a careful
> solution that guarantees no loss of quality. On the other hand the
> project cannot be stalled forever.
>
> Recently, I was asked:
>
> > We really need to have a Windows version of SIP for Scilab 3.0 and
> > more. Do you plan to have one?
>
> I started one but cannot finalize it myself, at least for the next few
> months. Whenever I work on SIP it is either for support (of the unix
> version) or for actual coding of image processing and writing
> documentation. I was able to port SIP for windows using MinGW
> (www.mingw.org). It actually works, but requires so many tricks and
> hacks, that I did not have time to find a way to actually make a
> windows install executable that would smoothly install on all windows
> versions (from 95 to XP). Each windows version needs its own tweaks
> for e.g.  locating DLLs and imagemagick configuration files. As I
> don't program nor use windows, it is hard to find time for this.
>
> Anyway, I have detailed documentation on my (hacky) windows port and
> can provide it for anybody upon request. I might soon provide a
> webpage on this.
>
> best regards,
> --
> Ricardo Fabbri
>
> PhD Student in Computer Engineering / Computer Vision
> LEMS - Laboratory for Engineering Man-Machine Systems
> Brown University, USA
>
>
> --
> Ricardo Fabbri
>
> PhD Student in Computer Engineering / Computer Vision
> LEMS - Laboratory for Engineering Man-Machine Systems
> Brown University, USA
>
>
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