[Open-graphics] Google summer of code

[Attila Kinali]

On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:03:49 +0100
Kenneth Ostby <kenneo at langly.org> wrote:

> Timothy Normand Miller:
> >On 2/25/08, Kenneth Ostby <kenneo at langly.org> wrote:
> >How specific do we have to be?  We have many things that need doing.
> >Some Verilog code.  Some drivers.  And some development tools (like
> >HIDE).  Do we need to pick something specifically, or can we list them
> >all?
> 
> We can list them all, however I would prefer that the projects we list
> should try to be as self-contained as possible. I.e. "making OGA1 work"
> would probably be an bad project for the SoC, while something along the
> lines of "making an I2C master which can chat DDC" would be more
> appropriate ( Just an example ). The point is that we would like
> projects that can last for more or less two months, including learning
> the tools/code, and that we can somehow conclude if went well or not. 

Definitly. As reference, have a look at FFmpegs proposals:
http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=FFmpeg_Summer_Of_Code_2008

What is really important are the qualification tasks. The first time
FFmpeg participated didnt had qualification tasks and it was a nearly
complete desaster. I think from the 8 projects only 2 were half way done.
The others had nothing to present. 2007, which had for the first time
the qualification tasks, was a lot better, iirc all projects reached the primary
goal and quite a few the secondary too. Though none of them are yet
in the FFmpeg svn repo.
 
> Final question though, we need someone to be the organisation contact
> with Google ( The one writing up application, organising mentors and
> such ). If nobody else have any strong feelings towards it, I could fill
> that position.

Go ahead :-)

			Attila Kinali
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