[Bf-committers] GSoC 2018 - deadline for orgs January 23

[Yury Baranov]

Can we please have somewhat like conclusion post/thread for last GSoC
(2017)? what projects are done and likely to be included in main branch
soon (or not soon)?

2018-01-10 18:14 GMT+03:00 Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org>:

> Hi everyone,
>
> It's time of the year again. Looks like GSoC starts earlier each year.
> We just have two more weeks to finish the application!
>
> I've done all the forms already. I will also check with the team here in
> the studio to make a fun "onboarding" video, explaining where to find
> everything and how to get involved.
>
> What needs to be done in the next weeks is:
> - get a list of mentor candidates (people who review proposals). Contact
> me!
> - present an ideas page
>
> To start, I copied most of the ideas over from last year:
> https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/GoogleSummerOfCode/2018/Ideas
>
> Please check and update! Remember, it's not a feature request listing, it
> should be projects supported by the module teams, with mentors candidates.
>
> I also want to propose to improve the GSoC experience in some ways:
>
> - Active recruitment locally on you university or your city - especially
> studios/companies who use Blender can be co-mentoring students as well. Get
> your own well paid intern!
> - Actively recruiting among students who already work with Blender (code).
> - Be more strict to student applicants. They should really bring in
> experience and knowledge.
> - GSoC is not an introduction to become a developer!
> - But we should also keep proposed projects simple and feasible. And it
> has to fit 2.8.
> - Get students to work on projects a mentor is also working on. That way
> mentorship goes more natural.
>
> Laters,
>
> -Ton-
>
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