<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 2:45 AM, Chris Want <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cwant@ualberta.ca" target="_blank">cwant@ualberta.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi all,<br>
<br>
Congratulations to the successful Summer of Code<br>
applicants!<br>
<br>
We have some time before the Summer of Code program<br>
officially starts for the year, but in the meantime<br>
I thought it would be useful to get the mailing lists,<br>
etc., in place, and also to send a "ping" to the<br>
students to make sure that there aren't any<br>
communication issues that should be solved sooner<br>
rather than later.<br>
<br>
As you can tell, I've subscribed you to a Summer of<br>
Code mailing list that we'll use through out the<br>
summer -- more about this list here:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/soc-2009-dev" target="_blank">http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/soc-2009-dev</a><br>
<br>
Three other mailing lists that you are very strongly<br>
advised to subscribe to are the Blender development<br>
list, the Blender 2.5 taskforce, and the Blender cvs<br>
list (sorry, you have to subscribe yourself):<br>
<br>
<a href="http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers" target="_blank">http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers</a><br>
<a href="http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-taskforce25" target="_blank">http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-taskforce25</a><br>
<a href="http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-blender-cvs" target="_blank">http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-blender-cvs</a><br>
<br>
Commit log mails for Summer of Code go to the (poorly<br>
named) bf-blender-cvs mailing list mentioned above.<br>
<br>
If you don't have a p.b.o (<a href="http://projects.blender.org" target="_blank">projects.blender.org</a>) account,<br>
please sign up for one and send your username to this list.<br>
If you already have an account, please send your username:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://projects.blender.org" target="_blank">http://projects.blender.org</a><br>
<br>
Another resource is irc: most of the mentors visit<br>
#blendercoders channel on <a href="http://irc.freenode.net" target="_blank">irc.freenode.net</a>.<br>
<br>
Here are some IRC handles of some of the SoC mentors and<br>
some other helpful developers:<br>
<br>
Ton Roosendaal - kaito<br>
Martin Poirier - theeth<br>
Brecht von Lommel - brecht<br>
Campbell Barton - ideasman_42<br>
Nathan Letwory - jester[King,Dad]<br>
Matt Ebb - broken<br>
Joe Eagar - joeedh<br>
Ken Hughes - khpylon<br>
Jean-Luc Peuriere - lukep<br>
Daniel Genrich - gencher<br>
Geoff Bantle - Briggs<br>
Andrea Weikert - elubie<br>
Kent Mein - sirdude<br>
Benoit Bolsee - ben2610<br>
Erwin Coumans - erwin_bullet<br>
Chris Want - cwant<br>
<br>
We have weekly coding meetings in the #blendercoders<br>
channel on Sundays at 16:00 CEST (14:00 GMT,<br>
08:00 MST, 07:00 PST -- if your time zone isn't<br>
listed, please try to figure out the meeting time).<br>
<br>
There are also development forums on 'w.b.o'<br>
(<a href="http://www.blender.org/" target="_blank">http://www.blender.org/</a>) and Blender Artists<br>
(<a href="http://blenderartists.org/forum/" target="_blank">http://blenderartists.org/forum/</a>).<br>
<br>
As part of my "ping" to the students, this would also<br>
be a good time to get some information from you, so<br>
if you have a moment sometime this week could you please<br>
send a mail to this list saying "Hi", and answering<br>
the following questions:<br>
<br>
* Have you every used subversion before?<br>
* What OS do you use for development?<br>
* What compiler do you use?<br>
* Have you built the blender sources before?<br>
* Do you have an IRC nickname?<br>
* What is your p.b.o username? (see above)<br>
* Feel free to include any other info you think<br>
it might be useful to share.<br>
<br>
Again, congratulations to the students, and many<br>
thanks to those who have agreed to be mentors, and<br>
also thanks to those other interested parties who<br>
have helped evaluate proposals.<br>
<br>
More to come later ...<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Chris<br>
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</blockquote></div><br>Hi,<br><br>I'm Chingiz. My project is Collada Support Improvements For Blender.<br><br>* Have you every used subversion before?<br>Not yet, but Arystan did and he says he'll explain me.<br>
<br>* What OS do you use for development?<br>
Debian Linux<br><br>* What compiler do you use?<br>gcc<br><br>* Have you built the blender sources before?<br>ditto as the first question<br><br>* Do you have an IRC nickname?<br>yes, chingachgook<br><br>* What is your p.b.o username? (see above)<br>
chingachgook<br>
<br>* Will you be working from trunk (2.49) or from the 2.5 branch (I
assume most of you will work on 2.5, if you don't know, talk to your
mentor).<br>Though we haven't discussed this yet, I think it's 2.5<br><br>
* Would you like to have your branch now (if you plan on starting
working in advance or if you already have) or only later (around the
official GSOC start date)?<br>Yes, I would like to have it now because Collada DOM needs to be integrated first.<br><br>I want to wish luck to all students participating in Blender GSOC this year.<br>