<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi everyone,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is the official mailing list for the GSoC 2018. In this list we mostly handle organizational, practical and planning topics for a smooth Summer of Code. If you have a message you really want everyone to read, use this list.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Everyone is welcome to join this list and participate. Subscribe info you can find below. </div><div class="">(This is the only time I cross-post in bf-commiters.)</div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For the daily communication, we recommend everyone to make use of the new DevTalk forum for actual discussions, feedback, questions and (later on) weekly reports. </div></div><div class=""><a href="https://devtalk.blender.org/c/blender/gsoc" class="">https://devtalk.blender.org/c/blender/gsoc</a></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">And of course we have our popular IRC channel, #blendercoders on <a href="http://irc.freenode.net" class="">irc.freenode.net</a>.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We have 5 students participating this year. </div><div class="">The students are:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Yiming Wu, will be working on </span><a href="https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/dashboard/organization/4824370443190272/proposal/6546342348849152/" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Blender NPR Line Rendering Improvement</a><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Mentors: Ton Roosendaal, Joshua Leung</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Rohan Rathi, will be working on </span><a href="https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/dashboard/organization/4824370443190272/proposal/4585028554588160/" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Bevel Modifier Improvements</a><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Mentors: Howard Trickey, Bastien Montagne</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Geraldine Chua, will be working on </span><a href="https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/dashboard/organization/4824370443190272/proposal/6423025180737536/" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Further Development for Cycles' Volume Rendering</a><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">.</span></div><div class="">Mentor:Lukas Stockner</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Leonardo Segovia, will be working on </span><a href="https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/dashboard/organization/4824370443190272/proposal/4664546451521536/" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Implementing a Hair Shader for Cycles</a><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Mentors: Brecht van Lommel, Lukas Stockner</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Erik Englesson, will be working on </span><a href="https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/dashboard/organization/4824370443190272/proposal/5953935697772544/" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Many Light Sampling</a><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">.</span></div><div class=""><div class=""><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Mentors: Brecht van Lommel, Lukas Stockner</span></div></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" class="">(The dropout student was going to work on optimising Python I/O... too bad, we had other good students apply for it).</font></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="">For Cycles we could add another Mentor on the list though, I will ask around.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Students: please send a short reply to this list to notify you received the mail. You will be contacted soon about git access and a wiki account. (Each of you will get an own branch to work in).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Community bonding period started. I expect to see you in our channels soon.</div><div class="">Have fun!</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">-Ton-<br class=""><br class="">--------------------------------------------------------<br class="">Ton Roosendaal - <a href="mailto:ton@blender.org" class="">ton@blender.org</a> - <a href="http://www.blender.org" class="">www.blender.org</a><br class="">Chairman Blender Foundation, Director Blender Institute<br class="">Buikslotermeerplein 161, 1025 ET Amsterdam, the Netherlands</div><br class=""></div></div></body></html>