[Bf-committers] Looking for a bachelor thesis

[Michele Fenu]

Thank you all for tips, ideas and suggestions.

Before studying computer science, I studied digital cinematography and I'm
currently working in video and motion graphics as a freelancer. After
bachelor's degree I would like to continue in a master's degree in Virtual
Reality, with the (ambitious) intent to "merge" the two careers.

My interests are mainly in mixing real images with computer generated
worlds (camera mapping, motion tracking, motion capture, etc.), arguments
with which I've a lot of experience as a end user but I've no idea where to
start as a developer.

As I said in the first mail, I have no practical experience in team
collaboration, and my problem is to find a project that is suitable for me,
so i asked your help. I see this as an opportunity to learn how to
contribute to an open source project, possibly making something useful and
without wasting developers time with too many newbie problems. :)

As Ton suggested, i can take some time to deep read the wiki (and make some
coding tests) before proceeding.

Thank you again

ps: 200 hours is the amount of time expected by ECTS, but i've planned to
discuss the final project in october and i have eventually some
sleep/social-relations time to spend on the project (or preliminary
learning activities) if necessary ;)


On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org> wrote:

> Hi Michele,
>
> I don't think it's very useful to give you a random number of ideas.
> First give a pitch yourself, describing your interest areas and past
> achievements.
>
> 200 hours is really not much, that's like 1 month only. So be able to "hit
> the floor running" is essential.
>
> Investigate what Blender already does, check our development wiki,
> especially the todo section.
> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.5/Source/Development/Todo
>
> -Ton-
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Ton Roosendaal  Blender Foundation   ton at blender.org    www.blender.org
> Blender Institute   Entrepotdok 57A  1018AD Amsterdam   The Netherlands
>
> On 11 Mar, 2013, at 11:25, Michele Fenu wrote:
>
> > Hi blender developers,
> > I'm looking for a bachelor thesis for my Computer Science degree at
> > University of Turin.
> >
> > This may be my first time with open source development and I don't know
> how
> > I can contribute to this community, but I have about 200 hours to spend
> on
> > the project and I'd really like to receive any suggestions on which
> field i
> > can contribute to.
> >
> > At the beginning I was thinking to develop a plug-in, but almost all
> ideas
> > I've had were already developed by someone else (e.g. sapling, or camera
> > calibration), so I decided to write this email.
> >
> > Any help will be appreciated ;)
> >
> > Thank you in advance,
> > Michele
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