[Bf-committers] Participating in GSOC

[Campbell Barton]

On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 4:35 AM, Daniel McNeela <daniel.mcneela at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> My name is Daniel McNeela, and I'm a rising senior at the University of
> California, Berkeley studying applied mathematics and computer science. I
> used Blender frequently in middle school and high school to learn about 3d
> graphics and animation, so I'm excited to learn more about its development.
>
> I have a couple of questions about contributing for anyone who's
> knowledgeable about the project.
>
> 1. I don't currently have access to a desktop machine, and I use my laptop
> for the majority of my coding work. As such, I don't have a dedicated
> graphics card, and I don't know if this will lead to issues with actually
> running Blender for testing purposes. Would this likely be a great
> impediment to contributing?
>
> 2. For projects, would you suggest I stick to the ones outlined on the
> project ideas page, or are proposals for other ideas welcomed as well?
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Daniel

As long as a recent build of Blender runs and you're not intending to
work on functionality that *requires* newer OpenGL,
then you should be fine.


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- Campbell