[Bf-committers] GSoC students: welcome!

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi students,

Quick follow-up; this weekend I will set up a mailing list for GSoC 2018.
Community bonding period started, please check on our existing channels!

https://www.blender.org/get-involved/developers/

Most of our contributors use IRC. New is our 'discourse' forum on devtalk.blender.org. Warmly recommended too.

News: we already have one dropout... Abdulrahman Al-Sharabati (nick alekulyn, fast I/O) accepted another job last minute, too late to inform Google so we could select one of the other good I/O proposals. Google took this as feedback from us on board, in cases like this we would have really preferred to then have a backup candidate. There were 8 proposals for the IO topic, of which at least half eligible.

Laters,

-Ton-

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Ton Roosendaal  -  ton at blender.org   -   www.blender.org
Chairman Blender Foundation, Director Blender Institute
Buikslotermeerplein 161, 1025 ET Amsterdam, the Netherlands

> On 23 Apr 2018, at 19:48, Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> We have six students accepted for a GSoC code grant.
> The overview you can find here:
> 
> https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/4824370443190272/#projects
> 
> Congrats to the students! We will contact you soon with more info. 
> 
> Also a special thanks to all the other students who submitted proposals. In the end it's always a difficult decision. We just picked what we all agreed on was "a convincing proposal that makes us really enthusiastic" and "with sufficient mentors available".
> 
> The proposals that were OK-ish but had pluses and minuses didn't make it for that reason. We unfortunately have a lack of mentors here, which makes it even more evident to not accept proposals from students that would need a lot of guidance and mentoring. 
> 
> Of course everyone is very welcome to join the blender.org as a volunteer. Check "get involved" on blender.org. 
> 
> Laters,
> 
> -Ton-
> 
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> Ton Roosendaal  -  ton at blender.org   -   www.blender.org
> Chairman Blender Foundation, Director Blender Institute
> Buikslotermeerplein 161, 1025 ET Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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