[Bf-committers] GSoC 2018 - deadline for orgs January 23

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi everyone,

It's time of the year again. Looks like GSoC starts earlier each year.
We just have two more weeks to finish the application!

I've done all the forms already. I will also check with the team here in the studio to make a fun "onboarding" video, explaining where to find everything and how to get involved.

What needs to be done in the next weeks is:
- get a list of mentor candidates (people who review proposals). Contact me!
- present an ideas page

To start, I copied most of the ideas over from last year:
https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/GoogleSummerOfCode/2018/Ideas

Please check and update! Remember, it's not a feature request listing, it should be projects supported by the module teams, with mentors candidates.

I also want to propose to improve the GSoC experience in some ways:

- Active recruitment locally on you university or your city - especially studios/companies who use Blender can be co-mentoring students as well. Get your own well paid intern!
- Actively recruiting among students who already work with Blender (code).
- Be more strict to student applicants. They should really bring in experience and knowledge.
- GSoC is not an introduction to become a developer! 
- But we should also keep proposed projects simple and feasible. And it has to fit 2.8.
- Get students to work on projects a mentor is also working on. That way mentorship goes more natural.

Laters,

-Ton-

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Ton Roosendaal  -  ton at blender.org   -   www.blender.org
Chairman Blender Foundation, Director Blender Institute
Entrepotdok 57A, 1018 AD, Amsterdam, the Netherlands