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

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

The projects are here:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/GoogleSummerOfCode/2017 <http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/GoogleSummerOfCode/2017>

We're putting all our efforts in 2.8x now, merging new features (including these from last year GSoC) has to wait.

-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

> On 10 Jan 2018, at 16:45, Yury Baranov <cucumberer at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Can we please have somewhat like conclusion post/thread for last GSoC
> (2017)? what projects are done and likely to be included in main branch
> soon (or not soon)?
> 
> 2018-01-10 18:14 GMT+03:00 Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org>:
> 
>> 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
>> 
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