[Soc-2010-dev] congratulations and intro

[Tom M]

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Hi all,

Congratulations to the successful Summer of Code applicants!

Here is the list of the accepted students in alphabetical order, their
project, and the individual who has agreed to help mentor them.  With
your help we hope to make this the most successful GSoC yet.

Student --------Project Name-------------------- Mentor Name
Jason Wilkins - 3D Sculpting tools - Tom Musgrove
Joshua Leung - Bullet Construction Toolkit - Martin Poirier
Joerg Mueller - Game Engine API - Campbell Barton
Konrad Kleine - Paint Tools upgrade - Robert Holcomb
Leif Andersen - Unit Tests - Andrea Weikert
Mike Erwin - Input device improvements - Matt Ebb
Mitchell Stokes - BE Shader work - Dalai Felinto
Nicholas Bishop - Multi-resolution improvements - Brecht Van Lommel
Nick Samarin - Recast & Detour - Benoit Bolsee
Rohith B V - Quad remeshing - Daniel Genrich

We have some time before the Summer of Code program officially starts
for the year, but in the meantime I thought it would be useful to get
the mailing lists, etc., in place, and also to send a "ping" to the
students to make sure that there aren't any communication issues that
should be solved sooner rather than later.

As you can tell, I've subscribed you to a Summer of Code mailing list
that we'll use through out the summer -- more about this list here:

http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/soc-2010-dev

Two other mailing lists that you are very strongly advised to
subscribe to are the Blender development list,  and the Blender cvs
list (sorry, you have to subscribe yourself):

http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-blender-cvs

Commit log mails for Summer of Code go to the (poorly named)
bf-blender-cvs mailing list mentioned above.

If you don't have a p.b.o (projects.blender.org) account, please sign
up for one and send your username to this list. If you already have an
account, please send your username:

http://projects.blender.org

Another resource is irc: most of the mentors visit #blendercoders
channel on irc.freenode.net.

Here are some IRC handles of some of the SoC mentors and some other
helpful developers:

Ton Roosendaal - kaito
Martin Poirier - theeth
Brecht von Lommel - brecht
Campbell Barton - ideasman_42
Nathan Letwory - jester[King,Dad]
Matt Ebb - matt_e
Joe Eagar - joeedh
Ken Hughes - khpylon
Daniel Genrich - gencher
Geoff Bantle - Briggs
Andrea Weikert - elubie
Kent Mein - sirdude
Benoit Bolsee - ben2610
Erwin Coumans - erwin_bullet
Chris Want - cwant
Dalai Felinto - dfelinto
Tom Musgrove - letterrip

We have weekly coding meetings in the #blendercoders channel on
Sundays at 16:00 CEST (14:00 GMT, 08:00 MST, 07:00 PST -- if your time
zone isn't listed, please try to figure out the meeting time).

There are also development forums on 'w.b.o' (http://www.blender.org/)
and Blender Artists
(http://blenderartists.org/forum/).

As part of my "ping" to the students, this would also be a good time
to get some information from you, so if you have a moment sometime
this week could you please send a mail to this list saying "Hi", and
answering the following questions:

* Have you every used subversion before?
* What OS do you use for development?
* What compiler do you use?
* Have you built the blender sources before?
* Do you have an IRC nickname?
* What is your p.b.o username? (see above)
* Feel free to include any other info you think
it might be useful to share.

For those of you new to the blender code base, here are some links to
help get you started

http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.5/Doc/Developers_Quickstart

Again, congratulations to the students, and many thanks to those who
have agreed to be mentors, and also thanks to those other interested
parties who have helped evaluate proposals.

More to come later ...

Thanks,

Tom Musgrove
LetterRip

Also thanks to Chris Want whom I've liberally copy and pasted his
welcome message from last year