[Soc-2011-dev] congratulations and welcome

[Tom M]

I seem to have forgot the welcome message that Chris started for GSoC
- so better late than never :)

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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
Benjamin Cook (benjcook) - Motion Capture Import & Workflow - Campbell
Barton ( ideasman_42 )
Christopher Neal	(TurboKnight) - Fluid Simulation improvements -
Daniel Genrich ( genscher )
Dan Walters (dan_w)	       - retopology tools
  - Joe Eager (joeedh)
Daniel Stokes (kupoman) - GE bug fixing and small features      -
Dalai Felinto ( dfelinto )
Jason Hays -                     The Weight Painting Project	
 - Campbell Barton ( ideasman_42 )
Jason Wilkins ( phoenix_ ) - General Enhancements for Paint and Sculpt
- Tom Musgrove ( LetterRip)
Joerg Mueller (neXyon)     - 3D Audio
   - Martin Poirier ( theeth )
Joshua Lueng (Aligorith)    - Animation System Polish              -
Bassam Kurdali ( bassam )
Matthias Fauconneau (MatthiasF) - API and 2D Tracker Improvements for
libmv - Julien Michot (jmichot)
Miika Hamalainen (MiikaH) - Dynamic Paint                            -
Janne Karhu ( jahka )
Mitchell Stokes (Moguri) - BGE Animation Improvements         - Dalai
Felinto ( dfelinto )
PR Jayathilake (phabtar) - Full COLLADA Animation support for Blender
- Nathan Letwory ( jesterking )
Riakiotakis Antonis (Psy-Fi) - paint, uv and weight tool improvements
- Tom Musgrove ( LetterRip)
Sergey Sharybin (nazg_gul)	- Camera tracking integration          -
Ton Roosendal (ton)
Shuvro Sarker (shuvro) - Automatic Seam Creation for UV Unwrapping -
Andrea Weikert ( elubie )
Sven von Brand (svbrand) -Ge Nodes
- Benoit Bolsee ( ben2610 )
Xiao Xiangquan - Improved Internationalization and Localization - Kent
Mein ( sirdude )

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-2011-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
Daniel Genrich - genscher
Joe Eager - joeedh
Janne Karhu - jahka

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/).

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? (If I have it above, you can ignore)
* 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