[Soc-2011-dev] congratulations and welcome

[Sven von Brand]

Thinking about the question about the compiler, I use scons to build
blender (but scons is not a compiler), I use gcc usually to compile
projects.

On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Sven von Brand <svbrandl at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Tom M <letterrip at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I seem to have forgot the welcome message that Chris started for GSoC
>> - so better late than never :)
>>
>> ***********
>> 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.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> 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
>
> done
>
>> 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:
>
> svbrand
>
>> [...]
>> 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?
>
> yes, for some school projects and in an internship in a web development company.
>
>> * What OS do you use for development?
>
> Linux, Fedora.
>
>> * What compiler do you use?
>
> Scons
>
>> * Have you built the blender sources before?
>
> Yes, in 2008 for the first time, for a school project, and some times
> after that to test some things.
>
>> * 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.
>
> thanks for all you're good will and confidence in us!
>
>> More to come later ...
>>
>> Thanks,
>
> bye
>
> --
> Sven von Brand
>