Looking for GSOC mentors

SDL Development
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Hi SDLers,

this year I’ll be preparing the Google Summer of Code 2013 application
for SDL.

To help with this effort, I am looking for a few additional mentors.
Mentors would be expected to tentatively commit to GSOC 2013 by the end
of this week and should also supply a project idea which will be posted
and submitted with the application. If SDL gets accepted (April 8th),
mentors would need to commit to participate in student selection
(April-May) as well as mentoring (June-September) and final evaluations.
Mentors don’t get paid (students do), but can apply to attend the mentor
summit in Mountain View (October) which paid for by Google and a lot of
fun.

Mentors should have experience with coding and SDL, have fixed a bug or
submitted a patch (preferably accepted), be sociable within the FOSS
community and able to help students succeed. Prospective mentors, keep
in mind that with the SDL 2.0 release pending, the theme of project
ideas this year should be less about fancy new features but more around
quality, usability and stabilization within the SDL 2.0 codebase (i.e. a
visual testing, Cmake builds, game examples, etc.). Also note that you’d
be expected to be able to take a lead mentoring role should your
proposed idea find a matching student.

Below are a few references about GSOC and mentoring. If anyone on this
list is interested, please drop me a direct email.

Thanks,
Andreas

References:
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013
http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/AdviceforMentors
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/accepted_orgs/google/gsoc2012

2

Hi SDLers,

this year I’ll be preparing the Google Summer of Code 2013 application for
SDL.

To help with this effort, I am looking for a few additional mentors.
Mentors would be expected to tentatively commit to GSOC 2013 by the end of
this week and should also supply a project idea which will be posted and
submitted with the application. If SDL gets accepted (April 8th), mentors
would need to commit to participate in student selection (April-May) as
well as mentoring (June-September) and final evaluations. Mentors don’t get
paid (students do), but can apply to attend the mentor summit in Mountain
View (October) which paid for by Google and a lot of fun.

Mentors should have experience with coding and SDL, have fixed a bug or
submitted a patch (preferably accepted), be sociable within the FOSS
community and able to help students succeed. Prospective mentors, keep in
mind that with the SDL 2.0 release pending, the theme of project ideas this
year should be less about fancy new features but more around quality,
usability and stabilization within the SDL 2.0 codebase (i.e. a visual
testing, Cmake builds, game examples, etc.). Also note that you’d be
expected to be able to take a lead mentoring role should your proposed idea
find a matching student.

Below are a few references about GSOC and mentoring. If anyone on this
list is interested, please drop me a direct email.

Thanks,
Andreas

It’s great that SDL is participating in GSoC again! SDL vouched for
Hedgewars the first time it applied and I am always grateful for that.
After a two year experience, I must say is a great opportunity for mentors
and students together and the summit is a lot of fun indeed!
If you’ve got some experience with SDL and you are not mentoring another
project, please lend a hand!

Andreas, do you have a list of possible project ideas already or are you
looking for a few inputs as well?
Best,
VittorioOn Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 7:23 AM, Andreas Schiffler wrote:

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This year’s project ideas all center around
testing/bugfixing/solidifying rather than adding fancy new features. The
goal is to not introduce more issues into a “release branch” by adding
experimental features, but make SDL 2.0 the cool functional release.

As Sam put it a few days ago:
We’d like enterprising young developers to fix the code previous GSoC
students have left behind! Sign up now for fame and glory!

There are also a few more ideas around the new test framework as well as
potentially some CMake work.
We are still working on the final text/list.

–AndreasOn 3/22/2013 2:10 AM, Vittorio Giovara wrote:

On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 7:23 AM, Andreas Schiffler <@Andreas_Schiffler mailto:Andreas_Schiffler> wrote:

Hi SDLers,

this year I'll be preparing the Google Summer of Code 2013
application for SDL.

To help with this effort, I am looking for a few additional
mentors. Mentors would be expected to tentatively commit to GSOC
2013 by the end of this week and should also supply a project idea
which will be posted and submitted with the application. If SDL
gets accepted (April 8th), mentors would need to commit to
participate in student selection (April-May) as well as mentoring
(June-September) and final evaluations. Mentors don't get paid
(students do), but can apply to attend the mentor summit in
Mountain View (October) which paid for by Google and a lot of fun.

Mentors should have experience with coding and SDL, have fixed a
bug or submitted a patch (preferably accepted), be sociable within
the FOSS community and able to help students succeed. Prospective
mentors, keep in mind that with the SDL 2.0 release pending, the
theme of project ideas this year should be less about fancy new
features but more around quality, usability and stabilization
within the SDL 2.0 codebase (i.e. a visual testing, Cmake builds,
game examples, etc.). Also note that you'd be expected to be able
to take a lead mentoring role should your proposed idea find a
matching student.

Below are a few references about GSOC and mentoring. If anyone on
this list is interested, please drop me a direct email.

Thanks,
Andreas

It’s great that SDL is participating in GSoC again! SDL vouched for
Hedgewars the first time it applied and I am always grateful for that.
After a two year experience, I must say is a great opportunity for
mentors and students together and the summit is a lot of fun indeed!
If you’ve got some experience with SDL and you are not mentoring
another project, please lend a hand!

Andreas, do you have a list of possible project ideas already or are
you looking for a few inputs as well?
Best,
Vittorio

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