Slashdot Mirror
Google Names Winners For Summer of Code 2011
akgraner writes "Google has announced the accepted projects list for its 2011 Google Summer of Code (GSOC) Program. Ryan Rix emailed the Fedora announce mailing list to let users know Fedora was one of the projects that had been selected, while Daniel Holbach informed Ubuntu users via his blog that Ubuntu had not been selected."
If you are a talented coder who has an interested in graphics; simulation; animation; painting; video editing; digital compositing; game engines; AI; or just about anything else related to 3D animation; video editing and compositing; or games you might consider applying for Blender.
Here is a preliminary list of ideas, we are open to suggestions (in general only half of the proposals we recieve are items on the list) especially if it is something that you worked on for a school project.
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php?title=Dev:Ref/GoogleSummerOfCode/2011/Ideas
I can't speak for other projects, but I think Rockbox (a digital audio player firmware) got some good work done last year. I built a new parser for their theme language and a graphical theme editor that's got some regular users. Another student successfully ported Rockbox to Android as an app. I'm sure other projects saw success as well.
incredibly useful. This is hands down the most easy way for us (JavaPathfinder) to get interns funded, and students are generally very motivated. For example, from GSoC'10 we got an interactive debugger interface for the model checker ala gdb - serious stuff. The most valuable thing for us is to learn about new talent. We even hired some of them subsequently, which was much better to justify on the basis of successful GSoC projects.
Specifically, my X.org student last year did some great work in the r300g Gallium driver for Mesa, and is still a developer in the project to this day. There's a single success story. I'm sure the other several thousand success stories will be along shortly.
~ C.