On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 07:13:50PM +0200, Giorgio Vazzana wrote: > Hi Michael, > > 2014-10-12 18:11 GMT+02:00 Michael Niedermayer <michae...@gmx.at>: > > On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 05:49:54PM +0200, Giorgio Vazzana wrote: > >> 2014-10-12 2:18 GMT+02:00 Michael Niedermayer <michae...@gmx.at>: > >> > Hi > >> > > >> > On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 02:51:36AM +0530, Nikita Mantri wrote: > >> >> Hi, > >> >> I am a 4th year B.Tech. student. As a part of gnome-opw 2015 programme, > >> >> I > >> >> would like to contribute to one of the development projects that is > >> >> listed > >> >> on the website. I have decided to contribute to the symmetric-key block > >> >> ciphers project as i have an intermediate knowledge of cryptography. I > >> >> have > >> >> done a research project in cryptography and security primitives during > >> >> my > >> >> research internship period. I would be obliged if you will help me in > >> >> start > >> >> contributing to this project. > >> > > >> > there are already 2 other potential applicants for > >> > "symmetric-key block ciphers", but if you want to try anyway, please > >> > choose a related qualification task, like some hash function or > >> > symmetric block cypher that FFmpeg doesnt support yet and that > >> > noone else has picked as their qualification task. > >> > > >> > also, if you start working on a qualification task please add yourself > >> > to the wiki > >> > > >> > also note that for qualification to be passed the code for the > >> > qualification task has to be submited here and pass review, this > >> > may take multiple iterations and has to happen before slot(s) are > >> > assigned to applicants. > >> > > >> > Giorgio may have more or other comments, he is the mentor of the > >> > "symmetric-key block ciphers" task ... > >> > >> Hello Nikita, > >> > >> thanks for your email. As Michael pointed out we already have two > >> potential applicants for the "Symmetric-key block ciphers" project and > >> I feel like I've reached the number of people I want to mentor in one > >> round (allright, I didn't think this project would turn out to be so > >> popular!) > > > > note, its unlikely that more than one applicant for > > "symmetric-key block ciphers" will get a slot, though it could happen > > if there are 2 who submit very impressive qualification tasks and > > theres noone submitting a good qualification task for something else > > and if we do have enough slots ... > > Thanks, now it's more clear. Do we already know the total number of > OPW slots for ffmpeg?
no we will have 1 for certain, a second is IMHO quite plausible if we have a 2nd qualified applicant for some project, 3 slots seem unlikely at this point this is my personal guess from the information ive read so far ... [...] -- Michael GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults. -- Antisthenes
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