Hi all GSoC 2017 mentor org registration has opened a few days ago
Our current ideas page lists just a single mentor and single sugestion http://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/SponsoringPrograms/GSoC/2017 About the Suggested project It is a hard design task which few students would be capable to do. I dont know if someone already knows a student who is qualified for this and who would be available in FFmpeg GSoC but if not I think finding a qualified student will be hard or require some luck and success with a less than qualified student unlikely. At least thats what my gut feeling says based on past years About the number of ideas one is not enough, and i think its a waste of time if we apply with such short list, i doubt we would be accepted with one idea and one mentor About the number of mentors one is not enough we should have at least twice as many voluneer mentors as we want to have accepted projects as each project needs mentor and backup mentor. In some of the past years I asked people one by one to find volunteers, thats surprissingly alot of work so we need a more efficient way. Can we make a list of potential Mentors on the wiki ? We will likely need to specify the number of potential mentors when registering FFmpeg to GSoC 2017, we did had to in previous years. I also suspect the number of slots we get is bound to a fraction of this number so it is important that this number is correct and not smaller from people being lazy and waiting till we know what students and actual project proposals are available to us IIRC google suggests that ideas pages are writen and maintained year round. Now we have a list but some develoeprs seem to oppose some of these old ideas, I would expect that for each objection against an old idea a new has to be provided and the one objecting should volunteer as mentor for it. Otherwise we might be short on ideas and mentors -- Michael GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB In fact, the RIAA has been known to suggest that students drop out of college or go to community college in order to be able to afford settlements. -- The RIAA
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