On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 7:45 AM, Michael Niedermayer <michae...@gmx.at> wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 03:39:09PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote: > > 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 > > ok so our page now contains > 4 project ideas and 3 mentors > big thanks to the people volunteering and adding them > > Can we get a few more ? > Ideal would be numbers similar to previous years > We wont have a student for each idea we list most likely. > If we list just 4 we might have just 1 or 2 students, having a > wider range of ideas to select from would increase the number of > contributions and number of potential new developers joining.
One idea would be to finish rest of the ALS codec tasks. What's remaining is :- 1. Implement RLS LMS mode in the decoder. 2. Get the encoder merged into the main repository. 3. Encoder featureset still lacks support for floating point sample data encoding. - Umair _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
