ogg dev - May 2006 - Google Summer of Code with Xiph.org

All,

I'm pleased to announce that Xiph.org has been selected as a mentoring
organization for the 2006 Google Summer of Code program. So if you need
a summer job, and there's something about free multimedia that's been
bugging you, here's your chance!

We've put up some project ideas for things we'd like to see in the wiki

  http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/Summer_of_Code

But of course you're welcome to submit proposals for original or 
modified projects as well. Feel free to discuss ideas here on the
public lists, or privately with the listed mentors before submitting
officially.

Google is now taking applications. You can apply by signing in here:

  http://code.google.com/soc/

With your google account info. If you don't already have one you can
register a new account (including using an external, non-gmail address)
here:

  https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount

You'll need cookies and such.

You submit a proposal, our mentors will rank them, and then google will 
decide what to fund. See the drupal project's http://drupal.org/node/59037
and http://drupal.org/node/59963 for some excellent advice on preparing 
your application. More information and a complete list of mentoring 
organizations is available at http://code.google.com/soc/

We're looking forward to having some funded projects this summer, so 
good luck!

 -r

On 5/25/06, Dominik Zalewski <dominikz@amu.edu.pl>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm a person that applied for Google SoC 2006. Unfortunately I did not
> get accepted. If you are wondering what my proposal was here are the
> details:
>
>   http://atos.wmid.amu.edu.pl/~dominikz/stream-of-roses.pdf
>   http://atos.wmid.amu.edu.pl/~dominikz/resume.pdf
>
> I would like to contact some person that was responsible for reviewing
> and ranking my application. I understand there were some issues that
> made other applicants highly ranked. I just would like to know what
> was the problem with my application to be better prepared for the next
> year.
Hi Dominik,

I've trimmed the CC list here a lot, since this has nothing to do with
most of the lists you emailed it to.

Your application was interesting, but - like all the other
organisations involved in SoC - Xiph got a LOT of high quality
applications. In the end, the decisions were made mostly on both
application quality, AND priority for getting these things done within
Xiph.

As for the specifics of your application: clearly, you put a lot of
thought and effort into it. One worry that some of us had was that a
pure simulation tends not to model enough of the complex network
effects to develop a useful real-world model. Also, Xiph is not,
primarily, a research organisation - while we do research within the
organisation, it's always with the intent of a real, usable, bit of
software at the end.

If you want to develop this anyway, I don't think we'd have any
problem with allowing you access to our SVN server, etc. We discussed,
before the deadline, explicitly offering to help out the people who we
were unable to accept in the SoC program anyway - though we can't
offer any money.

Mike

Hi,

I'm a person that applied for Google SoC 2006. Unfortunately I did not
get accepted. If you are wondering what my proposal was here are the
details:

  http://atos.wmid.amu.edu.pl/~dominikz/stream-of-roses.pdf
  http://atos.wmid.amu.edu.pl/~dominikz/resume.pdf

I would like to contact some person that was responsible for reviewing
and ranking my application. I understand there were some issues that
made other applicants highly ranked. I just would like to know what
was the problem with my application to be better prepared for the next
year.

The main disadvantages of my application that I can think of now is:
* I'm not currently involved in any open-source project and I did not
do any coding for xiph.org.

Anyway, I would like to do my project anyway. Is there a possibility
of hosting by your organization: CVS, etc.?

Best regards

-- 
Dominik Zalewski

On 5/1/06, Ralph Giles <giles@xiph.org> wrote:
> All,
>
> I'm pleased to announce that Xiph.org has been selected as a mentoring
> organization for the 2006 Google Summer of Code program. So if you need
> a summer job, and there's something about free multimedia that's
been
> bugging you, here's your chance!
>
> We've put up some project ideas for things we'd like to see in the
wiki
>
>   http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/Summer_of_Code
>
> But of course you're welcome to submit proposals for original or
> modified projects as well. Feel free to discuss ideas here on the
> public lists, or privately with the listed mentors before submitting
> officially.
>
> Google is now taking applications. You can apply by signing in here:
>
>   http://code.google.com/soc/
>
> With your google account info. If you don't already have one you can
> register a new account (including using an external, non-gmail address)
> here:
>
>   https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount
>
> You'll need cookies and such.
>
> You submit a proposal, our mentors will rank them, and then google will
> decide what to fund. See the drupal project's
http://drupal.org/node/59037
> and http://drupal.org/node/59963 for some excellent advice on preparing
> your application. More information and a complete list of mentoring
> organizations is available at http://code.google.com/soc/
>
> We're looking forward to having some funded projects this summer, so
> good luck!
>
>  -r
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