Re: [AD] Any Allegro interest in GSoC 2011?

[scottmc <scottmc2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Thomas Fjellstrom
<tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On January 24, 2011, Elias Pschernig wrote:
>> On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 15:16 -0800, scott mc wrote:
>> > I've noticed that Allegro hasn't been part of Google Summer of Code.
>> > Have you ever applied or thought about applying?  Google announced
>> > earlier today that they are going to have GSoC again this year:
>> > http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2011/01/google-summer-of-code-annou
>> > nced-at-lca.html Here's their FAQ:
>> > http://www.google-melange.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2011/
>> > faqs I attended the Google Summer of Code mentor summit representing
>> > Haiku in 2010 and it sounded like they were looking to expand the
>> > program in 2011, perhaps doubling the size, but after discussion it
>> > seemed the consensus was that the program could expand by 20-30% or so
>> > and still get decent quality projects from the students.  I'm not sure
>> > how much if any Google has decided to expand it or not.  In 2010 I think
>> > there were 150 orgs that participated, with 300-400 applying.
>>
>> Our problem in previous years was that we had no mentor volunteers nor
>> any students interested in it. Being a mentor is a lot of work after all
>> - need to come up with possible ideas and formulate them, read through
>> all the google stuff, with various deadlines and so on and then finally
>> look after the student.
>>
>> Anyway, if anyone wants to be a GSoC mentor for Allegro or has an idea
>> what to work on as a student, there won't be any opposition from us :)
>
> If I see any interest in it from students I may be interested in co-mentoring
> with someone else.
>
> --
> Thomas Fjellstrom
> tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx
>

I dug up this old thread, as we put on the Haiku GSoC 2012 possible
project list to have a student bring the Haiku Allegro port up to 5.x.
 We have a student who has submitted a proposal to do this project.
So I am here now asking if there's anyone who is familiar with the
Allegro code base, who who be willing to co-mentor this project with a
Haiku mentor?  We had a similar project last summer to bring the Haiku
SDL2.0 port up to date and that student passed.  The student who
submitted the Allegro proposal may or may not make the cut, just
looking to see if we can get a co-mentor involved to help review the
proposal.

-scottmc

(Scott McCreary from Haiku and HaikuPorts.)