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Google has announced their Summer of Code, 2008 edition<\/a>. The mentor organization application process begins on Monday, March 3 and I will be right there, ready with our group’s app. My FFmpeg<\/a> cohorts and myself have been busily assembling a new Wiki page<\/a> detailing what prospective students might do for the project, should FFmpeg be accepted as a mentoring organization for a third year. Like last year, we will be enforcing the requirement that students must successfully complete a qualification task in order to be considered for a project. I feel like I live in sort of a bubble these days, but I am becoming increasingly aware that straight-up, performance-minded C programming seems to be a dying art and we can’t necessarily count of students knowing the language already when they apply for the project.<\/p>\n


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Of course, you are free to add to the list, either in the 2nd tier proposals section or the qualification tasks. But don’t bother adding anything under the 1st tier proposals unless<\/em> you are willing to mentor the project. Anyone can toss out any idea. But we need project ideas that can be plausibly completed by a talented student over the course of a summer, and we need mentors who will commit. As for qualification tasks, remember that these are bite-sized pieces of work that would ideally take a seasoned FFmpeg developer a few hours at most to complete. If you create a new qualification task, please<\/em> put some detail into it. Look at it from the perspective of a new student who may not be up to speed on FFmpeg. A qualification task of “fix XYZ thing” is quite bewildering. Expound just a little bit. Remember to link to other pages within the Wiki.<\/p>\n

I logged into my SoC mentor dashboard for the first time in a long time. It claimed that I had not completed my final program survey from last year, even though I’m quite certain that I did (I wonder if that’s why I never saw my mentor money?). Anyway, one of the questions:<\/p>\n

What advice would you give to future would-be Summer of Code mentoring organizations? (required)<\/em><\/p>\n

I don’t remember my answer last time, but this is the most honest answer that came to mind this time: “Don’t try to compete with us for prize students. FFmpeg is a sexier project — an alpha project, if you will — and you won’t beat us.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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