{"id":535,"date":"2008-03-17T14:44:05","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T22:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/ffmpeg-hazing-ritual\/"},"modified":"2008-03-17T14:44:57","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T22:44:57","slug":"ffmpeg-hazing-ritual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/ffmpeg-hazing-ritual\/","title":{"rendered":"FFmpeg Hazing Ritual"},"content":{"rendered":"

The pilot for an American TV show called Greek<\/em><\/a> was a free download on Apple iTunes recently. I’m just as eager as the next open source software developer to brainlessly give a try to free stuff, so I checked it out. The show centers around some participants in the Greek-lettered fraternity and sorority system present on many college campuses. Hazing<\/a> plays a role.<\/p>\n


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This caused me to consider FFmpeg<\/a> and the Google Summer of Code<\/a> in the context of fraternities. GSoC is a college activity, like the Greek system. Participation might help your career along, post-school (an alleged rationale for joining a fraternity). And if you want to be initiated into the FFmpeg brotherhood, you are required to submit to a ritual known as the qualification task.<\/p>\n

This would be a good time to mention that FFmpeg has been accepted into the GSoC<\/a> for a third year in a row. Students who have any interest in working on a summer FFmpeg project on Google’s dime need to make their interest known on the ffmpeg-devel list<\/a> and publicly claim a qualification hazing ritual.<\/p>\n

Also, it seems that the x264 project<\/a> wants in on some of the GSoC action, as indicated by their new adjunct Wiki page<\/a>. This only creates ever more exciting opportunities. Wouldn’t you like to be a part?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The pilot for an American TV show called Greek was a free download on Apple iTunes recently. I’m just as eager as the next open source software developer to brainlessly give a try to free stuff, so I checked it out. The show centers around some participants in the Greek-lettered fraternity and sorority system present […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-source-multimedia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t