[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Google Summer of Code 2014 application

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sat, Feb 08, 2014 at 09:30:19PM +0100, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> On date Saturday 2014-02-08 13:55:27 +1100, Peter Ross encoded:
> > On Sat, Feb 08, 2014 at 12:59:21AM +0100, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> [...]
> > Otherwise looks good.
> 
> Updated with all the remarks from various commentors fixed, thanks.

Current set of changes i have locally

comments welcome

diff --git a/application-2014.txt b/application-2014.txt
index e603f67..14d236f 100644
--- a/application-2014.txt
+++ b/application-2014.txt
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ leading audio/video codec library.

 FFmpeg is possibly the most ubiquitous multimedia framework in the
 world, is used as the multimedia engine by a significant part of FLOSS
-multimedia applications (for example: chromium), and provides the
-back-end of most transcoding services.
+multimedia applications, several major webbrowsers, and provides the
+back-end of most online transcoding services.

 FFmpeg strives at being the *universal* multimedia tool, implementing
 all possible multimedia formats (even the most obscure fringe formats),
@@ -18,10 +18,8 @@ sense.
   2. Why is your organization applying to participate in Google Summer
      of Code 2014? What do you hope to gain by participating?

-We hope to involve more contributors in the community, gain
-visibility, improve and extend our codebase, and have an opportunity to
-meet and discuss with other project developers thanks to the
-program-related events and channels.
+We hope to increase the number of long term contributors, add more features
+to FFmpeg, fix bugs and to have fun.

   3. Has your organization participated in past Google Summer of Codes?

@@ -48,7 +46,8 @@ N/A
   6. What Open Source Initiative approved license(s) does your project
      use?

-GNU LGPL v2
+GNU LGPL v2.1+
+GNU GPL v2+

   7. What is the URL for your Ideas list?

@@ -118,9 +117,9 @@ available.
   14. What steps will you take to encourage students to interact with
       your project's community before, during and after the program?

-We'll recommend students to idle on IRC and we'll request them to read
-and possibly participate in discussions on the main development
-mailing-list.
+We'll require students to either be online on IRC on a daily basis or
+be active on other communication channels like our developer mailing
+list. Students doing neither will not be accepted.

 We will also try to create a friendly environment where the students
 can freely participate and where they can find support from the

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