[FFmpeg-devel] GSoC 2017

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi all

GSoC 2017 mentor org registration has opened a few days ago

Our current ideas page lists just a single mentor and single sugestion
http://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/SponsoringPrograms/GSoC/2017

About the Suggested project
It is a hard design task which few students would be
capable to do. I dont know if someone already knows a student who is
qualified for this and who would be available in FFmpeg GSoC but if not
I think finding a qualified student will be hard or require some luck
and success with a less than qualified student unlikely.
At least thats what my gut feeling says based on past years

About the number of ideas
one is not enough, and i think its a waste of time if we apply with
such short list, i doubt we would be accepted with one idea and one
mentor

About the number of mentors
one is not enough

we should have at least twice as many voluneer mentors as we want to
have accepted projects as each project needs mentor and backup
mentor.
In some of the past years I asked people one by one to find
volunteers, thats surprissingly alot of work so we need a more efficient
way.

Can we make a list of potential Mentors on the wiki ?
We will likely need to specify the number of potential mentors when
registering FFmpeg to GSoC 2017, we did had to in previous years.
I also suspect the number of slots we get is bound to a fraction of
this number so it is important that this number is correct and not
smaller from people being lazy and waiting till we know what students
and actual project proposals are available to us

IIRC google suggests that ideas pages are writen and maintained
year round. Now we have a list but some develoeprs seem to oppose some
of these old ideas, I would expect that for each objection against an
old idea a new has to be provided and the one objecting should
volunteer as mentor for it. Otherwise we might be short on ideas and
mentors

-- 
Michael     GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB

In fact, the RIAA has been known to suggest that students drop out
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