[PD] Google SoC: call for mentors and project ideas

[Chris McCormick]

> On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:30:20 +0100
> Georg Holzmann <grh at mur.at> wrote:
> > We discussed at the LAC that we would like to apply again this year for 
> > google's summer of code project, which is about to start today 
> > (http://code.google.com/soc/2008/).

On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 01:41:00PM +0000, Andy Farnell wrote:
> I'd be happy to join any team that has a games+audio+Pd proposal
> as a mentor.

I have added this:
<http://puredata.info/dev/summer-of-code/LibPd>

Which is my proposal to make it easier to compile the audio-engine part
of Pd as a library and link it into your own projects. This has been
asked about numerous times on the list, almost always to do with games
related projects, and we all know that it's happening already in Spore.

Also, this could really help with some of the other SOC projects like
PluggoPd, PdVST, etc. so it's highly re-useable.

The only problem here is the confusing name; there is already a PdLib
project, which in my opinion should be called 'PdExternals' or something,
but LibPd seems a very appropriate name for a project for using Pd as
a library.

I guess I'm happy to mentor this but Andy is probably a better candidate
than me if he's interested! Or we could co-mentor - whatevs.

Best,

Chris.

-------------------
http://mccormick.cx