[PD] Call for GSoC mentors! March 9th deadline!

[marius schebella]

Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
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> On Mar 7, 2009, at 11:30 AM, marius schebella wrote:
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>> chris clepper wrote:
>>> My own suggestion for a GEM project would be to create a tutorial and
>>> accompanying manual that covers the basic operation.
>>
>> I was planning to do this for years now, adding to dereks FLOSS
>> Documentation or just as a separate project. there are a lot of unsorted
>> patches on my drive, but as someone mentioned in a response to this
>> email, documentation is not part of GSoC...
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> I think that we could also have books on specific topics.  For example, 
> it would be very nice to have a GLSL+Gem manual.

oh, that reminds me that the gl_MultiTexCoord1-8 stuff is still broken. 
fixing that bug would be worth a GSoC project.
marius.



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>>
>>  The other idea
>>> involves making the more advanced features like GLSL and framebuffer
>>> rendering easier to use.
>>
>> I started to port vade's old v001 last year, including abstractions to
>> easily chain several shaders together. not finished yet because with
>> relation to GLSL stuff, I think I am just too stupid to get it...
>>
>> marius.
>>
>>  These are mainly documentation projects, but
>>> also have some Pd, and possible C++ coding as well.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Derek Holzer <derek at umatic.nl
>>> <mailto:derek at umatic.nl>> wrote:
>>>
>>>    That's great, let's see what happens ;-)
>>>
>>>    d.
>>>
>>>    chris clepper wrote:
>>>
>>>        I added my name to the VeeJay project to advise on how the low
>>>        level stuff affects performance and stability.  I don't know if
>>>        a project can have more than one mentor though.
>>>
>>>        On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 6:31 AM, Derek Holzer <derek at umatic.nl
>>>        <mailto:derek at umatic.nl> <mailto:derek at umatic.nl
>>>        <mailto:derek at umatic.nl>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>           Since I'm completely uninterested in touching anything C,
>>>        C++, TclTk or
>>>           otherwise related, I submitted two Pd patching projects which
>>>        should be
>>>           general enough to attract students, yet quite intensive to
>>>        work on.
>>>           Feedback welcome.
>>>
>>>           http://puredata.info/dev/summer-of-code/Undead
>>>           http://puredata.info/dev/summer-of-code/GEMVeeJay
>>>
>>>           Anyone want to take up 2007's PluggoPd idea?
>>>
>>>           best,
>>>           D.
>>>
>>>           --
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