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Rockbox participates in Google's Summer of Code 2008

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Bagder:
It is now confirmed that we've been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google's Summer of Code 2008.

Let's make an effort to add more ideas to the gsoc page, talk to potential students and make more rockbox hackers volunteer as mentors.

The wiki page for gsoc 2008 ideas:

http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/SummerOfCode2008

soap:
Congrats on back-to-back acceptance!
Does this mean Rockbox is a lock for at least one project?

Bagder:

--- Quote ---Does this mean Rockbox is a lock for at least one project?
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I don't think that's guaranteed, since we first need to get mentors, then a bunch of student applications and then we get a number of slots assigned. I would think that projects that fail to gather enough mentors/students risk getting zero slots.

Not that I think it will happen to us. Just talking hypothetically.

grossaffe:

--- Quote from: Bagder on March 17, 2008, 05:33:45 PM ---Let's make an effort to add more ideas to the gsoc page, talk to potential students and make more rockbox hackers volunteer as mentors.

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why don't we add rockboy opimization and nes emulation as potential projects?  I wouldn't be surprised to see those projects building some interest.

Llorean:
Because, honestly, they're unlikely to get accepted. We're looking for things that move forward the purpose of the project, which means things targeting various key goals.

Rockbox optimization, on its own, is probably not a summer's work. And with the existing NES emulation patch, completing it may not be either.

Between those two points, they really aren't suitable as Soc projects.

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