Hi, I'm Kamil and I'm new to the ffmpeg project. This year I want to participate for the first time in the Google's Summer of Code project. I have yet started coding one of your qualification tasks [the TIFF encoder] and I'm now improving it to implement as many features, you have suggested, as possible :-). Next week I have a lot of work, because of my studies, but before the deadline I will have some days, which I planned to finish the task. Now, I'm writing my application and I need to choose some of the projects. I've looked through some of the specifications and they don't seem to be difficult to implement for me. Just some of them need more time to spend, but the goals can be achieved. There are some of projects on the wiki, but, surely, some of them are more useful than others. So I would like to ask you, which projects are more important for you, and which are less. And, the second question, what can I do with the projects without mentors? Some of them are quite nice (for example the gsm, jpeg2000 or ape), but I don't know if it makes sense, sending an application for such a project. -- Best regards, Kamil Nowosad
Kamil Nowosad wrote:
Hi,
I'm Kamil and I'm new to the ffmpeg project. This year I want to participate for the first time in the Google's Summer of Code project. I have yet started coding one of your qualification tasks [the TIFF encoder] and I'm now improving it to implement as many features, you have suggested, as possible :-).
Can we possibly convince you to look into an alternate qualification task? 2 other people simultaneously submitted TIFF encoders as qual. tasks. While the primary purpose of the task is to qualify the student's ability, we would also like to get some new features into FFmpeg as well. :)
And, the second question, what can I do with the projects without mentors? Some of them are quite nice (for example the gsm, jpeg2000 or ape), but I don't know if it makes sense, sending an application for such a project.
You can submit multiple applications, one for each project you would like to do. You would only get 1 project if selected, of course. -- -Mike Melanson
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 05:33:53PM -0700, Mike Melanson wrote:
Can we possibly convince you to look into an alternate qualification task? 2 other people simultaneously submitted TIFF encoders as qual. tasks. While the primary purpose of the task is to qualify the student's ability, we would also like to get some new features into FFmpeg as well. :)
I've lately submitted my patch and received some suggestions from the group. I was working on that and today or tomorrow I'm going to submit it. But I can also implement something else :-). That shouldn't be a big problem. However, if my encoder looks better than Bartlomiej's, I'll work especially on it and try to make it perfect ;-) -- Pozdrawiam! Kamil Nowosad #gg: 1611683
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