[FFmpeg-devel] Outreachy 2016 december

[Umair Khan]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 9:54 PM, Michael Niedermayer
<michael at niedermayer.cc> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 09:16:16PM +0530, Umair Khan wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 5:33 PM, Michael Niedermayer
>> <michael at niedermayer.cc> wrote:
>> > On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 07:18:13PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>> >> On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 11:25:21PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>> >> > Hi all
>> >> >
>> >> > The next Outreachy round starts soon
>> >> > FFmpeg has till august 22 IIUC (https://www.gnome.org/outreachy/)
>> >> > to express interrest to participate.
>> >> >
>> >> > We need an admin and backup admins.
>> >>
>> >> ping!
>> >
>> > ping2
>> >
>> > so far the only person doing anything was compn
>> > https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/SponsoringPrograms/Outreachy/2016-12?action=history
>> >
>> > I think there are 2 questions that the community needs to awnser
>> >
>> > first, should FFmpeg be participating in the december 2016 round
>> > of Outreachy ?
>> >
>> > If so, some people need to come forth with projects to mentor.
>> > Ive previously asked people privatly one by one i wont do that this
>> > time its a surprissingly large amount of work and anyone else, even
>> > a non programer could ask / organize this and probably better than i
>> > can, asking people is not by strong side ...
>> > And someone needs to come forth as "Admin"
>> >
>> > Second is the question, which project ideas the community wants and
>> > which we do not want.
>> > To me it appeard that there was a disparity between objections to
>> > proojects and suggestions for projects. I think we need more people
>> > suggesting projects and volunteering to mentor than objections against
>> > project ideas
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> >
>> > PS: keep in mind august 22 is the official deadline for FFmpeg to
>> > join IIUC. We need some project idea with a mentor first before any
>> > potential admin would contact the Outreachy admins for joining i
>> > suspect ...
>>
>> I'd love to mentor some *easy* project in the Outreachy program
>> definitely. May be I can even get some students to apply to the
>> program.
>
> that would be great, do you have any specific ideas for a easy
> project ?

I currently have no ideas in mind.
I myself have a lot of experience with AOSP (Android Open Source), may
be something related to that?
I saw some patches related to MediaCodec API some days back.

- Umair