[natethomas]

I was browsing the ffmpeg website when I noticed they mentioned being accepted into the summer of code deal. It occurred to me that I haven't heard anything about that event over here.

I was just curious why that was. It's pretty evident that we seem to already have quite a few coders and a relatively large talent pool of willing individuals, so it would make sense not to really need the Summer of Code work.

Any amazing insight on this topic?

[jmarshall]

Real simple - the majority of experienced developers didn't have enough time to commit to mentoring a student this time around.

I'd love to do it again - it was a good experience for both me and the student (alcoheca in my case) and the XBMC project has benefitted from it immensely.

Hopefully next year we'll be able to take part again.

Cheers,
Jonathan

[natethomas]

Alcoheca was originally a summer of code student? That's cool. I didn't know that.

[Gamester17]

Yeah we missed applying this year, we really should all do our best to apply to GSoC next

Checkout the wiki page => http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Google_Summer_of_Code_2010
and these:
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=GSoC_Proposa..._Team-XBMC
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Goo...s_for_XBMC

Please feel free to post suggestions and discuss on how we can approve these til next year.

Register an account on the wiki and request ninja status and post under discussion (Talk) tab:
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Talk:Google_..._Code_2010
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Talk:GSoC_Pr..._Team-XBMC
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Talk:Smaller...ment_Tasks