Google Summer Of Code 2016

[bejant]

WE ARE IN!!

Awesome - and it sure will be interesting to see what develops from this!

[bernd]

WE ARE IN!!

congratulations

If I would find a student, would it still be possible to add a new project from our side? An idea would be add z88 as a second solver to FEM. This is on my LongTerm ToDo and I have some code already. The appropriate developments to add even more solvers should be included. There has been a lot requests in the regard of OpenFoam already.

bernd

[ickby]

If I would find a student, would it still be possible to add a new project from our side?

Yes of course. The studends are free to propose whatever they want, the project ideas we have come up with are only a hint on what we could imagine and what would be mentored for sure. So if you have someone capable and are willing to do the heavy part of the mentoring (of course we all will help the student too) than your idea is very welcome! Make sure you read the GSoC guide about mentoring before commiting: http://en.flossmanuals.net/GSoCMentoring/mind-the-gap/ (the whole chapter about mentoring is interesting)

We will have maximal two students, but if we have any depends on what kind of proposals we receive, if they are high quality or not. So it may happen that we need to decide between multiple good ones and it may also happen that we will have no or only one good proposal so that we can share all our mentoring power, we will see

[bernd]

Stefan, thanks for your informations.

[cox]

WE ARE IN!!

have any chance of making some marketing fuzz help us to spread the word!

The 0.16 release could seam like a nice opportunity to get publicity on many of the open source news sites around.

To maximise the impact and control the message of such an opportunity, it could be beneficial to assemble a media package.

Possible contents of such package, in random order:
Demo video of features.
Some nice screenshots.
List of strenght/weekneses
List of what is needed.
How students can help in Google Summer of code 2016
Why students should choose FreeCAD
Release notes

Libre Graphics World featured the 0.15 release.

To maximise the effect of such campaign, identifying all possible outlets for this package.

[yorik]

In any case it could be interesting to add a note abut this on the 0.16 release notes page. Curious to see what will happen!

[PrzemoF]

WE ARE IN!!

I'm glad to announce that BRL-CAD as umbrella organization and with them FreeCAD has been selected for this years GSoC program!

https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/org ... 174596096/

This is very exciting. Now it is our task to raise interest in our projects and find capable students writing high quality project proposals. So if you know anyone that could be interested or have any chance of making some marketing fuzz help us to spread the word!

That's great!!!!! Well done all involved!!

[peterl94]

I keep tabs on Blender development and I saw this email from Ton today:

I also want to point students here at FreeCAD and other open source CAD projects.

BRL-CAD is an umbrella vor 6 CAD projects even:
http://brlcad.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of ... ject_Ideas

Please support them! We really need good open source specialized CAD programs!

[yorik]

Amazing! I hope Ton Roosendaal will be at LGM, he is definitely following what we do in FreeCAD. Would be highly interesting to have a little chat

[NormandC]

Hey guys,

A candidate volunteered on #freecad.

2016-03-11 07:20:10
YogeshKulkarni
Hi there!!
2016-03-11 07:21:04
YogeshKulkarni
I am a PhD student of CAD, planning to participate in GSoC 2016
2016-03-11 07:21:36
YogeshKulkarni
My LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yogeshkulkarni
2016-03-11 07:23:05
YogeshKulkarni
Wish to get started with FreeCAD Dev soon and put up a proposal for 'Extend Part Workbench Python API'

I wonder if it's OK posting his LinkedIn profile here...