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| 15:01.03 | *** topic/#brlcad is BRL-CAD Open Source Solid Modeling || http://brlcad.org || logs: http://ibot.rikers.org/%23brlcad/ || BRL-CAD release 7.22.0 is forthcoming (eta: end of March) || BRL-CAD has applied to participate in GSoC 2012! |
| 16:06.40 | brlcad | yeah, but other stuff too .. gsoc ones are mostly quick |
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| 18:03.24 | brlcad | bhinesley: what's up with Once again participating in the Google Summer of Code [1], students interested in working on BRL-CAD this summer have been diligently preparing and posting proposals over the past couple weeks. In all, we ended up with about 50 submissions by the deadline with about three dozen or so being considered valid proposals that will go through our review process. Here's a nifty graph showing the rush up to the deadline: |
| 18:03.31 | brlcad | This year, code cleanup seems to be the most popular theme along with a wide range of interest in NURBS, object mathematics, website services, and more. The overall quality seems to be fantastic this year with many students electing to showcase their proposal on the BRL-CAD Wiki with diagrams, prototypes, and patches demonstrating concepts and abilities. Awesome. |
| 18:03.36 | brlcad | On another positive note, students have at LEAST a 5% chance of being accepted simply by applying to BRL-CAD, which is far greater than one has applying to some other open source organizations. Depending on how our proposal reviews and slot allocations proceed, we hope to increase those odds easily into the 15-30% range or better. |
| 18:03.41 | brlcad | Until selections are finalized, our mentors will continue to work with students on their patches [2] and will be posing comments, questions, and holding interviews over the next two weeks. A big thanks goes out to all of our student applicants! It'll be very hard to narrow down on just a few students to work with this summer but we hope all are inspired to contribute to open source source software and thank everyone for their interest in BRL-CAD! |
| 18:03.47 | brlcad | Cheers! |
| 18:03.49 | brlcad | Sean |
| 18:03.52 | brlcad | [1] http://brlcad.org/d/node/97 |
| 18:03.55 | brlcad | [2] https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=105292&atid=640804 |
| 18:03.57 | brlcad | ooops |
| 18:04.00 | brlcad | sorry all, bad paste |
| 18:04.02 | brlcad | bhinesley: http://pastebin.com/HynejqH0 :) |
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| 19:25.43 | andrei | hello :) |
| 19:32.37 | brlcad | howdy :) |
| 19:34.53 | andrei | Sorry for the lack of activity these days, I m kept busy by homeworks and deadlines from university |
| 19:35.19 | andrei | I have been working 3 days continuosly on a homework before I was noticed by my teacher that the checker is broken... |
| 19:36.17 | andrei | but we have Easter holiday starting in two days and I ll use that to catch up :) |
| 19:36.34 | brlcad | no worries |
| 19:39.56 | andrei | I have a curiosity about open source and brl-cad |
| 19:40.25 | andrei | why did the brl-cad organization become open source, I m not entirely sure how this benefits an organization |
| 19:46.18 | andrei | I mean, for example a core brl-cad developer works only on brl-cad? |
| 19:51.59 | andrei | I hope this question doesn't seem stupid or rude, just read a bit on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRL-CAD and it made me curious |
| 20:19.40 | CIA-128 | BRL-CAD: 03starseeker * r49955 10/brlcad/trunk/ (5 files in 5 dirs): Correct old type in FindTCL.cmake, update other copies in src/other |
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| 20:42.20 | brlcad | andrei: there are lots of benefits to becoming an open source project, particularly for governments where traditional notions of commercial development are not relevant |
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| 20:51.50 | brlcad | for brl-cad in particular, going open source was a great way to actually substantially reduce overhead costs, improve collaborative potential, and reduce deployment costs |
| 23:25.39 | CIA-128 | BRL-CAD: 03starseeker * r49956 10/brlcad/trunk/regress/CMakeLists.txt: fix distcheck |