Re: Google Summer of Code

Posted by dscho on Mar 29, 2009; 1:20am
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Google-Summer-of-Code-tp3693141p3693145.html

Hi,

On Sat, 28 Mar 2009, Bill Mohler wrote:

> How would FIJI-specific projects differ from general plugin development
> for IJ?

I would not lightly accept a project that runs without Fiji at all.  After
all, we put in a lot of effort into the Summer of Code (some of the
organizations that were accepted in previous years have not succeeded in
securing a place in the summer of code, but we were, in spite of being
newcomers).

We will have to put in even more effort, as mentoring is almost a
full-time job during the first weeks.

So of course, we want to have something in return: preferably long-term
contributors that add value to the parts of Fiji that do not easily run
outside of Fiji (think "plugin manager", or "scripting editor").

It is a simple matter of quid pro quo: Google provides money, we provide
extensive knowledge, experience and assistance in programming and image
processing, and the students should provide us with a project that
improves Fiji.

> What are the limits for the GSoC project monitored by FIJI.

There are no limits ;-)

Except, of course, that it must be a project that benefits Fiji in an
obvious way.

BTW if it was not clear: Google is extremely generous, paying students for
us.  And we have an obligation of spending that money wisely, fulfilling
our side of the contract: to attract more students to Open Source.

Oh, and if you have an idea for a project that is so obviously Fiji that
we cannot possibly reject it, but which is not listed on the Fiji Wiki:
the ideas we listed are only suggestions, food for thought.  Go wild.

Ciao,
Dscho