[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Google Summer of Code 2013

[Roger Pack]

On 4/23/13, Thilo Borgmann <thilo.borgmann at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Am 22.04.13 22:21, schrieb Roger Pack:
>> On 4/20/13, Stefano Sabatini <stefasab at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On date Monday 2013-04-08 11:55:16 -0800, Lou Logan encoded:
>>>> On Tue, 2 Apr 2013 20:27:41 +0200, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Accepted organizations announcement is due in date April 08 at 19:00
>>>>> UTC, I'll post a follow-up to this thread as we know the result of the
>>>>> evaluation.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks all for participating!
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> FFmpeg was not accepted this year for GSoC. We can get feedback as to
>>>> why we were not accepted in #gsoc (Freenode) on Friday, April 19, 2013
>>>> at 16:00 UTC.
>>
>> Maybe somebody could do a kickstarter campaign for FFmpeg's "own"
>> summer of code...I would donate $50 toward it at least :)
>
> I've seen the Code Sprint ideas of the Point Cloud Library project lately,
> see
> http://www.pointclouds.org
>
> Maybe we can also consider this procedure to get some projects funded and
> realized with a more direct connection to companies interested in the
> development of FFmpeg. We should really get rid of the dependency on GSoC
> only
> for that purpose since these vague reasonings from Google won't vanish, I
> think.

Certainly you have more control when you run "your own" I suppose...