[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Google Summer of Code 2014 application

[Stefano Sabatini]

On date Sunday 2014-02-09 05:05:17 +0100, Michael Niedermayer encoded:
> On Sat, Feb 08, 2014 at 09:30:19PM +0100, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> > On date Saturday 2014-02-08 13:55:27 +1100, Peter Ross encoded:
> > > On Sat, Feb 08, 2014 at 12:59:21AM +0100, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> > [...]
> > > Otherwise looks good.
> > 
> > Updated with all the remarks from various commentors fixed, thanks.
> 
> Current set of changes i have locally
> 
> comments welcome
> 
> diff --git a/application-2014.txt b/application-2014.txt
> index e603f67..14d236f 100644
> --- a/application-2014.txt
> +++ b/application-2014.txt
> @@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ leading audio/video codec library.
> 
>  FFmpeg is possibly the most ubiquitous multimedia framework in the
>  world, is used as the multimedia engine by a significant part of FLOSS
> -multimedia applications (for example: chromium), and provides the
> -back-end of most transcoding services.
> +multimedia applications, several major webbrowsers, and provides the
> +back-end of most online transcoding services.
> 
>  FFmpeg strives at being the *universal* multimedia tool, implementing
>  all possible multimedia formats (even the most obscure fringe formats),
> @@ -18,10 +18,8 @@ sense.
>    2. Why is your organization applying to participate in Google Summer
>       of Code 2014? What do you hope to gain by participating?
> 
> -We hope to involve more contributors in the community, gain
> -visibility, improve and extend our codebase, and have an opportunity to
> -meet and discuss with other project developers thanks to the
> -program-related events and channels.

> +We hope to increase the number of long term contributors, add more features
> +to FFmpeg, fix bugs and to have fun.

OK but please keep the line about interprojects communication, which I
believe it is IMHO an important part of the program.

LGTM otherwise.
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