[CREATE] Fw: Re: Getting GSoC students to LGM'14

[Hin-Tak Leung]

Just re-posting from my subscribed alias.

> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 19:08 GMT Jon Nordby wrote:
> 
> >On 8 November 2013 02:10, Mario Behling <mb at mariobehling.de>
> wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I would like to follow up on getting GSoC students
> to LGM. The idea
> >> is, that we ask Google to support travel to get
> students and mentors
> >> to the event.
> >
> >Hi Mario,
> >thanks for following up!
> >
> >> On Google Melange I identified the following
> graphics projects, that
> >> participated in GSoC this year. Did I miss any?
> Please let me know.
> >
> >I forwarded your email to gimp-developer now, hopefully
> that brings
> >them on board.
> >
> >I also had a look through the list at Melange, and found
> these
> >projects possibly interesting:
> >* OpenCV http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/opencv
> >* Processing http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/processing
> >* R project http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/rproject
> >* Crystal Space
> >http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/crystalspace
> >* Inclusive Design Institute
> >http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/idi_idrc
> >and maybe
> >* BRL-CAD http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/brlcad
> >* Open Graph Drawing Fw.
> >http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/ogdf
> >* LibreOffice http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/libreoffice
> >* WikiMedia http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/wikimedia
> 
> Good luck to that.
> 
> I can't say about the others, but the R project people
> aren't all that interested in
> graphics. R relies on cairo to do GUI display and
> jpeg/pdf/etc file generation, yes,
> but from personal experience, asking them to use up-to-date
> cairo/freetype for their
> statically-linked official windows and Mac OS X binaries had
> been a long and tiring failure.
> The last time I checked, they were still using a cairo 2-3
> years old for the
> official window and Mac OS X binaries and happy with it. (I
> encountered
> a specific bug, with R code to demonstrate, worked with
> freetype
> to get a fix, and told them the minimum versions to use).
> 
> Their extent of and scope of interests in quality graphics
> is probably similar
> to GNU Octave's, if you are more familiar with Octave (or
> Mathematica/Maple)
> and for similar enough reasons.
> 
> Some of the projects may have only some graphing/plotting
> functionalities but
> probably may not care as much about rendering precision or
> color correctness as some
> more design/graphical-design oriented projects do...
> 
> Hin-Tak
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