[Mesa-dev] Summer of Code ideas (maybe just an idea wishlist?)

[Martin Peres]

On 17/03/15 22:50, Bruno Jimenez wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Last year, I participated in GSoC, (yeah, I still read the mailing list
> every day :) ) so I will give my 2 cents to the topic.
>
> My background isn't at all related to graphics or computer science, I am
> a physicist, although my main interest is in simulation. So that took me
> to OpenCL, which in turn took me to clover and finally landed in Mesa. I
> started looking at the code to see how things worked in the backstage
> (you know, we physicists usually like to know how things work :) ), and
> I spotted a couple of things that I thought could be done better. At
> first, I was mostly afraid of doing anything, mostly because I am not a
> programmer (I still don't think of myself as one) and I didn't know if
> what I was doing and how I was doing it was ok. But I ended sending some
> patches to the mailing list, and one thing followed another and I ended
> doing a GSoC.
>
> And here I am still, mostly without free time to try to continue where I
> left everything, but mostly willing to help again with whatever I can.
>
> My points would be more or less two: First, not to just think about
> graphics and cs people as possible help, it is true that they may be the
> best for the job, but other backgrounds may also help. And second, be
> welcoming to new people, for some of us, the step of sending something
> to the list, specially the first time, may be very stressfull, and
> receiving an answer with a plain 'do this' may be a bit discouraging.
>
> As said, just my 2 cents.
> Bruno

Thanks, your feedback is really appreciated! Good luck trying to find
some time to keep on doing what you like :)