[Openicc] 2008 Google SoC preparations

[Cyrille Berger]

On Sunday 02 March 2008, Kai-Uwe Behrmann wrote:
> > I also think we need to have a section to provide some guidance to
> > students concerning our expectations on the applications and the
> > application process. Perhaps we can reduce the number of copy and paste
> > type applications and get more applications that can be seriously
> > considered.   The same thing also applies to expectations for the period
> > between students being selected and the beginning of the actual project
> > work.
>
> Yes, I'd like to pick Boudewijns suggestion and communicate almost on a
> emaillist. Beside transparency, we can require a *nix environment as
> fallback. Eigther a student shows she/he can build open source libraries
> on Xcode/VC or we make a call to use Linux/BSD. The later are regulary
> to meet among all sort of developers.
I think *nix environment should be a requirement. Last year, my student and me 
lost a considerable amount of time on making run the various available 
tonemapping algorithms on Windows.

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Cyrille Berger