[Openicc] 2008 Google SoC preparations

[Kai-Uwe Behrmann]

The 2008 site is roughly started. I pasted in some ideas and started with 
the hints and requirements on the bottom.

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/OpenIccForGoogleSoC2008


kind regards
Kai-Uwe Behrmann
-- 
developing for colour management 
www.behrmann.name + www.oyranos.org


Am 03.03.08, 08:46 -0800 schrieb Hal V. Engel:
> On Monday 03 March 2008 00:34:25 Cyrille Berger wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> This was also an issue for my project and from reading the various GSoC forums 
> is apparently a fairly common issue.  We lost perhaps 2 full weeks getting 
> things working on Windows and this definitely placed the project in a bad 
> position.   I think that part of this is that setting up a build environment 
> on a Windows system is significantly more difficult than on a *nix system and 
> students think they have a handle on it because they have things working for 
> their relatively simple school projects.  They don't realize how much work 
> they will need to do to get this working for the much more complex GSoC 
> projects.  
> 
> Fortunately I was able to work with the student to make up most of the lost 
> ground but I would have preferred to not have had to deal with the issue.   
> On the flip side there were also some benefits to the student working on 
> Windows.  For example, he did fix a number of preexisting Windows specific 
> bugs.
> 
> I am inclined to be a little flexible since I don't have an issue with the 
> student working on Windows as long as the project is intended to be cross 
> platform AND the student has everything working on Windows well before the 
> beginning of actual project work.  The rub with the last one is how do you 
> ensure that the student has in fact gotten things working on Windows before 
> project start up?  
> 
> This is a heads up to potential mentors.  If your student wants to work on 
> Windows then you must insist that the student has a fully functional build 
> environment well before the start of the GSoC project work.  Next time around 
> I will insist that the student sends me a working Windows binary of current 
> CVS at least a month before project start up.
> 
> Hal