Participating in Google Summer of Code 2012

[David Herrmann]

Hi Tiago

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Tiago Vignatti
<tiago.vignatti at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> On 03/16/2012 12:42 PM, Николай Антонов wrote:
>>
>>
>> It's high time to begin discussing application ideas with mentoring
>> organizations.
>
>
> seems Google cut by half the number of accepted organizations this year:
>
>    http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/accepted_orgs/google/gsoc2012
>
> and X.Org didn't get in - I didn't hear if the Foundation applied as
> mentoring organization actually. So one interested on Wayland development
> should try to send the proposals to the siblings communities like GNOME,
> KDE, libva, kernel, among others.

No. 180 orgs got accepted, see the gsoc mailing-list. The orgs need to fill
out their profile first before they are displayed. The changes are very good
that X.org was accepted ;)

>
>> I have several ideas that can improve wayland:
>>
>> - multi-gpu support: I think to do gpu hot-switch will be very
>> difficult, but it's possible to implement running applications on
>> another gpu (I hope).
>>
>> - remote wayland - absence of such feature is one of the most
>> criticised/controversial disadvantage of wayland
>>
>> - and may be backlight control =)
>
>
> we just landed on Weston some basic backlight control a couple of days ago.
>
>
>    Tiago
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