Google Summer of Code as a student

[Matt Turner]

Too late? Applications aren't even being accepted yet. (And they are
accepted for ~2 weeks.)

For ideas, see http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/SummerOfCodeIdeas

Matt

On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 2:42 AM, Matthew Tippett <tippettm at gmail.com> wrote:
> Michael,
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> Though probably too late for this cycle it would be great to get
> Phoronix to gather ideas foe google summer  of Code  ideas.
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> On 20-Mar-09, at 11:54 PM, Joseph Adams <joeyadams3.14159 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> Hello, I'm Joey Adams, and I'm interested in participating as a
>> student in Google Summer of Code with X.Org.  I hope to learn how to
>> develop for and contribute to Xorg, and GSoC is just the thing to get
>> me started.
>>
>> I'm particularly interested in working in the area of drivers, though
>> working anywhere on Xorg will be just as rad.  I envision buying a new
>> computer with a video card that needs attention, then spending my
>> summer unlocking its (and my) potential.
>>
>> I'd like to discuss what would be a good project.  I'm leaning toward
>> picking up a recent nvidia card and doing one of the items mentioned
>> at http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/ToDo .
>>
>>
>> Primary reasons I'm interested in Google Summer of Code with X.Org
>> (not necessarily in order):
>>
>> Power
>> Money
>> C
>> Community
>>
>> Power- Coming through Google Summer of Code successfully should give
>> me a much more intimate understanding of the X.Org internals.  Having
>> this will enable me to improve the drivers I want to use, which will
>> help out others as well.
>>
>> Money- Who doesn't want $4,500? :)  Money will be a major motivation
>> for me, as it will help me get a car and a faster computer, both of
>> which I sorely need :)
>>
>> C- Ever since I learned C, I have not been very inclined to learn
>> scripting languages like Python, Perl, PHP, etc.  They're not fast.  C
>> is fast :)  Unfortunately for me, a lot of major upstream projects are
>> using the three Ps.  I should probably learn them, but I suppose the
>> C-less years of my youth (Hypertalk, Visual Basic 5, TI-BASIC) were
>> too much for me :)  The fact that Xorg is in C increments my desire to
>> work with it.
>>
>> Community- I'm not very active as a contributor in any specific
>> programming community.  Learning X and becoming a regular contributor
>> would be really neat.
>>
>>
>> My X background:
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>> No real programming successes, yet.  I have had multiple forays into
>> the code, but nothing major has come of it.  I tried to get the Cirrus
>> 7543 chipset on my really old Pentium 1 laptop to work on a recent
>> Xorg (support for it was dropped in XFree86 4 after stuff got
>> reorganized) by looking at the XFree86 3 driver and shotgun-changing a
>> more current version.  I succeeded in getting the gray background and
>> cursor, but it freezes after that.  I really didn't know what I was
>> doing.  I also looked into speeding up a Radeon 9250 card on my PC,
>> but I was clueless.
>>
>> I bought an eMac G4 late last year to test PowerPC stuff, and X didn't
>> work.  I shot an e-mail to this list, and Alex Deucher came to the
>> rescue (see http://www.mail-archive.com/xorg@lists.freedesktop.org/msg02854.html
>> to read the unabridged epic).  He asked me to do tests with the
>> connector table.  In the end, it worked fantastically.  Plus, I
>> learned I could set my eMac's monitor to arbitrary resolutions (e.g.
>> 1920x1200, well beyond the advertised 1280x960) using custom modelines
>> generated with gtf.
>>
>>
>> Thanks for reading my rambling :)  Hopefully it gives any potential
>> mentors a better idea of what I know.
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