[Ffmpeg-devel] GSoC'07 Call For Mentors

[Aurelien Jacobs]

On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 21:02:01 +0100
Steve Lhomme <slhomme at corecodec.com> wrote:

> Mike Melanson wrote:
> > Steve Lhomme wrote:
> >> Mike Melanson wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> Another thing about the Google Summer of Code: Email me if you are 
> >>> interested in taking on the responsibility of mentoring a student 
> >>> project. Not a small task; we want to have a rigorous series of 
> >>> checkpoints for each project and consistent contact with each student 
> >>> to mitigate certain problems we had last year.
> >>
> >> There are already 3 persons available for the matroska muxer:
> >> - Aurelien Jacobs
> >> - Ronald Bultje
> >> - myself
> >>
> >> I suppose the official mentor but be someone with strong FFMPEG ties ? 
> >> That would mean Aurelien.

I agree, and I'm ready for the task.
So it seems I will be the official mentor.

> >> Otherwise I can be the mentor, given I know 
> >> matroska best and I know how libavformat works.

I also have a good knowledge of matroska, being the author of current
MPlayer's Matroska demuxer.
But some help with mentoring this project is very welcomed.

> > If anyone has a financial motivation, a mentoring spot is worth $500, 
> > paid by Google (less taxes, unless we can figure out some non-profit 
> > scam this year).
> 
> As I already have a paying job, I'll leave that to Aurelien or Ronald if 
> they don't.

Same here.
We could probably agree on spliting it, or giving it to the ffmpeg project
if it can do any good. Anyway, that shouldn't cause any trouble.

Aurel