[FFmpeg-devel] Outreachy 2016 december

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 09:16:16PM +0530, Umair Khan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 5:33 PM, Michael Niedermayer
> <michael at niedermayer.cc> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 07:18:13PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> >> On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 11:25:21PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> >> > Hi all
> >> >
> >> > The next Outreachy round starts soon
> >> > FFmpeg has till august 22 IIUC (https://www.gnome.org/outreachy/)
> >> > to express interrest to participate.
> >> >
> >> > We need an admin and backup admins.
> >>
> >> ping!
> >
> > ping2
> >
> > so far the only person doing anything was compn
> > https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/SponsoringPrograms/Outreachy/2016-12?action=history
> >
> > I think there are 2 questions that the community needs to awnser
> >
> > first, should FFmpeg be participating in the december 2016 round
> > of Outreachy ?
> >
> > If so, some people need to come forth with projects to mentor.
> > Ive previously asked people privatly one by one i wont do that this
> > time its a surprissingly large amount of work and anyone else, even
> > a non programer could ask / organize this and probably better than i
> > can, asking people is not by strong side ...
> > And someone needs to come forth as "Admin"
> >
> > Second is the question, which project ideas the community wants and
> > which we do not want.
> > To me it appeard that there was a disparity between objections to
> > proojects and suggestions for projects. I think we need more people
> > suggesting projects and volunteering to mentor than objections against
> > project ideas
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > PS: keep in mind august 22 is the official deadline for FFmpeg to
> > join IIUC. We need some project idea with a mentor first before any
> > potential admin would contact the Outreachy admins for joining i
> > suspect ...
> 
> I'd love to mentor some *easy* project in the Outreachy program
> definitely. May be I can even get some students to apply to the
> program.

that would be great, do you have any specific ideas for a easy
project ?

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