[FFmpeg-devel] Outreachy 2016 december

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 11:27:49PM +0530, Umair Khan wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 9:54 PM, Michael Niedermayer
> <michael at niedermayer.cc> wrote:
> > 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 ?
> 
> I currently have no ideas in mind.
> I myself have a lot of experience with AOSP (Android Open Source), may
> be something related to that?

android or AOSP related projects surely would be interresting


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