[FFmpeg-devel] Outreachy 2016 december

[Paul B Mahol]

On 8/18/16, Michael Niedermayer <michael at niedermayer.cc> wrote:
> 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
>

I added relatively simple task to the page I will mentor, If nobody
wants to be an admin,
I can, but I need to know what boring paperwork I need to do _before_
I apply for the admin.