Spring applied for participation in the Google summer of code 2009 as a mentoring organisation. We hope to get some projects for improving spring, and to attract new developers, because you can never have enought of them

If you know some C++ and want to see spring imrpoving, please participate. Also ask your friends, colleagues, siblings, grandparents ... if they want to do.

A list of some project examples can be found at http://spring.clan-sy.com/wiki/SpringEngineTODO. You can also make your own proprosal.

Huzzah!

Sadly, my coding skill is equivalent to that of a dying rabid dog, so I can't really contribute much

I hope that works out, would be good for us.

Posted

Hope this works :p

and i hope someone goes for new map format first

mesh deformation.
skeletal animation.
rope physics.

I wouldn't care about anything else if those were implemented

though SM3+1 would be nice too

all of this is in md5 AFAIK, which kloot has half-done, judging from the screenshots. bug him to release something ^^

I noticed we didn't get accepted. Did they give any reason for turning us down?

Reasons some google-guy gave us in IRC:

• there was some pessimistic comment in the gsoc-discussion forum thread, which was linked from our todo-page
• we did not have a dedicated GSoC-site in our wiki, we used our regular todo-site

And yes, we know this is weird.

I can't find pessimistic comments in the gsoc thread, but I do agree with the last. If you look at other projects, they are really prepared for GSOC, have mentors and projects ready also.

Anyway, hopefully more luck next year..

I think they mean this:
"i don't quite believe google would want a rather niche game... and we're not exactly an organization."

And yeah, I should have put a google banner to the todo list and renamed it to "gsoc idea list" or something like that.....

rather niche O_o

they accepted wesnoth last year. I think thats way more niche than a rts engine

we talked a bit about this in #sy, the conclusion was "move along, nothing to see here". next year we'll have to try harder, use a wiki, censor the soc forum threads, provide a mentor for each project proposal upfront, etc. as of this year, case closed.

Good Luck to you!!

Goodluck for next year.

they accept wesnoth but turn down spring?

GG

Ok. IMO, that's madness. But Spring just needs to get more organized, then they might accept us.

slowpoke.dds

Isn't wesnoth crap? Atleast compared to Spring.

We should demand justice, or at the very least extract revenge.

I can understand not liking the style of Wesnoth's gameplay, but calling it crap when it does several things better than Spring does currently stinks of bias.

* MacOS binaries + other more exotic OS binaries available
* Single-player campaigns
* Installer comes bundled with everything you need to play immediately because the content doesn't face the same legal ramifications of most Spring mods.