[misc] Spring applied for GSoC 2009

[Auswaschbar]

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.

[MidKnight]

Huzzah!

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

[adin_panther]

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

[Forboding Angel]

Posted

[Otherside]

Hope this works :p

and i hope someone goes for new map format first

[MidKnight]

mesh deformation.
skeletal animation.
rope physics.

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

though SM3+1 would be nice too

[imbaczek]

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

[el_matarife]

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

[Auswaschbar]

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.

[jcnossen]

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..

[Agon]

I can't find pessimistic comments in the gsoc threadr..

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.....

[Otherside]

rather niche O_o

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

[imbaczek]

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.

[[mft]Rrrr]

Good Luck to you!!

[clericvash]

Goodluck for next year.

[1v0ry_k1ng]

they accept wesnoth but turn down spring?

GG

[Blue_Falcon]

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

[MidKnight]

slowpoke.dds

[Soul]

they accept wesnoth but turn down spring?

GG

Isn't wesnoth crap? Atleast compared to Spring.

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

[Societal]

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.