[oe] Google Summer of Code

[Erik Hovland]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 01:15:51PM -0600, Jacob Thebault-Spieker wrote:
> I'm a first year Computer Science major interested in participating in 
> Google Summer of Code. What's the process for doing this in OE? Is there a 
> process? Who should I talk to about mentoring? Are there any projects that 
> I could do? I'm relatively familiar with OE, specifically Angstrom, as I 
> have a two Zaurii, a C3200 and an SL-5500.
>
> I don't know of anything specific about OE that's not fully functional, 
> although, one project I was thinking about was a GUI video player, as a 
> frontend for mplayer. This would incorporate the accelerated video that 
> some of the Zaurii have, and would be full screen. Ideally, it'd be able to 
> recognize that the screen is flipped, and potentially still allow for 
> landscape mode(where the zaurus would be in vertical position, but the 
> video would play in landscape/widescreen mode).

You would have a better chance of submitting this idea to the Maemo
or Mplayer groups.

I am not likely to administer the hh.org SoC again this year. So I can't
say whether you should submit your idea there.

E

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