BRL-CAD Joins Google Summer of Code
 ABERDEEN
PROVING GROUND, MD,
Mar 24, 2008 – BRL-CAD has been accepted as a mentoring organization in the
2008 Google Summer of Code. The Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a summer
program for students hosted by Google every year that pays students a
stipend of $4500 over the course of summer to work on open source projects.
BRL-CAD has been accepted to participate and will be accepting and reviewing
student applications between March 24th through March 31st. Any students
interested in participating should visit the
BRL-CAD GSoC wiki
pages for more information about the submission process and details on some
of the available project ideas.
Students interested in working on BRL-CAD should consult with the
developers via the #brlcad IRC channel
on Freenode or through the brlcad-devel mailing list regardless of the
proposal to help develop a more detailed and desirable proposal submission.
Students are strongly encouraged to get involved early-on in the submission
process, to discuss proposals in depth, and to help mentors become better
acquainted with the students.
Now in its fourth year running, the Google Summer of Code has already
brought together over 1500 students and 2000 mentors from 90 countries
worldwide to open source software development, all for the love of code. One
of the primary goals of the program is to introduce students to free open
source software development with the specific intent of attracting those
students as new long-term developers for that project. For BRL-CAD, this is
very much the primary reason for participating. With increased awareness,
new developers, and increased developer activity, the BRL-CAD developers
hope to accelerate open source CAD development to benefit the entire CAD
user community.
About BRL-CAD
BRL-CAD is a powerful cross-platform open source solid modeling system
that includes interactive geometry editing, high-performance ray-tracing for
rendering and geometric analysis, image and signal- processing tools, a
system performance analysis benchmark suite, libraries for robust geometric
representation, with more than 20 years of active development.
For more information, visit at
http://brlcad.org.
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