[beagleboard-gsoc] Six BeagleBoard.org GSoC projects launching

This mailing list has been too quiet for this to be the bonding
period!! It is time to get things going!

See BeagleBoard: Six BeagleBoard.org GSoC projects launching

BeagleBoard.org was approved to mentor six (6) students during this
year's Google as they execute their projects. The students, projects,
and mentors are:
* Christopher Friedt's project is NEON Support for FFTW. He is being
mentored by Mans Rullgard. I'm proposing Philip Balister as a co-
mentor. Christopher attends C.A.U. Kiel, Germany. You can follow his
work at http://perpetual-notion.blogspot.com/.
* Tobias Arrskog's project is Optimizing rendering of XBMC and aiding
the port to ARM. He is being mentored by Mike Zucchi. I'm proposing
Mans Rullgard and Søren Steen Christensen to assist as co-mentors.
Tobias attends Lunds University, LTH. Sweden.
* Yaman Umuroglu's project is RPC-like POSIX wrappers for DSPEasy.
Yaman is mentored by Katie Roberts-Hoffman. I'm proposing Laine
Walker-Avina and Frank Walzer to assist as co-mentors. Yaman attends
Middle East Technical University in Turkey.
* Varun Jewalikar's project is a High level interface to exploit the
Pulse Width Modulation abilities of the BeagleBoard. Varun is being
mentored by Søren Steen Christensen. I'm proposing Cristina Murillo
to assist as a co-mentor, but I'll be looking to see if we can add a
co-mentor in India. Varun attends Delhi College of Engineering in
India.
* Nicolas Boichat's project is a USB sniffer on Beagle Board. Nicolas
is being mentored by Hunyue Yau. I'm proposing Laine Walker-Avina and
Frans Meulenbroeks to assist as co-mentors. Nicolas is finishing his
Masters at EPFL (Switzerland).
* Pramod Poudel's project is OpenCV DSP Acceleration. Pramod is being
mentored by Leonardo Estevez. I'm proposing Katie Roberts-Hoffman and
Luis Gustavo Lira to assist as co-mentors. Pramod attends University
of Texas at Tyler, Texas, USA.

Thanks all for each of the roughly 60 proposals submitted to
BeagleBoard.org!! I hope that you'll continue to participate and will
consider submitting a proposal again next year. There's been a bit of
a lag in the weekly sponsored projects. Boards should be in the GSoC
students' hands this week, so I hope that you register your project
there to still have the opportunity to get a board and execute your
idea.

From the GSoC timeline, we are currently in the Community Bonding
Period and very close to launching our projects:

Community Bonding Period:
Students get to know mentors, read documentation, get up to speed to
begin working on their projects.

May 24:
* Students begin coding for their GSoC projects;
* Google begins issuing initial student payments provided tax forms
are on file and students are in good standing with their communities.

Every student should be in contact with his/her mentor and co-mentors
on a regular basis. This Monday, May 17th will be an all-hands
meeting on #beagle at 14:00 UTC / 10AM EDT.

P.S. Mentors registered with GSoC, please contact me if I don't have
the roles defined adequately--I don't mind adding additional co-
mentors.

Jason, thanks for the update. I'll be happy to co-mentor Nicholas

All: the link given by Jason has a traling period. The blog link is:
http://beagleboard.blogspot.com/2010/05/six-beagleboardorg-gsoc-projects.html

Have fun, Frans

Hello everyone!

I'm Yaman, and I surely want to shout out how very glad I am to be
able to become part of this! (I was reluctant to do so since I thought
IRC was unsuitable and this mailing list was awfully quiet).

I received my Beagle yesterday, got the cables in order today and will
be getting my hands dirty tonight (the European night, that is).

Congrats to all fellow students and mentors, and congrats to the
BeagleBoard.org community for being such a great community and
acquiring 6 of the 1026 of the GSoC slots.

And I'm maltanar on IRC, by the way :slight_smile:

Hi,
I am Pramod Poudel. I will be working on OpenCV DSP acceleration this summer. I am glad to work on this topic with BeagleBoard.org. Being first step on the open-source community, I am little reluctent to talk. But I will try to learn and interact.
I can be seen as ppoudel on IRC.
I would also like to sincerely congrats my fellow friends and mentors who will be working this summer on GSOC.

I for one hadn't heard anything either, and was wondering what was
going on ... and this silence was probably one reason I've been more
distracted by other things lately.

I have started a private conversation with Tobias and he seems pretty
switched on, but without hardware there didn't seem much to discuss
yet. I also need to get more familiar with the particular project
given the only connection is the hardware.

Michael

I'll be happy to co-mentor Pramod

Hi! I'm Tobias and am extremely gratefull for the oppurtunity
beagleboard community and google have offered me and it will be a fun
summer indeed!

I'm topfs2 in #beagle if anyone wants to ping me there, idle there
nearly always :slight_smile:

> This mailing list has been too quiet for this to be the bonding
> period!! It is time to get things going!

I for one hadn't heard anything either, and was wondering what was
going on ... and this silence was probably one reason I've been more
distracted by other things lately.

I have started a private conversation with Tobias and he seems pretty
switched on, but without hardware there didn't seem much to discuss
yet. I also need to get more familiar with the particular project
given the only connection is the hardware.

Want to say that so far it haven't dragged me down that much, I have
fortunately an opengl es 2.0 emulator which has been enough for me to
produce sandbox tests. One fellow over at the xbmc community frankly
pinged me to give him stuff to test on his tegra to get to the bottom of
the slow down and we have reached lots to lots of conclusions, which is
fun.

So I have been able to begin coding up stuff that would allow for those
problems to hopefully be solved. And gotten a refactor approved by
Jonathan (guilib mastermind in xbmc :slight_smile: ) for the control reorganize that
would allow event-based and dirty region rendering

Michael

Tobias

Hi all,

First, thanks for accepting my project! I'll be working on a USB sniffer on the BeagleBoard.

There is already some basic info about the project (not much more than what was on my application) on a wiki page here:
http://www.elinux.org/BeagleBoard/GSoC/USBSniffer .

I also created a blog for more important updates:
http://beagleboard-usbsniffer.blogspot.com/ (it's empty at the moment).

For the IRC channel, I'll try to hang around, my nick is "drinkcat".

Best regards,

Nicolas

Hi everyone!!
I'm Varun Jewalikar and I am working on the project to develop a high
level interface for PWM for BB. I am very thaankful and excited with
this opportunity provided by google and the beagleboard community to
me.
My nick on IRC is neo01124 and you will find me idling at #beagle.

Regards