On 06/04/22 21:13, Taylor Blau wrote:
Thanks for this information, it's exactly the sort of thing that I was hoping for from your response ;-). Like I said in my other message, let's play it by ear whether or not we need to split the project. If we get closer to the next deadline and we have >1 potential GSoC students interested, then I'm happy to split it up. One thing that I worry about a little bit is that I think a new on-disk .bitmap format will be necessary for both of the projects that Plato and Shubham are interested in (though I could be wrong). Since GSoC forbids students from working together, it may be difficult to feasibly split the bitmaps project into multiple, smaller ones. That said, if we do end up splitting the bitmaps GSoC project in two, when would we need to do it by?
To the best of my knowledge, Google does not require the proposal ideas to be laid out by organization before the proposal deadline (which is April 19). This gives the flexibility for mentors and GSoC contributors to collaborate and come up with a project ideas that are not present in the initial ideas list and write proposals for them. The only significant requirement is that once a proposal has been selected, the corresponding GSoC contributor should not be made to work on drastically different project. I hope Chrisitan will correct me in case I missed something. -- Sivaraam
