Now it is time to prepare all necessary docs for application.
Questions we should answer first:
Who is willing to participate as mentor? It would be nice if you provide a project ideas that you are willing to mentor. If you have potential student who can carry the project - please mention that too.
Help to discuss ideas for student’s projects. See list from previous year - Ideas List — Synfig developers docs documentation.
Remember that we can accept idea only if there are someone who is willing to mentor it. In any case, post your crazy ideas in this thread and get fellow devs interested.
Prepare list of simple issues to test skills of aspiring students. We need to examine list of existing issues in our tracker and mark some of them with “good-first-issue”, “help-wanted” and “Easy” labels. Adding simple issues is also appreciated.
Important notes for GSoC 2022:
This year there will be both projects for ~175 hours and projects for ~350 hours.
Also this year, not only students can participate, but everyone over 18 years old can participate. The program will no longer be solely focused on university students or recent graduates. So if you previously wanted to participate, but could not, then this is your chance.
Good idea, but not with Synfig, because when you cut a spline then in Synfig it would be represented by two different Outline layers, and merging them would make them one layer. So maybe we should make the spline more like Standard SVG and then implement this feature.
Like implementing this
We should focus on curve editor, which would actually have spline curve interpolation. Adding this would make the animation much smoother and give more control to animator.
Also the same idea for posting/exposing Synfig actions to Python (or Javascript). And provide an interactive way for plugins to interact with the user.
That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try this again.
(of course only in case if there is a person who willing to mentor this).
I think the main problem here is that first we should write a document which describes API (classes, functions) and how they make all together. Something like this -
Most of the time it is important to describe the expected outcome of the project in detail and, yes, usually this takes time. I have done a description for “Intuitive drawing” project, which fits very well for GSoC. But unfortunately I will not have enough time this summer to mentor it.
Note: we also need to update our list of active projects. I think it’s okay to mark “Lottie” and “Skeleton tool” projects as completed. Anyone can help?
The idea of Cloud Rendering Platform proposed in 2020 would be great and even better if it was declined as a coolaborative distributed system like SETI@Home or Folding@Home projects.
We could have the possibility for everyone to “share” a part of its CPU to help to render projects of the others.
Possibility to choose hours of sharing, max allowed CPU, on idle…
Queueing
Centralisation of offers/requests
We could also imagine a system of points to permit a higher priority for projects to render for the ones who share the most and so on…
Of course open-source and with enough security to do only rendering and not bitcoin mining
First we would focus on scriptable commands without GUI stuff.
We should expose get_xxxx() methods of Canvas, ValueNode (and Const/Animated/LinkableValueNode) and Layer classes.
Then the synfigapp API would be exposed.
It looks like I will be able to mentor “Conan integration for Build System” project. I am into that stuff anyway in next months, so I don’t mind to get a student and curate him to do that work.
Considering current political situation, I suggest that we add at least one more person as GSoC administrator, who is not resident of Russia. If anyone interested please contact me ASAP.
i’ve always wanted a converter that would allow points on a spline to animate to audio or objects to animate automatically to audio. Well it may not be a converter but that’s something I would love to have in Synfig. I’m too late to share
I’m an aspiring GSOC contributor here and my project of choice would be " User Interface improvements " and " replacement of deprecated GTK classes". I don’t know if it’s allowed to combine two of the suggested projects but I have read that now there are large projects (around 350 hrs if I remember correctly). I’m free all summer and I enjoy contributing so I thought why not! I could probably put in way more time than that.
Regarding why I chose those two projects specifically is because after some time of being around here I found myself coming into contact a lot with UI related issues, and therefore got to know more about gtkmm. Also while doing so I found out that I actually enjoyed tweaking things to get different implementations and functionalities that have the potential to enhance the user experience.
Edit: I have seen that a better idea would just be to expand the scope of the already given UI project, instead of also working on replacing deprecated GTK classes, by implementing and fixing more things which would help keep the project more consistent and really be able to deliever a meningful, sensed addition to Synfigs UI.
Myself Dhairya Bahl and I am a part of synfig from more than 1 year. I would love to mentor the following project ideas for this year.
Enhance building process by integrating Conan C++ package manager
Replacement of deprecated Gtk classes
Building Synfig with the MSVC/vcpkg toolkit
I can help the contributor with these projects. All of my work till now is closely related to replacement of deprecated Gtk Classes. And I am able to understand that how I exactly rest of the two issues must be approached. So, I think that I will be able to guide the fellow contributors with these project ideas.
No potential candidates.
