[Scilab-Dev] mentoring for GSOC2012

[Ricardo Fabbri]

OK. The worst that can happen? we put the ideas down.
I can get a couple student applications in I believe. Question, then,
is if they'll be good enough.

Best,
Ricardo Fabbri
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On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Sylvestre Ledru
<sylvestre.ledru at scilab-enterprises.com> wrote:
> removing dev at lists.scilab.org from the c/c
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> Sure but since the deadline is next friday, I am not very optimistic.
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> On 02/04/2012 17:23, Ricardo Fabbri wrote:
>>
>> Should we go ahead and add the ideas on the wiki page
>> http://wiki.scilab.org/GSoC_project_proposal ?
>>
>> Feel free to add me as a mentor on the existing ideas which need mentors.
>>
>> best,
>> Ricardo Fabbri
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>> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Sylvestre Ledru
>> <sylvestre.ledru at scilab-enterprises.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On 02/04/2012 17:11, Ricardo Fabbri wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> ure! This could be great. What kind of subjects would you like to
>>>>> propose ?
>>>>> http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2012
>>>>>
>>>> I am willing to work on one of the projects on the ideas page, however I
>>>> would
>>>> be most effective, as you know, in working with a SIP or image
>>>> processing
>>>> related project. One idea I've already detailed for GSOC would be to
>>>> interface
>>>> the Leptonica C library (from Google) with Scilab
>>>>
>>>> http://wiki.nosdigitais.teia.org.br/GSoC#SIP
>>>>
>>>> There are also many other ideas for improving SIP. One of them is to add
>>>> more
>>>> OpenCV functionality, beyond the simple ones I've already added
>>>> recently.
>>>> Other
>>>> SIP-related ideas are listed in the todo page:
>>>>
>>>> http://sourceforge.net/apps/taskfreak/siptoolbox/public.php
>>>>
>>> Why not.
>>>
>>>
>>>> I could also work on a project related to improving the GUI for more
>>>> interactive
>>>> plot editing. I have already posted on this before:
>>>>
>>>> "I would like to start off playing with the
>>>> graphics branch to test and improve image-related things. Then I could
>>>> also try to improve the graphics UI part, to make plots more
>>>> interactive with data (clicking + deleting a curve, clicking +
>>>> obtaining data from a curve, etc)."
>>>
>>> Such projects would be very interesting.
>>>
>>>> Basically, improving things like tooltip functionality, and actual
>>>> adding/deleting of plot
>>>> elements, inspecting values, etc, both in 2D and 3D. This basically
>>>> means
>>>> treating the scilab graphic window as a vector graphics, through an
>>>> editing
>>>> interface, and then being able to get the data back in scilab. This idea
>>>> can
>>>> also specialize to the case of image display. We want a fast image
>>>> display, but
>>>> also a flexible one, where pixels can be inspected, edited, and
>>>> displayed
>>>> with
>>>> custom markers, all of which are very useful for developing and
>>>> debugging
>>>> imaging algorithms. A powerful interactive GUI is one of the main things
>>>> that
>>>> makes Scilab stand out from, eg, python and octave in their current
>>>> form.
>>>>
>>> I would be happy to have a student working on improving the current
>>> graphic.
>>> For your information, there is an important development in the graphic
>>> branch. Graphics are now way easier to maintain and update while
>>> performances have been improved between 4 to 10 times...
>>>
>>>> However, as I said, I can help mentor one of the projects in the ideas
>>>> page. Most notably:
>>>>
>>>> - QHull interface
>>>> - PDE module
>>>> - PDF generation
>>>> - CUBLAS and other CUDA features
>>>> - contextual menus, progress bar
>>>> - Graphic I/O of vtk, protobuf, etc
>>>
>>> It depends the students ;)
>>>
>>>
>>> Sylvestre
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