[pygame] Google summer of code student proposals announced.

["René Dudfield" <renesd@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

there's been a few pygame related proposals accepted by google.
Unfortunately there's also been a number of good proposals which
weren't accepted.  This year python software foundation(psf) got
allocated less slots than previously, and they also had way more
proposals.

Here's the announcement from google:
http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2008/04/announcing-accepted-student-proposals.html



I'm sorry to those people not accepted, but I hope you at least gained
some proposal writing experience.

Some people have also been accepted to the SDL, OLPC, and BBC
organisations also doing some pygame related things.

SDL (pygame uses SDL)
http://code.google.com/soc/2008/sdl/about.html
Force Feedback for SDL by Edgar Simo, mentored by Ryan C. Gordon
Audio Ideas - Resampling and Pitch Shifting by Aaron Wishnick,
mentored by Ryan C. Gordon
Bring SDL to iPhone and iPod Touch by Holmes Futrell, mentored by Sam Lantinga
Port SDL 1.3 to the Nintendo DS, add touch input API by Darren Alton,
mentored by Sam Lantinga
Refresh pointing device support by Szymon Wilczek, mentored by Ryan C. Gordon

Python Software foundation
http://code.google.com/soc/2008/psf/about.html
Expanding and Documenting PyGraphics CPython Implementation by Virpobe
Luke Paireepinart, mentored by Paul Gries
pygame tests - preparation for py3k, pypy, jython, tinypy, pygame
running on flash VM by Nicholas Dudfield,  mentored by Marcus von
Appen & Rene Dudfield
There's a number of core python, and also numpy projects accepted by
the psf which should also be interesting to pygame people.


BBC Research (Kamaelia uses pygame)
http://code.google.com/soc/2008/bbc/about.html
A multi-user networked music sequencer by Joseph Turner, mentored by
Sylvain Hellegouarch
Multi-Window Paint and 2D Animation Tool by David King, mentored by Matt Hammond
Logging and testing Framework for Kamaelia Systems by Pablo Orduña,
mentored by Michael Philip Sparks
Change the Kamaelia topology visualiser to work in full 3D by Chong
Liu, mentored by Michael Philip Sparks
KamConnect by Jason M Baker, mentored by Michael Philip Sparks

OLPC
http://code.google.com/soc/2008/olpc/about.html
Vision Processing by Nirav Patel, mentored by Chris Hager





cheers,