Re: [pygame] Summer of Code Ideas

["René Dudfield" <renesd@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I would definitely be interested in the webcam for pygame project... Since this would have more of an inpact on the games people could make with pygame.

So there are two options... try and get this accepted as a python project, or a SDL project.

You'd need access to at least windows, mac, and linux machines.  As well as a selection of webcams to test with.  However we can probably get more people to test stuff via the mailing lists.  It might also be cool if you could get it working with OLPC (which is a weird kind of linux too).  Making it in C will allow people from other projects to help maintain it with you, and will make it available to more people.  The python wrapping part won't be the hard part I think.

Join up to the python gsoc mailing list and start discussing it there.  Since the project will need support of either the python group, or the SDL group if you go that way.

Python Software Foundation (ideas)

Simple DirectMedia Layer (ideas)

If you decide to go the SDL way, join the mailing list there and talk about it there with them.


cheers,

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 7:04 PM, Luke Paireepinart <rabidpoobear@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I've read over the proposals in the Pygame wiki (
http://www.pygame.org/wiki/gsoc2008ideas ).
I'm particularly interested in the AI and Webcam support.  I would also
like to add cross-platform Wii Remote support as an input device (with
some algorithms for head-tracking ala Johnny Lee
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/ ).
Who should I speak to about which of these would be most desirable?
Rene or Pete, perhaps?
I'd really like to help with the development of pygame for SoC.
Thanks,
-Luke