[ros-dev] Google Summer of Code

[François Revol]

> >> Our friendly OS project Haiku gets accepted every year, so being 
> > > an
> >> OS is not a problem.
> >> Wine is certainly accepted every year from the beginning, and this
> >> year is not an exception. So it's definately not a problem of 
> > > "legal
> >> fear" of Microsoft.
> >
> > In the same spirit of sharing from the FOSDEM invitation, I'm sure 
> > we
> > could find some projects on Haiku that would benefit ReactOS as 
> > well.
> > Some time ago I talked about the webcam driver I wrote, which could
> > likely be made portable. Another developer already started adding 
> > UVC
> > support to it, so it'd likely be interesting to ROS as well.
> Thanks a lot, but this could limit your own participation, since  
> number of slots is usually very limited. It's really nice to offer  
> this from your side.

It seems it might be possible to actually have someone from ReactOS to 
mentor such a project.
This would free our own mentors to supervise other projects, so from 
this point of view it could allow having more.
Also, we would both benefit in having more models supported on this 
driver.

> > Also, something that seemed to appeal to Google last year was our
> > attempt at extending the allocated GSoC slots by running our own  
> > funded
> > HCD (Haiku Code Drive), to sponsor some more projects.
> > see:
> > http://www.haiku-os.org/tags/hcd2008_0
> 
> We are preparing a similar thing called Community Funded Ideas. It's  
> not ready for big announcement yet, but we are working towards it.

Good to hear.

François.