Community bonding period and coding start

After the project was accepted, there were a few gsoc-related things I had to do before the coding phase.
That's what community bonding period is for.
Thanks to the quaification task, everything was set up to start coding, and I only had to deal with svn.
I've got acquainted with all nomacs mentors (there are two of them for each project) and another gsoc student, working on nomacs. We are communicating via e-mail and Skype.
Also, I was asked to set up this blog and to provide Google some official information.


The first iteration of the coding phase is completed, now I'm working on the second one. Unfortunately, I have exam session in June, so I'm not exactly following the timeline, but I should catch up with it by the mid-term evaluation.

I think, the next post will be about mid-term evaluation and my results at this milestone.

Applying for GSoC

When Google Summer of Code 2012 started, I had some project ideas in mind, but finally gave them up.
So I just looked through the list of accepted organizations, found those, that fitted me and started thinking about the project.
I didn't want to apply for a project from ideas list, because that's less interesting and more competitive, that thinking up your own idea.
At the Advanced Computer Graphics course I was told about high dynamic range images and thought that rendering and displaying them would be a good feature for nomacs image viewer and a project big enough and interesting enough for "coding the summer away".
After that I completed the qualification task (simple processing of RAW images for nomacs) and wrote the application.
Here it is: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2012/fm/1

I think that's all about the application process, let me know, if you'd like to get some additional information.
In this blog I will be writing short reports about my work during Summer of Code, the next post will be about the community bonding period.