Editing Google Summer of Code/2014

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= GSoC 2014 With BRL-CAD =

'''BRL-CAD was accepted as a [http://www.google-melange.com/ mentoring organization] for the Google Summer of Code!'''  We accepted as many students as we had mentors and quality student proposals, the latter being the deciding factor this year.  We accepted '''11''' students, of which '''10''' were successful in their projects.

= Accepted Projects =
==Benchmark Performance Database==
* '''Objective''' : Build a database and visualization website for the BRL-CAD Benchmarks.
* '''Student''' : [http://brlcad.org/wiki/User:Ankeshanand/ Ankesh Anand]
* [http://brlcad.org/wiki/User:Ankeshanand/GSoC14/proposal Project Proposal]
* [http://brlcad.org/wiki/User:Ankeshanand/GSoC14/logs Development Logs]
* [http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/details/google/gsoc2014/ankeshanand/5750085036015616 Google-Melange]

==Embedding a framebuffer window==
* '''Objective''' : Creating a new cross platform Qt framebuffer and embedding a framebuffer window in the actual Qt display manager.
* '''Student''' : [http://brlcad.org/wiki/User:Vladbogolin Bogolin Simion Vlad]
* [http://brlcad.org/wiki/User:Vladbogolin/Proposal/EmbeddingFrameBuffer Project Proposal]
* [http://brlcad.org/wiki/User:Vladbogolin/GSoC2014/Logs Development Logs]
* [https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/details/google/gsoc2014/vladbogolin/5812572515205120 Google-Melange]

==Online Geometry Viewer==
* '''Objective''' : Port existing Online Geometry Viewer to node.js, and improve it.
* '''Student''' : [http://brlcad.org/wiki/User:Inderpreet/ Inderpreet Singh]
* [http://brlcad.org/wiki/User:Inderpreet/OGV_Proposal Project Proposal]
* [http://brlcad.org/wiki/User:Inderpreet/GSoC14/logs Development Logs]
* [http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/public/google/gsoc2014/ishwerdas/5649050225344512 Proposal on Google-Melange]

==STEP Libraries: Improving Thread Safety and Performance==
* '''Objective''' : Modify the existing STEP Libraries to make them thread safe. Implement multithreading (atleast) in lazyloading. Identify exisitig bottlenecks and improve the performance of the serial code.
* '''Student''' : Pulkit Mittal
* [http://brlcad.org/wiki/User:Pulkit%20Mittal/GSOC2014/proposal Project Proposal]
* [http://brlcad.org/wiki/User:Pulkit%20Mittal/GSOC2014/logs Development Logs]
* [https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/student/google/gsoc2014/hoiji/5629499534213120 Google-Melange]

==Creating a Geometry Conversion Library==
* '''Objective:''' TBD
* '''Student:''' [http://brlcad.org/wiki/User:Hcurtis0010/ Henry Curtis]
* Project Proposal
* [http://brlcad.org/wiki/User:Hcurtis0010/GSoC2014/logs Development Logs]
* Project Description

==Mesh Library Cleanup==
* '''Objective:''' Clean, validate and verify relevant source code about NMG, and then add the missing Euler Operation to it.
* '''Student:''' Zhao Anqing
* [http://brlcad.org/wiki/User:Clouddrift/GSoC2014 Project Proposal]
* [http://brlcad.org/wiki/User:Clouddrift/GSoC2014/Logs Development Logs]
* [https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/student/google/gsoc2014/clouddrift/5668600916475904 Google-Melange]

==UI Brushup of OpenSCAD==
* '''Objective''' : To improve the UI of OpenSCAD by removing existing bugs and adding new features.
* '''Student''' : [http://brlcad.org/wiki/User:Shainasabarwal/ Shaina Sabarwal]
* [http://brlcad.org/wiki/User:Shainasabarwal/Openscad_UI_Brushup Project Proposal]
* [http://brlcad.org/wiki/User:Shainasabarwal/GSoC14/logs Development Logs]
* [http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/student/google/gsoc2014/shaina/5629499534213120 Proposal on Google-Melange]

==Python Geometry==
* '''Objective''' : To write Python Bindings for BRL-CAD Geometry 
* '''Student''' : [http://brlcad.org/wiki/User:Krajkreddy/main Raj K. Reddy]
* [http://brlcad.org/wiki/User:Krajkreddy/GSOC14/proposal Project Proposal]
* [http://brlcad.org/wiki/User:Krajkreddy/GSOC14/summary Development Logs]
* [http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/details/google/gsoc2014/krajkreddy/5766466041282560 Google-Melange]

==Materials Database Project==
* '''Objective''' : To make a web application where users can easily store / retrieve the properties or traits of materials in a methodical manner.
* '''Student''' : [http://brlcad.org/wiki/User:Albertcoder/ Albert]
* [http://brlcad.org/wiki/User:Albertcoder/Proposal/materialdatabase Project Proposal]
* [http://brlcad.org/wiki/User:Albertcoder/GSoC2014/logs Development Logs]
* [http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/public/google/gsoc2014/albertcoder/5629499534213120 Proposal on Google-Melange]

==Object-oriented C++ Geometry API==
* '''Objective''' : Implement a number of selected primitives in an OOP manner, according to the rt_*_internal structure
* '''Student''' : [http://brlcad.org/wiki/User:Popescu.andrei1991 Andrei Popescu]
* [http://brlcad.org/wiki/User:Popescu.andrei1991/proposal2014 Project Proposal]
* [http://brlcad.org/wiki/User:Popescu.andrei1991/devlogs2014 Development Logs]
* [https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/details/google/gsoc2014/popescuandrei/5653164804014080 Proposal on Google-Melange]

==LibreCAD Kernel==
* '''Objective''' : To create a 2D Kernel of LibreCAD's version 3.
* '''Student''' : [brlcad.org/wiki/User:Gaganjyotsingh/ Gaganjyot]
* [http://brlcad.org/wiki/User:Gaganjyotsingh/Proposal/LibreCADkickoff Project Proposal]
* [http://codebasement.wordpress.com/ Development Logs]
* [http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/student/google/gsoc2014/gaganjyot/5662278724616192 Proposal on Google-Melange]

= Additional Information =

Students discussed and collaborated with BRL-CAD developers on formulating projects with most selecting from a detailed list of project suggestions from our [[Google_Summer_of_Code/Project_Ideas|Project Ideas]] page.   Student applications for [[Google_Summer_of_Code|GSoC]] will be accepted at http://google-melange.com from March 10 through March 21.

[[Category: Summer of Code]]