jME participation in Google Summer of Code 2020

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I’ve seen it on so many idea list that I feel its a necessity. It might point the students towards other resources that dive deep into the idea that is not possible to include in the short description.

Yes, that is always expected in GSoC project. But I think this gives serious students a direction to start.

A pending pull request from DarkChaos shows an example.

A list of bug fixes does not require in depth knowledge of the engine…maybe we can list them as a prerequisite tasks when they apply.

Can you please send a pull request?

@jayfella Is there anything we can do to help you in the application process?

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I’ve filled the sections and made a simple test for Asset Importing.
Has the application been submitted? @jayfella

(4 hours till the deadline atm) :clock4: :hourglass_flowing_sand: :timer_clock:

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The application is completed. All we can do now is wait. Thank you @Darkchaos for helping out with the submission form :heart: .

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Good job and thank you :hibiscus: for the quick reply. Yes, all we can do now is :hourglass_flowing_sand:.

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Thank you all! That was tight.

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Thanks to everyone who helped us meet the deadline.

Hours later, I’ve already been contacted (on e-mail) by one person interested in contributing to the Minie Simple Game project.

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wasnt this the person who want create Minecraft car physics Mod?(since there was one person who was willing send you email) its mod, not game then :slight_smile:

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btw Announcement will already be on 20th February, 15 days.

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In 2014 they made all the organization representative join a live chat group. I could not find how they would announce it this time.

@Darkchaos I’ve added incubating tag next to Shader Node idea. (Pending pull request)

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The e-mail came from a different address, and the sender used a different name. For now, I’m assuming they’re 2 different people.

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Are you planning on asking students to do some tasks before/while contacting you? You can add it in the Tests section.

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If so, you can take an example at my projects, I’ve designed the tests so that students are forced to understand/work towards using JME. Once they’ve solved the tests, they are basically all set up to start developing.

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I’m looking at the list of organizations, and I don’t see JMonkeyEngine…

https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations

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there was already notify(by @Darkchaos ) on discord that we were rejected.

he just forget write it here i assume.

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Do we know why we were rejected?

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The E-Mail was very precise there:

Thank you for applying to be a Google Summer of Code 2020 mentor organization. Sadly, we were unable to accept jMonkeyEngine this year. We had many more applications than available slots. We hope you will apply again in the future!

I didn’t post here yet, because I planned to write something along the lines of “at least speaking of me as Mentor, we can still do any of these project ideas, as some of them are very relevant for the near future of jme, so if someone is up for a bigger project, just hit me up”.

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It is unfortunate that they are not providing any details. The idea page was lacking?
Or something else…

From GSoC documentation the most important criteria for selection is the idea page. But our idea page is far better then many that were selected for GSoC 2020.

For example, CircuitVerse got selected when they have only 4 big ideas(where 1 of them is bring your own idea) with little no details and only 2 mentors. Here is their idea page:
CircuitVerse GSoC 2020 idea page

Very frustrating.

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Maybe they don’t consider jme a viable project?

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Just as likely to be completely random at some point. A whole pile chosen by raffle.

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Or “Slush Pile” issues, especially for projects submitted late in the process… It’s possible that no one had time to review it properly.