Google Summer of Code 2007 Update
Google announced their decisions regarding this year’s Summer of Code. The Ardour project has been awarded 2 projects, which are:
- MIDI editing
- by Dave Robillard, Carleton University, Ottawa (mentored by Paul Davis). Dave picked the short straw and will be working 27 hours a day to implement every item of MIDI editing functionality known to man.
- N.M panning
- by Christian Muise, Carleton University, Ottawa (mentored by Jesse Chappell). Christian will be working on adding back end support for more traditional multispeaker panning systems (like 5.1, 10.2 and so forth) along with a GUI to control it.
Google ended up awarding projects to just 900 students, of 3000+ applicants (and more than 6000 applications), so our two projects are a very positive outcome for us.
We welcome Dave back to paid summer work on Ardour, and offer a new welcome to Christian. Is it a coincidence that they are both at Carleton? Hard to say. Will it be useful to have two SoC students at the same institution? The summer will reveal all…
Congratulations to both students! As a Carleton grad myself, you make me very proud :-)
Brent
p.s. Small nitpick: the city is spelt Ottawa.
Congratulations !
I’ll will take great pleasure in torturing ardour midi support with jack_nuke, bwahaha !
Marc-Olivier Barre,
Kinoko en Orbite
hey hey hey, i wish i could code too, but in this condition I am a lefty. But can’t await to try it.
Congrats to both of the folks working on the projects, very much looking forward to both. I do hope consideration is given to the Ambisonics panning system that was discussed a little bit back on the Ardour list(Ardour-Users or Dev, I can’t remember which).
Very much looking forward to the results, this will get me working exclusively with Ardour in Linux and one more reason to get rid of the KDE libs, not that Rosegarden is bad, just that I would rather work with ardour.
Seablade