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What we hope to gain is valuable code contributions. In the past, we've had students take up and complete tasks which had been marked as "to-do", but the main developers were at a loss of time to implement them. The students have taken these up as self-contained GSoC projects and realized them. But also, some students have come up with new functionality, proposed and finally implemented it. These have been our favorite. | What we hope to gain is valuable code contributions. In the past, we've had students take up and complete tasks which had been marked as "to-do", but the main developers were at a loss of time to implement them. The students have taken these up as self-contained GSoC projects and realized them. But also, some students have come up with new functionality, proposed and finally implemented it. These have been our favorite. | ||
In addition, we hope to gain new developers in the project. We hope that after their projects, students will stick around and improve them or work on other interesting tasks. We hope that GSoC brings the students in touch with open source and in our case bring them in touch with game developing. We hope these students will add their piece of code in this project and will keep on contributing afterwards. | In addition, we hope to gain new developers in the project. We hope that after their projects, students will stick around and improve them or work on other interesting tasks. We hope that GSoC brings the students in touch with open source and, in our case, bring them in touch with game developing. We hope these students will add their piece of code in this project and will keep on contributing afterwards. | ||
We've been successful in the past two years and really looking forward to great | We've been successful in the past two years and we're really looking forward to great results from the program this year too. | ||
=== Did your organization participate in past GSoCs? If so, please summarize your involvement and the successes and challenges of your participation. === | === Did your organization participate in past GSoCs? If so, please summarize your involvement and the successes and challenges of your participation. === | ||