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=== Why is your organization applying to participate in GSoC 2008? What do you hope to gain by participating? ===
=== Why is your organization applying to participate in GSoC 2008? What do you hope to gain by participating? ===
For one thing, we hope to attract new blood: we hope to gain some new active developers via these projects. While we already have several very active contributors, these people are already mostly busy in specific subprojects and tasks. New people mean new ideas, new energy, and new ways of thinking. Therefore, a longer lasting engagement of our student contributors would be our highest hope.
Drawing from our pleasant experience during our participation in GSoC '07 we feel compelled to apply again this year. Our goals for the gains to be attained through GSoC remain almost the same.


Furthermore, all of our developers work on ScummVM in their spare time. But for some tasks, it's most effective if you can spend a certain block of time working on this task exclusively; just what we would get via the SoC.
Firstly, we hope to gain some new active developers. While we already have several very active contributors, these people are already mostly busy in specific subprojects and tasks. New people mean new ideas, new energy, and new ways of thinking. Therefore, a longer lasting engagement of our student contributors would be our highest hope.
Hence, we hope to gain some nice shiny new code providing useful new functionality to our users and developers. Even if the authors don't stick around, this will benefit all of the ScummVM community.


Lastly, we also believe that we can learn a lot from this whole event in terms of interaction with prospective new team members, how to motivate students to participate in our projects, and so forth: knowledge that may turn out to be very valuable outside of the SoC, too.
Furthermore, we have a list of self-contained tasks on specific aspects of ScummVM which have not been tackled yet. These tasks will improve the functionality of ScummVM, making them valuable to the ScummVM community. GSoC is a very good opportunity to have these implemented through the incentives the program offers. These tasks also present a good point of entry for new developers to ease themselves in the extensive ScummVM codebase.


Also, Leslie owes Kostas a few smokes from last year; we hope to have a chance to evem this out too. ''delete this after having your laugh :-)''


===  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. ===
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