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|Participation in prior SoCs: || Yes
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|Applications for prior SoCs: || [[Summer of Code/Application/2012|2012]], [[Summer of Code/Application/2011|2011]], [[Summer of Code/Application/2009|2009]], [[Summer of Code/Application/2008|2008]], [[Summer of Code/Application/2007|2007]]
|Applications for prior SoCs: || [[Summer of Code/Application/2013|2013]], [[Summer of Code/Application/2012|2012]], [[Summer of Code/Application/2011|2011]], [[Summer of Code/Application/2009|2009]], [[Summer of Code/Application/2008|2008]], [[Summer of Code/Application/2007|2007]]
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|Organization administrator: || Eugene Sandulenko (sev.mail AT gmail.com) link_id: sev
|Organization administrator: || Eugene Sandulenko (sev.mail AT gmail.com) link_id: sev
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ScummVM has a highly productive team of about 42 currently active developers (out of an all-time pool of over 110), working together on a codebase almost 1,700,000 lines of code. In addition ScummVM has many non-developer contributors, and a huge and highly active community. ScummVM is among the top ranking projects hosted on sourceforge.net with over 100,000 monthly downloads and ~10 million project web hits per month.
ScummVM has a highly productive team of about 42 currently active developers (out of an all-time pool of over 110), working together on a codebase almost 1,700,000 lines of code. In addition ScummVM has many non-developer contributors, and a huge and highly active community. ScummVM is among the top ranking projects hosted on sourceforge.net with over 100,000 monthly downloads and ~10 million project web hits per month.


=== Why is your organization applying to participate in Google Summer of Code 2013? What do you hope to gain by participating? ===
=== Why is your organization applying to participate in Google Summer of Code 2014? What do you hope to gain by participating? ===
Each year since 2007, the program gave us the opportunity to have talented and motivated students working with us. We also love the GSoC mentor summit where we have the opportunity to share our knowledge with mentors from other projects and to learn a lot from them. That's why we wait impatiently, each year, for the announcement of a new GSoC program!
Each year since 2007, the program gave us the opportunity to have talented and motivated students working with us. We also love the GSoC mentor summit where we have the opportunity to share our knowledge with mentors from other projects and to learn a lot from them. That's why we wait impatiently, each year, for the announcement of a new GSoC program!


As usual, what we hope to gain is valuable code contributions. In previous years, we've had students take up and complete tasks which had been marked as "to-do", but the main developers had no time to implement them. The students took these up as self-contained GSoC projects and realized them. But also, some students have come up with new functionality, proposing and finally implementing it. These have been our favorite.
As usual, what we hope to gain is valuable code contributions. In previous years, we've had students take up and complete tasks which had been marked as "to-do", but the main developers had no time to implement them. The students took these up as self-contained GSoC projects and realized them. But also, some students have come up with new functionality, proposing and finally implementing it. These have been our favorite.


In addition, we hope to gain new developers for 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, brings them in touch with game development. We hope these students will add their piece of code to this project, but will also keep on contributing afterwards. Last year, a student met all those expectations and even managed to exceed them: Einar Johan Trøan Sømåen is still contributing to the project and is even volunteering to be a mentor this year!
In addition, we hope to gain new developers for 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, brings them in touch with game development. We hope these students will add their piece of code to this project, but will also keep on contributing afterwards.


We've been successful in the past six years, and we're really looking forward to great results from the program this year too.
We've been successful in the past seven years, and we're really looking forward to great results from the program this year too.


=== Has your organization participated in past Google Summer of Codes? (Yes / No) ===
=== Has your organization participated in past Google Summer of Codes? (Yes / No) ===
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===  If you answered “yes” to the question above, please summarize your involvement and the successes and challenges of your participation. Please also list your pass/fail rate for each year. ===
===  If you answered “yes” to the question above, please summarize your involvement and the successes and challenges of your participation. Please also list your pass/fail rate for each year. ===
We have participated in the GSoC program for six years running, in 2007-2012.
We have participated in the GSoC program for seven years running, in 2007-2013.
 
In 2013, ... FILL IN THIS ...


In 2012, 5 team members mentored 4 students. Each mentor was also the co-mentor of another task, so the backup mentoring was still working well. 3 students passed, and one failed at mid-term. One student is still contributing to the project and volunteered to be a mentor for GSoC 2013, which is really awesome. Based on discussion with other projects and on our experience, we are considering merging student code earlier in the GSoC process and have modified our processes accordingly for the next year.
In 2012, 5 team members mentored 4 students. Each mentor was also the co-mentor of another task, so the backup mentoring was still working well. 3 students passed, and one failed at mid-term. One student is still contributing to the project and volunteered to be a mentor for GSoC 2013, which is really awesome. Based on discussion with other projects and on our experience, we are considering merging student code earlier in the GSoC process and have modified our processes accordingly for the next year.
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Summary pass/fail:
Summary pass/fail:
2013: ... FILL IN THIS ...
2012: 3/1
2012: 3/1
2011: 1/1
2011: 1/1
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===  What is the URL for your Ideas list? **This is the most important part of your proposal. Please make sure we can access it and it is complete when you submit this proposal. “Placeholder” or inaccessible ideas pages will be grounds for an automatic rejection for participation in Google Summer of Code 2013.** ===
===  What is the URL for your Ideas list? **This is the most important part of your proposal. Please make sure we can access it and it is complete when you submit this proposal. “Placeholder” or inaccessible ideas pages will be grounds for an automatic rejection for participation in Google Summer of Code 2014.** ===
* [http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/GSoC%20Ideas http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/GSoC Ideas]
* [http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/GSoC%20Ideas http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/GSoC Ideas]


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