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= Part 1 - Application Form =
= Part 1 - Application Form =
=== Why does your org want to participate in Google Summer of Code? (1000 characters) ===
=== Why does your org want to participate in Google Summer of Code? (1000 characters) ===
Every year from 2007 to 2015, the program gave us the opportunity to have talented and motivated students working with us.  
Every year from 2007 to 2014, the program has given us the opportunity to have talented and motivated students working with us.


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" or which were specifically prepared for students (like full new engines ports). But also, some students have come up with a new functionality, proposing and finally implementing it. These have been our favorites.
We are particularly enthusiastic to participate this year as we are broadening our scope to include RPG games for the very first time, which brings with it a whole new group of potentially interested developers, students and users, and the opportunity to relive a new genre of classic games.


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.  
What we hope to gain is valuable code contributions, and new developers for the project. In previous years, we've had students take up and complete tasks which were on our Ideas page, including for example full new engines ports. But also, some students have come up with new functionality, proposing and finally implementing it. These have been our favorites.


We didn't manage to convince you last year, and therefore didn't benefit the great contributions of GSoC students. Hopefully this year will be our best GSoC ever!
A number of students have stayed involved after the summer to become full team members and continue working on their projects, and we hope to make this happen this year as well.


=== How many potential mentors do you have for this year's program? ===
=== How many potential mentors do you have for this year's program? ===
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Then, we want our mentors to have the following qualities:
Then, we want our mentors to have the following qualities:
* Be volunteer and be able to commit to participating for the entire duration of the program. They have to be available to their students and the mentor team.
* Be a volunteer and be able to commit to participating for the entire duration of the program. They have to be available to their students and the mentor team.
* Have a considerable track record hacking on ScummVM or ResidualVM. They can help the students more effectively and in an immediate fashion this way.
* Have a considerable track record hacking on ScummVM or ResidualVM. They can help the students more effectively and in an immediate fashion this way.
* Have the patience and skills to explain to their respective students how to tackle their tasks. Also, to be able to help the students out when they are in sticky situations.
* Have the patience and skills to explain to their respective students how to tackle their tasks. Also, to be able to help the students out when they are in sticky situations.
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=== How will you help your students stay on schedule to complete their projects? ===
=== How will you help your students stay on schedule to complete their projects? ===
<span style="color:red">We ask our student to give regular feedback to their mentors, at least once every 2 days. We also ask them to blog at least once a week about their progress.</span>
<span style="color:red">We ask our student to give regular feedback to their mentors, at least once every 2 days. We also ask them to blog at least once a week about their progress.</span>
<span style="color:red">We also strongly encourage the students to ask questions on our IRC channel. As a pragmatic fact, on IRC any student will be able to get support literally 24/7, as our developers are scattered all over the globe.</span>
<span style="color:red">We also strongly encourage the students to ask questions on our IRC channel. As an empirical fact, on IRC any student will be able to get support literally 24/7, as our developers are scattered all over the globe.</span>


<span style="color:red">With those rules in place, it's very easy for the mentors to detect any difficulty a student may experience, and help them to fix it or work around it.</span>
<span style="color:red">With those rules in place, it's very easy for the mentors to detect any difficulty a student may experience, and help them to fix it or work around it.</span>


<span style="color:red">In parallel, the mentors regularly check if the plannings are achievable and realistic. If the student is ahead of schedule, some extra work may be discussed. At the opposite, if the student is behind schedule, discussions will occur very early between the mentors and then with the student to define what can be put in place so that the student complete its projects nevertheless.</span>
<span style="color:red">In parallel, the mentors regularly check if the plans are achievable and realistic. If the student is ahead of schedule, some extra work may be discussed. At the opposite, if the student is behind schedule, discussions will occur very early among the mentors and then with the student to define what can be put in place so that the student completes the projects nevertheless.</span>


=== How will you get your students involved in your community during GSoC? ===
=== How will you get your students involved in your community during GSoC? ===
<span style="color:red">Before and during GSoC, we'll consider students as special developers, but developers nonetheless.
<span style="color:red">Before and during GSoC, we'll consider students as special developers, but developers nonetheless.
They will therefore have equivalent rights, privileges and duties. For instance,
They will therefore have equivalent rights, privileges and duties. For instance,
- We first ask our students to write introductory letters to our development list and their blog so everyone will have a sensible background about them, their skills and their assigned task.
- We first ask our students to write introductory letters to our development list and their blog so everyone is familiar with their background, skills and assigned task.
- We created several documentation in order to help the students to familiarize with the projects, particularly 'Developer Central' and our wiki.
- We created documentation in order to help the students to familiarize themselves with the project, particularly 'Developer Central' and our wiki.
- They are encouraged to take part in discussions, whatever the means these discussions occur.
- They are encouraged to take part in discussions, whatever the medium on which these discussions occur.
- They will be able to get support from the team literally 24/7 on our IRC channels, as our developers are scattered all over the globe. They are voiced (+v) so that everybody knows who they are.
- They will be able to get support from and chat with the team 24/7 on our IRC channels. They are voiced (+v) so that everybody knows who they are.
- We noticed during our previous participations that merging the student code early make them feel more involved, so we plan to do it again this year.</span>
- We noticed during previous summers that merging the student code early make them feel more involved, so we plan to do it again this year.</span>


=== How will you keep students involved with your community after GSoC? ===
=== How will you keep students involved with your community after GSoC? ===
<span style="color:red">In our last two participations, we decided to require the GSoC student code to be merged into our Master tree much earlier in the process, if possible. Our past experience was telling us it should be very motivating for students to directly interact with our main repository and that this could potentially make some of them stay after the end of GSoC: it seems we were right as several former students kept contributing more than a year after our last participation. This is obviously for us a very positive sign and we plan to proceed in the same way this year again.</span>
<span style="color:red">The latest two times we participated, we decided to require the GSoC student code to be merged into our Master tree much earlier in the process if possible. Our past experience told us it should be very motivating for students to directly interact with our main repository and that this could potentially make some of them stay after the end of GSoC: it seems we were right as several former students have kept contributing for more than a year afterwards. This is obviously a very positive sign for us and we plan to proceed in the same way this year again.</span>


=== Has your org been accepted as a mentoring org in Google Summer of Code before? ===
=== Has your org been accepted as a mentoring org in Google Summer of Code before? ===
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- ResidualVM is a cross-platform 3D game interpreter which allows you to play some 3D adventure games, such as Cyan's Myst 3 and LucasArts' Lua-based 3D adventures: Grim Fandango and Escape from Monkey Island, provided you already have their data files. Like ScummVM, ResidualVM replaces the executables shipped with the games, allowing you to play them on systems for which they were never designed.
- ResidualVM is a cross-platform 3D game interpreter which allows you to play some 3D adventure games, such as Cyan's Myst 3 and LucasArts' Lua-based 3D adventures: Grim Fandango and Escape from Monkey Island, provided you already have their data files. Like ScummVM, ResidualVM replaces the executables shipped with the games, allowing you to play them on systems for which they were never designed.


- This year, we will also accept that students propose a task for RPG games, in the scope of our soon to be announced sister project RogueVM, also based on ScummVM OSystem framework.
- This year, we will also accept that students propose a task for RPG games, in the scope of our soon to be announced sister project RogueVM, also based on the ScummVM OSystem framework.


=== Application Instructions (1500 char) ===
=== Application Instructions (1500 char) ===
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