SoC 2008 Rules

Those rules are mostly for x264 and VLC.

Those rules are quite flexible for any situation.

Students rules

Summer

If you are a student, we expect that:

• You don't have a full-time job during your summer if you are doing SoC at the same time
• You are of good will to work with VideoLAN projects.

If you are a mentor, we expect that:

• You are willing to work with one student.

Selection

To be selected, students will have to:

• Show on IRC
• Join the mailing lists (x264-devel or vlc-devel, according to your project),
• Select an idea,
• Say hello to your potential mentor and admin

• Learn about the code you should modify (where in the source, what is the idea...),
• Be able to compile a VLC for your platform (for VLC development) and learn how to use Git.

• Complete the Google admission and give a planning idea.

During the summer

Student expectations

• Student explain your planning to mentor and admin (not everyone has the same vacations)
• Student should report a small mail once a week to both mentor and admin during the time agreed (failure to do that will fail the application )
• Student should commit one your personal git branch once a week (except first week of your schedule)

Explaining why you can't work one week is fine. Disappearing without notice is not.

• Update wiki status page.

Student rights

• Ask questions and stupid questions to anyone
• Bother the mentor with questions
• Ask the admin for another mentor if the mentor doesn't answer or doesn't answer adequately.

Students will be considered as full-right developers.