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--- gsocprojectapplication [2010/03/12 17:49] – glaubitz
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-The channel is hosted on the FOSS IRC network FreeNode and the main people involved in the project are always logged in. People asking for help or wanting to discuss can join the channel at any time but are advised that might take up to a few hours until a reply is received since we cannot be sitting in front of the computer all the time. However, during daytime in Europe, that is between 9 CET until well late into the night, chances are very high that at least someone from the project people will be around to happily answer all questions.
+The channel is hosted on the FOSS IRC network FreeNode and the main people involved in the project are always logged on. People asking for help or wanting to discuss can join the channel at any time but are advised that might take up to a few hours until a reply is received since we cannot be sitting in front of the computer all the time. However, during daytime in Europe, that is between 9 CET in the morning until well late into the night, chances are very high that at least someone from the project people will be around to happily answer all questions.
 ===== Does your organization have an application template you would like to see students use? If so, please provide it now. Please note that it is a very good idea to ask students to provide you with their contact information as part of your template. Their contact details will not be shared with you automatically via the GSoC 2010 site. =====
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 ===== What is your plan for dealing with disappearing mentors? =====
-This will definitely not happen as our project is very small and all people involved do their job with a lot of enthusiasm and eager. I don't think it is probable that anyone being a mentor from our side would disappear. Myself being the project founder know all the other main contributors of our project personally and I can surely say that would never just disappear.
+This will definitely not happen as our project is rather new and all people involved do their job with a lot of enthusiasm and eager. I don't think it is probable that anyone being a mentor from our side would disappear. Myself being the project founder know all the other main contributors of our project personally and I can say for sure that they would never just disappear.
 ===== What steps will you take to encourage students to interact with your project's community before, during and after the program? =====
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 We will do the same as we would do to encourage students to interact, that is what we answered in the previous question. Students can easily become an equal member in the project and make decisions, receive parts of the donations and claim credits. Also, we do not insist that students stick to our project since we keep things relaxed and open and do not want to put any pressure on our contributors. All we want is both contributors and end users enjoy the project and free software and the possibility to contribute to the MiniDisc community.
+===== If you are a small or new organization applying to GSoC, please list a larger, established GSoC organization or a Googler that can vouch for you here =====
+Both ffmpeg and the VideoLAN project support our efforts as our software allows to transfer ATRAC audio files which can be
+played back with ffmpeg and VideoLAN's VLC media player.
+===== If you are a large organization who is vouching for a small organization applying to GSoC for their first time this year, please list their name and why you think they'd be good candidates for GSoC here =====
+(not applicable)
+From the ffmpeg homepage (www.ffmpeg.org):
+"In 1992 Sony introduced the first Minidisc player. 17 years later it is now possible to transfer and play back the raw ATRAC
+data from the actual digital disc with the help of FFmpeg, tools developed by the Linux Minidisc project and official hardware
+(MZ-RH1). So if you have lots of digital recordings stored on Minidisc now is the time to archive it all."
+VideoLAN is also planning to work on improvements for the ATRAC support in VLC/libavcodec which will nicely complement our
+software. In fact, we are currently cooperating with VideoLAN in order to help them improve VLC's ATRAC support during GSoC.
 ===== Is there anything else you would like to tell the Google Summer of Code program administration team? : =====