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 ===== Why is your organization applying to participate in GSoC 2010? What do you hope to gain by participating? =====
-We are participating in GSoC for the first time. We have read about GSoC in the past, however our project had not yet made the progress in the past that would justify to ask external programmers to join. Especially, because we didn't know whether any of our efforts would actually yield any
+We are applying in GSoC for the second time, last year when we applied for the first time our project was not accepted. We
-working implementation due to the high amount of clean-room reverse-engineering that was required to understand the original, proprietary software. We have now, however, enough understanding and written documentation so that a lot of things are already there but just need to be implemented.
+have
-We hope, that with the help of GSoC 2010, we will find one or two very talented programmers which will help us to implement the next milestones for our free MiniDisc software so that we might get the software ready to get into the next release of the major Linux distributions like Ubuntu or
+read about GSoC in the past, however our project had not yet made the progress in the past that would justify to ask
-Fedora. We have already set up a PPA (personal package archive) for Ubuntu and we also looking to get the software into Debian (via Debian Mentors) to spread the software to the benefit of all MiniDisc users which want to use Linux (or any other free operating system) and finally dump Windows. We will welcome *any* contributions but we hope that the applicants will help us to implement the next big milestones which we think can be done within the given period of time of GSoC 2010. To support the programmers with the help, we will be happy to send him or her Sony MZ-RH1 HiMD-Walkman for free loan together with some MiniDiscs so that he or she can test his or her code with real hardware. However, most of the stuff can also be tested without having to have the actual real hardware with the help of disk-images of real HiMD disks mounted as a loopback devices.
+external
+programmers to join. Especially, because we didn't know whether any of our efforts would actually yield any working
+implementation due to the high amount of clean-room reverse-engineering that was required to understand the original,
+proprietary software. We have now, however, enough understanding and written documentation so that a lot of things are
+already
+there but just need to be implemented. We hope, that with the help of GSoC 2011, we will find one or two very talented
+programmers which will help us to implement the next milestones for our free MiniDisc software so that we might get the
+software
+ready to get into the next release of the major Linux distributions like Ubuntu or Fedora. We have already set up a PPA
+(personal
+package archive) for Ubuntu and we also looking to get the software into Debian (via Debian Mentors) to spread the software
+to the
+benefit of all MiniDisc users which want to use Linux (or any other free operating system) and finally dump Windows. We will
+welcome *any* contributions but we hope that the applicants will help us to implement the next big milestones which we
+think can
+be done within the given period of time of GSoC 2011. To support the programmers with the help, we will be happy to send
+him or
+her Sony MZ-RH1 HiMD-Walkman for free loan together with some MiniDiscs so that he or she can test his or her code with
+real
+hardware. However, most of the stuff can also be tested without having to have the actual real hardware with the help of
+disk-
+images of real HiMD disks mounted as a loopback devices.
 ===== 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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 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? : =====