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= Why is your group applying to participate? What do you hope to gain by participating = | = Why is your group applying to participate? What do you hope to gain by participating = | ||
− | Our primary intention for participating in GSoC 2009 is to attract new developers. We already have visibility, popularity, familiarity, and a very active community. The strongest factor in our long-term development initiatives, however, is the number of active developers that we have at any given time. | + | Our primary intention for participating in GSoC 2009 is to hopefully attract new developers. We already have visibility, popularity, familiarity, and a very active community. The strongest factor in our long-term development initiatives, however, is the number of active developers that we have at any given time. |
GSoC has shown to provide an exceptional opportunity for us to entice new developers to our community and keep them working with us over the long term. It's been a great program for attracting new talent, inspiring new development initiatives, and even for getting our existing developers more organized and collaborating more effectively. | GSoC has shown to provide an exceptional opportunity for us to entice new developers to our community and keep them working with us over the long term. It's been a great program for attracting new talent, inspiring new development initiatives, and even for getting our existing developers more organized and collaborating more effectively. | ||
− | We've enjoyed collaborating on experimental efforts that have had strong academic and research goals, while helping promote and improve BZFlag in the process. BZFlag is used by several universities (e.g., Brigham-Young University) as an artificial intelligence framework and has also been the subject of several academic research projects related to network communications (ACM-published research papers). Indiana University | + | We've enjoyed collaborating on experimental efforts that have had strong academic and research goals, while helping promote and improve BZFlag in the process. BZFlag is used by several universities (e.g., Brigham-Young University) as an artificial intelligence framework and has also been the subject of several academic research projects related to network communications (ACM-published research papers). Just this past year, Indiana University worked with our staff to use BZFlag as a platform for conducting a social network analysis. We'd particularly like to improve these facilities to help encourage even wider use of BZFlag for academic and research purposes. |
− | Task-wise, we hope to work with these new developers to implement several enhancements to BZFlag that we know will have a big impact on those that play the game. | + | Task-wise, we hope to work with these new developers to implement several enhancements to BZFlag that we know will have a big impact on those that play the game. We discovered last year that participating in GSoC stimulates our project development activities and forces us to become more organized, collaborative, and deliberate in our focus. Our community is simply filled with great ideas on how to improve the game in wide impacting ways and we would like to encourage these developments. GSoC provides a mutually beneficial means to that end, particularly for students that we can attract to our project as new developers that stay with the project. |
= What criteria do you use to select the members of your group? Please be as specific as possible. = | = What criteria do you use to select the members of your group? Please be as specific as possible. = |