Ready… set…

As the coding phase of GSOC approaches, a frantic wave of tasks and University projects has taken over my life. There’s a lot of work to do, and not a whole lot of time to do it (4 days for 4 projects). I am terrified of May and June, but I think that I’ll manage. After that, I’ll be able to dedicate as much time as I want (not just as much as I promised).

Meanwhile, I have updated the planning of the project, with an improved schedule to incorporate some of the changes that were necessary. As an exercise in transparency and pushing oneself, the full schedule will be openly available on Trello, for anyone interested to follow. Of course, one can also follow the commit history in my fork of ScummVM – it’s up to the reader.

For now, I leave you with a snapshot of the milestones of the project:

[Edit: Unfortunately, it looks like the screenshot is lost. ~Lothar (rootfather)]

So… I got into GSoC 2016

… and I still cannot believe it.

Google Summer of Code is an inititative by Google to join Open Source organizations, and CS students, so that new talent can get a taste of a professional working environment, while developing some (hopefully) valuable project for the organizations.

I applied for the program this year, inspired by my friend and C++ savant Manu Sánchez, and I got in 🙂