[Scummvm-devel] GSoC application

[Arnaud Boutonné]

To answer to Tobia's remarks

2 years ago, we decided to make for the first time a proposal for
ResidualVM, with ScummVM vouching their application. Google failed
ResidualVM's proposal, and asked us to turn ScummVM into a GSoC umbrella
and take them on our side. We did that, and it worked really well.

Last year, at Fosdem, I talked to Googlers who said it was the good way to
proceed and ... we were failed nevertheless, but our application and
structure wasn't pointed as a reason of this failure.

This year, we talked again to Googlers at Fosdem, and they encouraged us to
keep working in the same direction, and to be ambitious in order to be
outstanding.
What we are proposing this year is a wider umbrella (with a small growth,
under control), which is something that Google encourages. We are also
proposing a coherent growth, involving some team members.
And finally we could be proposing to students nothing less than being at
the origin of something different, which could be helpful to keep them in
the community afterwards.

All in all, with that approach, I think this would increase our chances to
be accepted.

Best regards,
Arnaud




On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 1:31 AM, D G Turner <d.g.turner at ntlworld.com> wrote:

> Miguel,
>   Thanks for the point, but there is significant overlap between the
>   ScummVM and GemRB developers, including wjp who raised this
>   question so we are aware of it and would mainly be talking to
>   ourselves :)
>
>   GemRB is intended to reimplement the Bioware Infinity Engine and
>   thus is not really applicable to other RPGs which have vastly
>   differing internal engine designs.
>
>   While it is possible that the GemRB could be integrated in future
>   as an engine within RogueVM / ScummVM, this doesn't really have any
>   bearing on the current point at hand.
> Thanks,
> David Turner
>
> P.S. A general +1 from me to merging the RogueVM and other RPG engines
>      into ScummVM.
>
> On 17/02/16 23:47, Miguel de Dios Matias wrote:
> > Don't reinvent the wheel.
> >
> > There is a engine reimplementation of popular RPGs such as Baldurs
> > Gate I and II. It is a mature project but it is growing slow.
> >
> > https://github.com/gemrb/gemrb
> >
> > is not it better a meeting with the people of GemRB for to merge into
> ScummVM?
> >
> > Regards.
>
>
>
>
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