Xiph.org/Annodex.net seeking Summer of Code students

Google has started accepting applications for Summer of Code 2009. We are encouraging folks to check out the Wikimedia and Xiph/Annodex organizations. This year, in addition to participating under those organizations, I am helping out in organizing the Xiph/Annodex summer of code participation. We are trying to get the word out to get as many high quality applicants as possible. If you walk in technical, academic and open media circles please help circulate our call for submissions:

Xiph.org/Annodex.net seeking Summer of Code student
applications!

2009 is an important year for free codecs: Ogg Vorbis on every Android device, Ogg Theora support in development for Mozilla Firefox 3.5, and expanded Ogg hosting by the Internet Archive and Wikimedia. Xiph.org and Annodex.net, who develop free codecs (Ogg Vorbis, Theora, Dirac, Speex, CELT, FLAC) and web video support for them, have been selected as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2009.

We are actively seeking student projects for Summer of Code. A list of project suggestions is at:
http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/Summer_of_Code_2009

Students should feel free to select one of these, develop a variation, or propose their own ideas! Some examples:

• Develop a conference bridge or reference SIP client for CELT, the
  new, ultra-low delay audio codec that bridges the gap between Vorbis
  and Speex for applications where both high quality audio and low delay
  are desired. If you enjoy hacking on networks, you’ll have fun with
  these CELT projects.
• Develop components to support all Ogg codecs for OpenMAX IL, the
  media plugins used in Maemo, Android and LIMO mobile devices. This
  touches on many interesting projects, and is perfect for anyone with
  an interest in mobile and embedded systems who wants a broad
  introduction to multimedia codecs.
• Write a JavaScript Library for Subtitles, Captions and other
  time-aligned text. The main focus of this project is around enabling
  video accessibility for Ogg in Firefox. The project requires a student
  with experience in JavaScript development, HTML and CSS, but also with
  some understanding of C for liboggplay and libkate, and of C++ for
  Firefox.
• Make a Proof of Concept for HTML5 Ogg Video support in the
  Chromium Browser, using liboggplay (our Ogg Theora playback library,
  as used in Mozilla Firefox). Full support for HTML5 <video> is a
  lot of work, but let’s get the ball rolling with a proof of concept
  for Theora frame decoding and rendering.
• Add support for import and export of XSPF playlists to Songbird,
  the Mozilla-powered open music player. This project requires good XML
  foo, the opportunity to work with cross-platform XUL and JavaScript,
  and perhaps some C++.

Submissions

The student application period starts on Monday (March 23):
http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/program/google/gsoc2009/timeline
and runs for a little under 2 weeks, until Friday April 3.

Details of our application process are at:
http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/Summer_of_Code_Applications

Interested students *must* get involved with the project development
community, on project mailing lists and IRC, before the application
deadline. When selecting projects, preference will be given to
students who have submitted at least one patch to a Xiph.org or
Annodex.net project before the application deadline.

Students will receive a grant from Google for successful work on their
GSoC projects. Hacking on free multimedia projects is fun and can have
a big impact. We need students who love to hack, to help put support
for free codecs into more applications, browsers and networks.

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Summer of Code 08

Google Summer of Code 08 will start accepting applications Monday, March 24, 2008. I have submitted a few metavid related project ideas under the xiph and wikipedia foundation organizations and offered to mentor them.

Google’s Summer of Code is a great program, as a student in summer of code 06 I worked on early video integration for mediaWiki. It was a positive experience and got me more involved with free/open source software. If your a student interested in open media I recommend you take a look at the many great project ideas for xiph foundation. There are lots of other great projects and organizations to work with as well.

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wikimania 2006

I will be presenting the work I have done on video support for mediaWiki at wikimania. There are a wide range of presentations that look very interesting. Check out the program

I will try and do some live blooging while there

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MediaWiki - Summer of Code

One of metaivds participants (dale) has been accepted into summer of code. I will be working on the video components of mediaWiki. Initially work will be focused on integrating ogg theora video plugin support into the mediaWiki framework. After which I will be working on integrating dynamic segmentation reference and templating streams so that close captions can be written in a variety of languages and annotated with relevant references. I will have a write up that explains these features in greater detail shortly For now check out my early post having to do with mediaWiki integration.

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mediaWiki integration

we have installed the mediaWiki wiki software. (The same software that runs wikipedia) We have started to look at ways to integrate the metavid base capture data into a wiki environment. Here is a sample page outputted from the metavid application. I still have to write some mediaWiki extensions to handle externally hosted images and perhaps figure out a ways to structure this data with either with templates or more extensions that makes the metadata accessible. Also I will add in cross links to the person information.

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