SoC August 2008

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Mentors and students: please prepare to submit your final evaluations
by Giovanni Corriga 27 Aug '08

27 Aug '08

Hi all, as you can see from the attached email, you'll have to send the final evaluations by next Monday, September 1st. FAILURE TO SUBMIT THE FINAL EVALUATIONS MEANS THE STUDENT WON'T GET THE LAST PAYMENT. Ciao, Giovanni

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GSoC - ESUG Presentation ?
by cdrick 25 Aug '08

25 Aug '08

Hi, I just wanted to know if there's something to present at ESUG. I know some will present their work, but do we all need to prepare something and, if yes, for how long ? Thanks Cédrick

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GSoC report - final week
by Giovanni Corriga 19 Aug '08

19 Aug '08

Hi Students, Today is the last of the coding phase of this 2008 edition of the Google Summer of Code. Please take two minutes to reply to this single question: 1) What did you do last week? Also, the final evaluation period will begin today. At this link http://groups.google.com/group/google-summer-of-code-announce/web/final-sur… you'll find all the required information. Giovanni

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Re: GSoC report - final week
by Phua Khai Fong 19 Aug '08

19 Aug '08

Hi, The latest work done since week 10:- * Solids are now buffered for smoother rendering * Face selection enabled for marker insertion * Wireframe and solid view now available * The size of the tree is now fixed at 20% of the total world width and the height is fixed to below the menu bar right down to the bottom of the world morph. * The size of the tree changes and keeps its aspect when the world morph is resized. * A lot of empty tree node errors fixed. If you find any, please let me know. * Right-click on tree nodes to show pop-up menu added (only for MyRectangle and MyCircle). * Fixed error of collapsing on empty collection when a child node is still selected. * The avatar now moves smoothly using the keyboard controls (w,a,s,d…etc) without needing to wait for the OS key repeat to happen. * Going forward with ‘w’ key will no longer have avatar blocking your view in first person mode. * More than 1 key can be pressed now for diagonal movement e.g. w+d . * Holding shift key when clicking and dragging on a cube will allow the user to move around the cube in a circular motion for full body view. * Input field on windows now accept changes and stores the value when text is modified. Previously, the user had to hit enter or tab before the value is accepted. * Markers have pop-up menu to adjust position of itself and of the part it is sitting on * Extruded shapes are now glued to parts i.e. moving the shapes move the part frame * Markers are added into the tree menu and will be displayed appropriately Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Re: [GSoC Project] Time to thank you :)
by Klaus D. Witzel 17 Aug '08

17 Aug '08

Hello Narsenians :) Hello SoCers :) [ I put a small part of the correspondence below on OpenNARS list and on Squeak's SoC List (if that works) ] Thanks a *lot* for the project, for the fun we had, for the results and for working together on the future :) Now that OpenNARS can be operated with a web browser from a Seaside server, I believe that it will find ever more friends and users %0.5;0.9% ;) Cedrick I like your new page - http://nars.seasidehosting.st/ it looks like NARS and smells like NARS ;) How about a decent a page title, you certainly have already thought about it. Pei we are all happy you shared your outstanding knowledge and work with us in this project, thank you so much. I'm looking forward to future steps into the OpenNARS direction in a world with free software. Cheers, Klaus On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:12:43 +0200, Pei Wang wrote: > Cédrick, > > This project is a pleasant experience to me, and I'm glad that you > enjoyed it, too. I've updated the link to your website from Open-NARS > website. > > I really look forward to future cooperation with you, whatever the form > will be. > > Thanks Klaus for making all this happen! > > Cheers, > > Pei > > On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Cédrick wrote: >> Hi Klaus and Pei, >> >> I really want to thank you a lot for you attention and help during this >> project. >> ... >> It has been a really great experience for me and furthermore on several >> aspects (on squeak, on OOP, on NARS, on reasoning system, on >> uncertainty, >> etc...). I knew squeak but I needed experience and this is a good one. >> Also >> NARS intrigued me for its "simplicity", its well founded theories and so >> it's the first time I go deeper in reasonning systems (others reasoning >> systems like cyc seemed too "logic" to me ;) ). That's fun how life >> take you >> in some directions. All that started with a discussion with Klaus on >> floats >> that I was using to represent confidence degree (belief mass) for Smet's >> TBM. So more than just reasoning systems, it has given me another >> understanding of uncertainty expression and processing ... >> I think I would just have failed with another language. Some debugging >> sessions were just fun (these are haha moments where I was telling >> myself >> "I love Smalltalk" :) ). Some were longer (like finding where I didn't >> clone, or having a NAVaraible findSustitue bypassed by true instead of >> nil ;) etc... ) ... >> But yes, I'm happy with the result and this is rare :). Feel free to >> tell if you think some elements are missing. ... >> Of course the language is not all and >> the fact you both answer very promptly my questions helped me a lot and >> reassured me too :) >> >> So a really big THANKS to both of you :) >> >> Cheers and see you soon, >> >> Cédrick >>

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Students: GSOC Completion Essays
by Ken Causey 15 Aug '08

15 Aug '08

Squeak GSOC Students, Your projects are nearly over and final evaluations are coming up. I'm confident you have all done well and I look forward to examining your final projects. I would like to request something more from you once you have finalized your projects and completed any necessary paperwork for Google or your mentor. I would like for you to reflect back over the course of the project and pick 3 topics from the list below and for each one write up a short (approximately 500 words) essay for the blog. There is no rush on this, if you complete all three by the end of September I will be satisfied. I think the results of this could be helpful to all of us. It can help us mentors and administrators plan for future GSOCs; it can help you gather your thoughts on the work you have done and by writing it up it can help you formulate your ideas so they stick with you in the future; and these essays will continue to be available on the web and may be of use if you apply to GSOC in the future or to other activities. So, again, please pick 3 of the topics below and for each one post an approximately 500 word essay to the project blog. Topics: a. Summarize the final result of your project as if explaining it to someone who otherwise has no knowledge of your project. Think of this like an 'about' page if your project had it's own website. b. Talk about how your project went. Pick 2-3 things that went badly and talk about how you could have done them differently. Then pick 2-3 things that went very well and describe them, maybe reflecting on how this could be used in other projects or contexts, if relevant. c. Now that your project is completed, if you had to do it all over again, would you do it differently? Would you instead explore some other aspect or direction of the project? In contrast to b. focus on conceptual factors, rather than implementation details. d. Did using Smalltalk help you in implementing your project? Did it make it more difficult? e. Can more be done with your project in the future? Talk about some ideas for improvement or expansion or maybe another idea for which your project might just be a part. f. Do you have an idea for a cool project for a future Squeak GSOC? Tell us about it. g. Pick your own topic. For this one you can talk about anything you like as long as it is related to your Squeak GSOC project. Don't do this one more than once, also pick 2 of the other topics if you pick this one. Please feel free to ask questions if any of this is unclear. Thank you, Ken

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GSoC Report - week 8
by Giovanni Corriga 12 Aug '08

12 Aug '08

Hi students, my apologies for the delay and my thanks to Phua for getting the ball rolling. If you haven't done that already, please take five minutes to respond to these questions: 1) what did you do in the past week? 2) what do plan to do this week? 3) what can possibly stand in the way of your work? Ciao, Giovanni

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GSoC Report - week 11
by Giovanni Corriga 12 Aug '08

12 Aug '08

Hi students, The last week of the coding period of this Google Summer of Code 2008 has just started! Instead of replying immediately to the standard 3 questions, I'd like you to contact your mentor and agree on what to do in this final week. After you've done this, please send a note to the mailing list with what you've done last week and what you plan to do this week. This is meant for you to define a sort of "arrival" to mark the amount of work that will be used for your final evaluation. Obviously we'd like for you to continue your work even after that! Ciao, Giovanni Ciao, Giovanni

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[Fwd: Re: GSoC Report - week 8]
by Giovanni Corriga 09 Aug '08

09 Aug '08

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Re: [SoC] Re: GSoC Report - week 10
by Phua Khai Fong 06 Aug '08

06 Aug '08

1) What did you do in the past week? -Grid on sketch board is up -Joints are ready now for simulation to be added -Click and rotate around an object is ready(a bit more tweaking left) -Fixed lost of keyboard focus on world when clicked on tree menu -New buffered axis for smoother rendering and better look 2) What do plan to do this week? -Work with my mentor in adding simulation code Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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