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Summer of Code students announced

erik — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:26:18 +0000

The selection period for the Google Summer of Code is now complete and we’re happy to announce the four students who will be working on Worldforge during the summer. Just like the last two years we had a good collection of really excellent applications and we want to thank all students who applied.

The four student projects are:

Manohar Vanga: Multi-Server Linking in Cyphesis
Joshua Roesslein: Wombat 3D Model Preview Generator
Tiberiu Paunescu: Worldforge GUI Improvements
Dzmitry Kamiahin: Convert Object Viewer to be Qt-based

Dzimitry will actually be contributing to the NeL project, as we’ve this year agreed to mentor them on mentoring.

More information can be found at the GSoC site.

DNS troubles for worldforge.org [update]

kai — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 14:34:55 +0000

Hi folks,

it seems like we have sort of a brown-out for worldforge.org dns lookups. Our name servers are still giving out the correct IP addresses, but for some reason many providers’ DNS servers seem to have forgotten they need to contact our DNS servers to resolve worldforge.org addresses.

While the worldforge.org domain is down, I’ve moved the wiki to http://wiki.worldforge.de and the git server to git.worldforge.de.

We’re working on sorting this out, sorry for the inconvenience.
Kai

WorldForge accepted into Google Summer of Code 2010

kai — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:07:58 +0000

Just like in the previous two years, Google has decided to accept WorldForge into the Google Summer of Code. Interested students can spend their summer break flipping code not burgers at WorldForge. See our project proposals page for some ideas of what you could work on. If you have your own idea, don’t hesitate to come to the WorldForge general mailinglist to discuss your idea.

While student applications won’t open until March 29th (see the GSoC timeline), the sooner you contact us, the better.

We’re looking forward to your project proposals.

Google Summer of Code 2009 is on

kai — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:57:05 +0000

WorldForge has been accepted as a mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code 2009.

If you are a student interested in participating, see our project ideas list, visit us in the #lounge channel on irc.worldforge.org, say hello on the general mailing list or post on the WorldForge forum. We are looking forward to hearing from you.

WOMBAT 0.1.1 released.

kai — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 13:08:14 +0000

Thanks to Thomas Ingham aka. magnethead, WOMBAT now uses CSS instead of tables for layout elements. While he was at it, Tom also revamped the colour scheme.
This got me to work on some user interface issues myself, getting you a new WOMBAT look as well as improved navigation.

As always, check out the live demo.

WOMBAT 0.1.0 released.

kai — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:42:54 +0000

I’m happy to announce the first alpha release of WOMBAT.

WOMBAT provides a nicer web frontend to the WorldForge media repository.
The 0.1.0 release provides the basic functionality of browsing the media repository:

A directory view listing subdirectories and files in the shown directory
A file view showing detailed information about the file and a file preview
A search function that will search for file/directory names.

Let me encourage you to check out the WOMBAT live demo.

I would like to close with mentioning to all the artists out there that WOMBAT is still in need of a logo. I track this and other things on the
WOMBAT Launchpad page. This is also the place to file bugs.

WOMBAT 0.0.4 released.

kai — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:12:12 +0000

WOMBAT 0.0.4 has been released today.

Changes to version 0.0.3 include

Files are now grouped by type in the directory view
The file view has preview for text, image and sound files

As always, my home box runs a demo site.

WOMBAT 0.0.3 released.

kai — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:53:54 +0000

Probably the last release of the current sprint, I’m glad to announce WOMBAT 0.0.3.
Changes to 0.0.2:

Only scan media repository once
Show “Latest Additions”

As before, my home box has a demo.

WOMBAT 0.0.1 released.

kai — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:48:57 +0000

The WorldForge team is proud to present the first release of WOMBAT, the WorldForge Open Media Browser/Archive Tool.

WOMBAT aims to improve the user experience browsing our media repository by providing a nice web front-end and, in later versions, search (and maybe even upload) features.

As you can tell from the version number, WOMBAT is still very fresh code, and there’s no finished package out there yet. WOMBAT source code is available in git at git://git.worldforge.org/wombat.git, bugs are tracked in Launchpad. Our wiki hosts the WOMBAT homepage.

If you’re interested in a demo, see the one at Kai’s home box.

Summer of Code 2008 students announced

erik — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:02:00 +0000

The final students for the Google Summer of Code 2008 have been announced. We were really pleased with all of the applications we got and had a really hard time selecting the top three to fill our three slots. The three lucky ones are:

Student: Alexey Torkhov
Mentor: Erik Hjortsberg
Project: Implement advanced entity creator in Ember client

Student: Tamas Bates
Mentor: Kai Blin
Project: Terrain Modifiers

Student: Rômulo Fernandes Machado Leitão
Mentor: Erik Hjortsberg
Project: Implement a sound manager to allow Ember to have sounds

We’re confident that this summer will bring very good things to the whole project, and we’re really looking forward to working with the students! The coming month will allow them to get better orientated within both the project, the code and the community until May 26 when coding officially starts.