Participating in the Google Summer of Code

[jvoisin]

The Google Summer of Code is basically Google throwing money at students to contribute to open-source projects during their Summer holidays. Many open-source projects have already been a part of that event in the past, incl. 0 A.D. which is another game engine.

@jvoisin is willing to handle the administrative/organizational part, but we'll need contributors to mentor the students.

Suggestions for topics/projects:

- vanilla water shader (#4661)
- gamepad GUI and QoL (#3740)
- soft shadows (#4852)
- inverse kinematics (#5503)
- extended asset support (Oblivion/Skyrim)
- OpenMW-CS stuff…

General thoughts? Are we ok participating? Additional topics/idas? Anyone volunteering for the job of a mentor? Please, go ahead!

[lysol]

This has been suggested a great number of times before, but the issue has always been whether we have people able to mentor or not. If we do, then this would of course be a great thing to participate in imo.