User:Rob Linden/Google SOC Application 2008

See MISC-993 for the discussion of this application

1. What is your Organization's Name?
   • Linden Lab
2. What is your Organization's Homepage?
   • http://lindenlab.com
3. Describe your organization.
   • Linden Lab is a privately-held software company founded in 1999 to create Second Life, a world where individuals jointly inhabit a 3D landscape and build the world around them. Second Life has a rapidly growing population of Residents from around the globe, who are creating and inhabiting a virtual world of their own design. Since opening to the public in 2003, it has grown explosively and today is inhabited by millions of Residents from around the globe. In January 2007, Linden Lab made the Second Life viewer source code available under the GPL, enabling developers to download the Second Life end user software and make modifications and additions to the code. Since that time, alternate implementations of the simulator (server) code have been created, and a working group has been formed to codify and eventually standardize the client-server protocol (the Second Life Grid Architecture Working Group)
4. Why is your organization applying to participate in GSoC 2008? What do you hope to gain by participating?
   • We would like to strengthen our ties to other open source projects, and improve the viewer in ways not specifically tied to Linden Lab's short term needs. The infusion of new ideas from participants not on the Linden Lab payroll will help take the Second Life viewer in new and interesting directions that we might not have considered otherwise.
5. Did your organization participate in previous GSoC years? If so, please summarize your involvement and the successes and failures of your student projects. (optional)
   • No, we haven't participated in past years.
6. If your organization has not previously participated in GSoC, have you applied in the past? If so, for what year(s)? (optional)
   • No, we haven't applied in past years.
7. What license does your project use?
   • GPLv2, with FLOSS exception. Details: http://secondlifegrid.net/programs/open_source/licensing
8. URL for your ideas page
   • TBD
9. What is the main development mailing list for your organization?
   • SLDev
10. Where is the main IRC channel for your organization?
    • irc.efnet.org #opensl
11. Does your organization have an application template you would like to see students use? If so, please provide it now. (optional)
    • No template
12. Who will be your backup organization administrator? Please enter their Google Account address. We will email them to confirm, your organization will not become active until they respond. (optional)
    • Liana

About Your Mentors

1. What criteria did you use to select these individuals as mentors? Please be as specific as possible.
2. Who will your mentors be? Please enter their Google Account address separated by commas. If your organization is accepted we will email each mentor to invite them to take part. (optional)

1. What is your plan for dealing with disappearing students?
2. What is your plan for dealing with disappearing mentors?
3. What steps will you take to encourage students to interact with your project's community before, during and after the program?
4. What will you do to ensure that your accepted students stick with the project after GSoC concludes?

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