Worldforge taking part in Google Summer of Code 2014

Once again Worldforge has had the good fortune to be selected as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2014!

This is an awesome opportunity for students to both get more involved in the project as well as get a sweet gig for the summer. If you’re a student reading this, waste no time getting over to the GSoC site and read up on how all of this works. Then swing by the Worldforge wiki to read up on how this all works specific to Worldforge. Don’t hesitate to contact us through our various channels.

As previously we’re also acting as an umbrella organization for our friends in the Ryzom and CEGUI projects.


Here is a video showing off student work from previous year, to perhaps serve as an inspiration.

Google Summer of Code 2013 report: Samuel Kogler

The Google Summer of Code 2013 is now complete. Samuel Kogler worked during the summer on improving the terrain rendering component in Ember.
We've previously used a component called the PagedLandscapeSceneManager2 for our terrain rendering. This component however is both unmaintained and has some design deficiencies which makes it ultimately unsuitable for what we want to achieve with the worlds in Worldforge. Samuel's task over the summer has been to bring the newer and more flexible Ogre Terrain Component into Ember.
Apart from the work he's been doing on Ember he's also submitted many changes to Ogre, both to core Ogre functionality and to the aforementioned Terrain Component.
We're very pleased with the work he's done, as well as having to work alongside with him. It's been an absolute joy to see his progress.
Below is his own presentation of the work he's done.
As he's based his work on the not yet released Ogre 1.9 branch we haven't yet merged his code into Ember master; as soon as Ogre 1.9 is released we'll commence that work. Until then his code can be seen over at his Github fork.

Worldforge in Google Summer of Code 2011

Worldforge has been accepted into Google Summer of Code 2011!

We've had a remarkable experience with the program from before and are very excited about this opportunity. If you're a student which are interested in working on a cool Worldforge project during the summer, don't hesitate to visit our GSoC page. The sooner you start getting involved in the project the better, so don't be shy about making yourself heard on the mailing lists or irc.

GSoC student applications are now open

Google has now opened the student applications for Google Summer of Code 2010.
This year, in order to help you figure out if you have the skills needed to work on Ember, and in order to help us to filter out non-serious applications, we ask students who are applying for ember to find and fix two errors in this special code drop. Also see the Ember prerequisites on this.
We encourage students to apply as soon as possible, so that there's time for us to give feedback and work out the details. The sooner the better.
If you have any questions please use the general mailing list.