apertus° is a community designing the architecture surrounding a number of free software and open hardware projects aimed at professional level digital imaging and film making related disciplines.
Useful links: https://wiki.apertus.org/index.php/Useful_Links (contains links to reading on the camera and its PCB structure)
Website: https://www.apertus.org/
If you'd like to explore the AXIOM camera's background and how the project got started see AXIOM Project Background
Note: Google haven't announced this year's GSoC participating organisations, but we do intend to participate in 2019. At this point, and if you're interested in working with us, it would be good to have a read through what last year's GSoC students worked on. We published a program wrap-up here
GSoC listing: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/5869357192708096/
Firstly, please read the Google Summer of Code Student Manual. It contains a lot of helpful information about the program and about participating as a student in Google Summer of Code: http://write.flossmanuals.net/gsocstudentguide/what-is-google-summer-of-code/
Secondly, please read the Google Summer of Code FAQ. It details specifics about deadlines and how things typically run: https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/faq
... The previous linked page also details the timeline of events which can be accessed here - https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline
apertus° was selected as a mentoring organisation in GSoC 2018. The related projects can be found on the wiki at - https://wiki.apertus.org/index.php/GSoC_Projects
Proposing your own idea to us will tickle our interest much more than helping us with existing tasks.
Our idea page revolves around the following projects:
GsoC Idea Page: https://lab.apertus.org/tag/google_summer_of_code_2018/
This year students need to show their coding skills as part of their application, each task has an associated coding challenge that needs to be handed together with the actual application that's being considered for GSoC. The tasks are challenging but give applicants a good chance to experience what the GSoC program will be like:
To get in touch with any mentor check the Mentor Contact List
Tim Videos has a very good guide for GSoC students - must read: https://code.timvideos.us/summer-of-code/
Our Social accounts
You can also see accepted projects on GSoC Projects.
We have a dedicated GSoC mailing list which you can subscribe to here.
If you have any questions most of our live chat takes place in IRC. Alternatively you can email us through: https://www.apertus.org/contact
Students get AXIOM Beta Remote Access to test and evaluate their code directly on a real AXIOM Beta hardware at our office.
AXIOM Beta is a professional digital cinema camera built around FOSS and open hardware licenses.
AXIOM Remote is designed to be a comprehensive remote control unit for the AXIOM Beta range of cameras
How to Contribute - Growing and improving documentation is an ongoing process and you're very welcome to contribute to the project by helping to make these archives better for everyone.