[Moose-dev] ESA Summer of Code - BRL-CAD Refactoring

Inspired by GSoC is the European Space Agency Summer Of Code. One of the project ideas [1] is refactoring BRL-CAD. Perhaps someone knows of a student that might like to apply Moose to the problem. Stipend of 4000 Euros [2], and possibly an opportunity to use it as a case study for Moose, and publicize Moose/Pharo to the "defense" community, who have plenty of funds and long lived projects that might benefit from software analysis tools. About BRL-CAD [3]: "For more than 20 years, BRL-CAD has been the primary tri-service solid modeling CAD system used by the U.S. military to model weapons systems for vulnerability and lethality analyses. The solid modeling system is frequently used in a wide range of military, academic, and industrial applications including in the design and analysis of vehicles, mechanical parts, and architecture. The package has also been used in radiation dose planning, medical visualization, computer graphics education, CSG concepts and modeling education, and system performance benchmark testing among other purposes. BRL-CAD is a collection of more than 400 tools, utilities, and applications comprising more than a million lines of open-source code." [1] http://brlcad.org/wiki/Code_Reduction [2] http://sophia.estec.esa.int/socis2012/tos [3] http://brlcad.org/d/about cheers -ben