BRL-CAD was the first project I ever contributed to, very nostalgic to see it on HN suddenly after all of these years.

Back in 2012 I was lucky enough get into the Google Summer of Code program and landed on this project. Everything confused me, I'm pretty sure the only contribution I managed that whole summer was switching out a couple system sort calls for a qsort implementation.

The BRL-CAD team was so helpful and friendly though, I remember having such a fun time tinkering all summer (mostly unsuccessfully) and talking with my mentor about the program.

This is all to say that the BRL-CAD team is great, and some 11 years later they're still apart of that program giving back to the community through mentorship.