Khronos member StreamComputing launched an educational initiative that aims to get more developers to study and use OpenCL in their projects. Within this project, up to 20 collaborators will port as many GEGL operations to OpenCL as possible. Vincent Hindriksen and Adel Johar who organized this project looked for a way for the group to educate themselves. One of the ways was to gamify the porting by benchmarking the kernels and defining winners, and another was to optimize kernels within StreamComputing to push the limits. Victor Oliveira, who wrote most of the OpenCL code in GEGL, joined the GEGL-OpenCL project to advise.