On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 03:24:03PM +0200, Daniel Baluta wrote: > Hi all, > > Does anyone want to mentor an intern for the Outreachy program? > https://kernelnewbies.org/OutreachyIntro > > IIO drivers are very good tasks for such an intern, I have been a mentor > for the last 4 or 5 editions while working on: > > * cleaning up drivers and moving them out of staging > * enhancing the IIO dummy driver and moving it out of staging > * creating drivers from scratch for simple devices > > and it was a nice experience. > > What a mentor should do? > > In the pre-internship phase (14 February - 16 to March 30) > > * review patches and guide applicants on how to find small kernel fixes > * create small tasks for IIO [this can be mostly borrowed from last years] [1] > * create a small description for the project and find a small > device(s) for the project. > > In the internship phase [ 3 months starting around May ] > * help the intern with the setup and hardware > * (bi)weekly meetings for guidance or just answer interns questions on email. > * provide feedback to Outreachy on how the intern is doing. > > Please let me know or Julia (Cc-ed) if you are interested. > > The project doesn't necessary to be IIO related but it must be doable > by a 3rd/4th > year CS student with light kernel knowledge and good understanding of C. > > thanks, > Daniel. I'd be interested in driving this but I don't have an actual project lined up to offer the applicants. If someone has a project in mind and wants to hand it off or co-mentor, let's chat. I can do the tasks updates and have some small coding tasks queued for the application period also. As Daniel and I have experienced, working with the hardware is the fun part for the intern, but getting the hardware can be a challenge. It would be good if you have a sensor in mind, that you know is obtainable and the work will be applicable in the May-August timeframe. That is - we don't want to plan for a sensor and someone else submits support for it prior to the internship. Other safer ideas (instead of brand new sensor) might be... - adding new features to an existing class of drivers where the intern may only need to verify it with one sensor. - migrating another driver out of input/misc such as Eva is going right now with adxl345. - what else has been lingering on your todo/wish list ??? alisons > > [1] https://kernelnewbies.org/IIO_tasks > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-iio" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-iio" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
