On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 7:42 AM, John W. Linville > <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 03:36:00AM +0200, Mircea Gherzan wrote: >> >>> I'm a CS student (undergrad) wanting to do a wireless-related project >>> for the Google Summer of Code. >>> >>> As advised by Johannes Berg, I am posting on here in order to know the >>> mentors and to get a better understanding of the requierements. >>> >>> From the publised list, I am most interested in the roaming project. >>> Please, can anyone tell me who will be mentoring it, so I cand get in >>> touch with him/her? >> >> I think Luis Rodriguez penned the descriptions of those projects, >> so he might be the best person to ask about them. In any case, >> I would be happy to mentor such a project if you so desire. > > This is what we have, through some brainstorming on IRC and a few > e-mails with a few people. > > https://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Google_Summer_of_Code_2009#802.11_Wireless > > The application deadline was last Friday, March 13, 2009 so I suppose > that went in as-is. I volunteered a few people but if there are others > willing to help mentor some of these projects please just go right > ahead and add your name to the list or let me know and I'll add you. > > So there are three GSoC project ideas listed there: > > * Add AP support to Network Manager > * Improve wireless roaming > * Integrate GeoClue to help with regulatory compliance > > The last one is the one which I hope to be able to mentor the most on > but will also obviously need some help from Dan. That one is also > being reviewed in conjunction with a similar project idea for GNOME > GSoC: > > http://live.gnome.org/SummerOfCode2009/Ideas > > Seems GeoClue is welcomed for many reasons onto the desktop. > > Whether or not these GSoC projects get picked up by Google I still > think its worth to put this out there and see if people are will pick > some of this work up. > > OK so as for the question about roaming -- I'm up to help mentor it. > Anyone else? Forgot to add Kroy, which seemed interested in the GeoClue stuff. Luis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
