On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 01:38:27PM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > Google has confirmed it will have a Google Summer of Code for 2010 > [1]. Last year we had a few projects suggested (4) and accepted (3) > under the Linux Foundation sponsoring organization umbrella [2]. > Unfortunately out of the three projects that were approved only one > completed successfully, that of the adding AP support to Network > Manger. I haven't seen specific updates to the progress of that but I > do know some patches were indeed submitted to help with this effort. > Perhaps the student can elaborate more. > > The other projects that did not pass are up as suggestion for this > year again, but am hoping there are more. If you do have a project > idea please just go ahead and add your idea to the list of possible > projects [3]; you don't have to fill out a full page for it for now > but the more details you can add the better. If the Linux Foundation > does give us a few slots I recommend we be a little more strict about > acceptance criteria since our failure rate was pretty high (2/3) and > it would be better to see other projects get accepted if we do not > have the confidence our projects will be completed. One possibility to > help with the success rate of our projects might be to narrow the > scope down a little more. I think the testing and GeoClue project > might have been a little too ambitious and although we did have pretty > excited students we saw no progress at all. > > If you have ideas for projects just feel free to add to the wiki. We > should strive to get all project ideas finalized by the middle of > February, latest the end of February. Hopefully towards the end of > February we can see who would be willing to mentor each project. > Google plans on starting to accept would-be-mentor organization > applications on March 8th so we'll need our ideas finalized well > before that so we can send them as suggestions to the Linux Foundation > to see if we can get a few good project candidates accepted. > > [1] http://groups.google.com/group/google-summer-of-code-discuss/browse_thread/thread/d839c0b02ac15b3f > [2] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/GSoC/2009 > [3] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/GSoC/2010 I'm sorry if I'm a bit off-topic. But as I see this announce, I'm wondering about the topics for the google summer of code in the wider scope of the entire kernel. I'm a student and there are fair chances I'll be free for this summer so I start to think about applying. Are there currently some plans concerning other kernel areas? That doesn't mean I wouldn't be interested in a wireless project :) but there are many other areas that could host a Gsoc project too and I don't want to miss the whole variety of proposals. I guess we also can, as applying students, propose subjects too. Provided we find a mentor for the given project, which makes the things harder in this direction I fear. Anyway, what would be the right place to submit such proposals? I have various ideas in mind, in topics such as tracing/profiling, realtime, among other things... (could be: "Do as much bkl bashing as you can in two months, have fun, be brave..."). Thanks. -- 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
