Till, Are you going to setup a wiki page to collect proposed GSoC projects for the LF application this year? Something similar to [1]. [1] http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Google_Summer_of_Code_2009 -- Regards, Alexey Till Kamppeter wrote: > Great to hear from you. > > I will apply again for the LF entering as a mentoring organization and I > will add your projects to the list of proposed projects for the LF > application. > > Till > > P. S.: Do you know someone with knowledge in data compression? I will > run a project at OpenPrinting which is about data compression. > > > 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 >> >> 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
