On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 10:19 PM Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 11:15 PM Michael Turquette > <mturquette@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 11:18 PM Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 9:38 PM Michael Turquette > > > <mturquette@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > I would be interested in learning more about the duties and > > > > expectations of mentorship. Do you have a link? If it's not too much > > > > work to add to my load then consider me interested. > > > > > > > > > > The mentor GSoC guide tells you all you need to know: > > > > > > https://google.github.io/gsocguides/mentor/ > > > > Count me in. The project that I described would be a new solution or > > utility, and commits may not go into an existing open source project. > > Is that OK for GSoC? If not then I have a related project idea that > > would include code contributions to an existing FOSS project on > > github, but prefer the current submission as-is. > > > > Great! > > I have not check the Terms in full depth here: > https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/terms/org > and IANAL. > > As I see it: > > - Mentor organizations must run an active open source or free software project. > - Have produced and released software under an OSI approved license. > > (https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/get-started/) is all covered. > > Important aspects for GSoC are: > > - there is a larger community for the student to announce his work, > reach out to and impact: in this case, Linux kernel community, kernel > workflows group, patchwork project team; we are well covered here. > - it is published under an open-source license, that is clear how to cover here. > - it becomes at some point a part of the larger software project. I > would suggest that the work is in the end documented with pointers to > sources etc. in the kernel maintainer handbook, i.e., > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/maintainer/index.html, with a > suitable section on the topic. That gives a maintainer (that has time > to read the kernel documentation) a fair chance of finding out about > this tool. Agreed on all points. Best, Mike > > > Best regards, > > Lukas > > > Lukas -- Michael Turquette CEO - Los Angeles, CA BayLibre - At the Heart of Embedded Linux http://baylibre.com/ Schedule a meeting: https://calendly.com/mturquette
