Re: GSoC ideas for Xen?

[Karsten Wade <kwade@redhat.com>]

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On 02/19/2015 03:54 PM, Lars Kurth wrote:
>> Do you have anything that you would want to do in joint or
>> through CentOS GSoC efforts?
> We probably do, but don't have time to put this together in there
> next 24 hours. A bit of thought and word smithing is needed. There
> is nothing on our existing list that can be moved over.

No problem, I realized near the end that I hadn't directly reached out
to SIG leadership to see what they were thinking about, hence my
last-hour appeal. :)

> Is there any infrastructure stuff you could add: the issue I see is
> that you have an empty project list, which means as a mentoring org
> you have 0 chance of getting into GSoC. From my experience it is
> necessary to start the process for GSoC in December.

Agreed, and just like last year I forgot my experience here -- i.e.,
once you see the notice that GSoC 20** is "on", start working on it.
So the opening week snuck up on me. :)

Cheers,

- - Karsten

> Regards Lars
> 
> On 19/02/2015 14:31, "Karsten Wade" <kwade@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> On 02/19/2015 01:58 PM, Lars Kurth wrote:
>>>> Adding the xen-devel list. Note that we are a long time 
>>>> participant of GSoC and OPW. Our project list is on 
>>>> wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/GSoC_2015
> 
> Do you have anything that you would want to do in joint or through 
> CentOS GSoC efforts?
> 
>>>> We are both at CollabSummit, which is why we have not
>>>> responded to KB's mail
> 
> Gotcha, thanks. Yeah, I had to choose SCALE this year since they 
> conflicted.
> 
> - Karsten
> 
>>>> Lars ________________________________________ From: Karsten
>>>> Wade [kwade@redhat.com] Sent: 19 February 2015 21:46 To: Lars
>>>> Kurth; dunlapg@umich.edu Subject: GSoC ideas for Xen?
>>>> 
>>>> George, Lars:
>>>> 
>>>> We're collecting ideas (over the next 24 hours) for work
>>>> that Google Summer of Code students can do via the CentOS
>>>> Project. In the past I've had good success with doing work
>>>> with GSoC students via the Fedora Project where the work
>>>> happens primarily in the upstream project, as long as it
>>>> lands back with the distro. We think the same can work for
>>>> CentOS SIGs.
>>>> 
>>>> For the Xen Project we're looking for items that might be
>>>> directly or indirectl related to work needed in your SIG. It
>>>> could be integration, packaging, or any other code-related
>>>> task.
>>>> 
>>>> Each idea needs to be associated with a mentor, but we can
>>>> be flexible about the final mentor assignment once we
>>>> (hopefully) get accepted to this year's GSoC.
>>>> 
>>>> You can see the template of what we need to fill out for
>>>> each idea.
>>>> 
>>>> http://wiki.centos.org/GSoC/2015/Ideas
>>>> 
>>>> Remember that these are tasks for e.g. computer science
>>>> students, and a part of the work for the mentor is simply
>>>> getting the student able to effectively contribute and
>>>> collaborate in an open community. This means you can take an
>>>> idea you might do over two months and split it in to 4 parts
>>>> for 4 different students, etc.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> 
>>>> - Karsten
>>>> 
> 
>> 
> 

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