From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Karsten Wade Subject: Re: GSoC ideas for Xen? Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 22:04:41 -0800 Message-ID: <54EAC2F9.9090801@redhat.com> References: <54E659AC.10303@redhat.com> <54E66425.60106@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta3.messagelabs.com ([195.245.230.39]) by lists.xen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1YPm8Q-0000Vf-43 for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Mon, 23 Feb 2015 06:04:50 +0000 In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Lars Kurth , "dunlapg@umich.edu" Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org" List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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" 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 >>>> > >> > - -- Karsten 'quaid' Wade .^\ CentOS Doer of Stuff http://TheOpenSourceWay.org \ http://community.redhat.com @quaid (identi.ca/twitter/IRC) \v' gpg: AD0E0C41 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAlTqwvkACgkQ2ZIOBq0ODEFp7QCdHiZBdmd58/3bJxY6laSTgnWP bIsAoIqC65uYRvrxPzR6e0KLCnjfI+U/ =DH4S -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----