From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Karsten Wade Subject: Re: GSoC ideas for Xen? Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 10:54:10 -0800 Message-ID: <54ECC8D2.50206@redhat.com> References: <54E659AC.10303@redhat.com> <54E66425.60106@redhat.com> <54EAC2F9.9090801@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta14.messagelabs.com ([193.109.254.103]) by lists.xen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1YQKcf-00054x-0z for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2015 18:54:21 +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 Cc: Lars Kurth , "dunlapg@umich.edu" , "xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org" List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/24/2015 06:34 AM, Lars Kurth wrote: > You seem to have a good list together by now. Should be good enough > for the application. Thanks, yeah, I really like the ideas, and a nice list of mentors. We've got some good stuff in there that should help the wider ecosystem, which I always prefer over things that just help the project itself. - - Karsten > Regards Lars > > >> On 23 Feb 2015, at 06:04, Karsten Wade wrote: >> > 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 >>>>>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>> > >> >> _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing >> list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel > - -- 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 iEYEARECAAYFAlTsyNIACgkQ2ZIOBq0ODEF4OgCgkcFZk/rrZN+L98JY29xg0gbF BVEAn0TnAx588qTiy6bg1Nrco1TP/bSa =p1xU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----