From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 22:15:41 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] Student for the Google Summer of Code, hardware donations needed Message-ID: <20130525221541.0ef3ab27@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello all, As we have already discussed on this list, Buildroot was a candidate project for the Google Summer of Code and has been selected as an organization. We have then proposed one project idea (and only one for this first participation of Buildroot to GSoC). In total, we received 8 submissions. Three of them were completely out-of-topic, people not having read the project idea (just to give you an idea, the title of such submissions were things like "A PEN DRIVE WITH MALE AND FEMALE USB PORTS" or "working on linux ubuntu"). Amongst the five remaining submissions, two of them originated from people really not having enough experience with Embebdded Linux, and absolutely no experience with Buildroot. We had three remaining submissions, from Alexander Varnin, Victor Hiairrassary and Spenser Gilliland. They had all already posted a few patches to Buildroot, so were interesting candidates. After reviewing their submissions, and having a few discussions, we (a group of core Buildroot developers, Peter Korsgaard, Arnout Vandecappelle, Gustavo Zacarias, Yann E. Morin, Thomas De Schampheleire and myself) decided to select Spenser Gilliland. As you've probably seen, even though the GSoC period has not started yet, Spenser has appeared on IRC, has already posted a number of interesting patches, and he will participate to tomorrow's Patchwork Day. However, the selection of Spenser and its participation to GSoC is not completely official yet. On May 27th, at 7 PM UTC, Google will officially announce the selected student. Throughout Spenser's GSoC, which will last until the end of September, you can keep track of the progress at http://elinux.org/Buildroot:GSoC2013_ARM_Multimedia (the page is mostly empty for now, it will soon be filled in). In order to allow Spenser to work on the support of ARM multimedia features (OpenGL, OpenVG, EGL, accelerated video encoding/decoding, etc.), we need a number of hardware platforms. He already has a Rasberry Pi, we have found sponsors to provide OMAP3/OMAP4/AM335x based platforms and i.MX5/i.MX6 platforms. We intend to buy him an Allwinner A1x based platform and an Exynos 4 based platforms. If you see other interesting platforms to support and/or if you (or your company) is willing to sponsor an hardware platform for this GSoC, we would definitely be interested. Do not hesitate to contact me about this. Best regards, Thomas Petazzoni -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com