request for guidence

request for guidence

[ShiHao]

Hello everyone,

I hope everyone is good. I am writing this letter to ask forsome guidance
on GSoC. I wanted some help regarding proposal since the application
period has began i wanted to ask whether to submit my prepared proposal
or not and wait for review by mentors first because the proposal template
is a bit different from google's suggested template that is why i have
some confusions. If anyone has some time to review my drafted proposal i
would be very thankful. Any help would be deeply appreciated

Thanks and regards
 Shi hao

Re: request for guidence

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

On 18/03/2026 13:32, ShiHao wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I hope everyone is good. I am writing this letter to ask forsome guidance
> on GSoC. I wanted some help regarding proposal since the application
> period has began i wanted to ask whether to submit my prepared proposal
> or not and wait for review by mentors first because the proposal template
> is a bit different from google's suggested template that is why i have
> some confusions. If anyone has some time to review my drafted proposal i
> would be very thankful. Any help would be deeply appreciated

Hey,

None of the people you Cc-ed here is involved in GSoC. You reached Linux
kernel community, which has nothing to do with GSoC. I suggest
contacting GSoC through whatever contact form the provided you on the
application.

Best regards,
Krzysztof

Re: request for guidence

[ShiHao]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2026 at 01:53:25PM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
 
> Hey,
> 
> None of the people you Cc-ed here is involved in GSoC. You reached Linux
> kernel community, which has nothing to do with GSoC. I suggest
> contacting GSoC through whatever contact form the provided you on the
> application.
> 
> Best regards,
> Krzysztof


hello Krzysztof,

      Thanks for your response. However i mailed them and got no
      response. It was instructed on the page  to contact respective
      mainling list. Also my mentors seems to be busy I submitted several
      DT conversion got no rely till now. The application period has began
      i don't know whom should i discuss all this then my mentros.

Best regards
 shihao

Re: request for guidence

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

On 18/03/2026 14:42, ShiHao wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2026 at 01:53:25PM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>  
>> Hey,
>>
>> None of the people you Cc-ed here is involved in GSoC. You reached Linux
>> kernel community, which has nothing to do with GSoC. I suggest
>> contacting GSoC through whatever contact form the provided you on the
>> application.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Krzysztof
> 
> 
> hello Krzysztof,
> 
>       Thanks for your response. However i mailed them and got no
>       response. It was instructed on the page  to contact respective
>       mainling list. Also my mentors seems to be busy I submitted several

I could not find any GSoC page telling that DT is the respective list to
contact about your application. Or that me or Mark or Bjorn are... Where
did you find it, so we can ask GSoC organizers to correct the docs?

>       DT conversion got no rely till now. The application period has began
>       i don't know whom should i discuss all this then my mentros.

On the GSoC pages, there is list of people from Linux Foundation to
reach. Unfortunately I do not know with whom else you could contact, but
I am sure that Linux kernel maintainers are not the ones to discuss it.
GSoC is Google's or Linux Foundation program, nothing to do with us.

Best regards,
Krzysztof

Re: request for guidence

[ShiHao]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2026 at 03:15:56PM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:

> I could not find any GSoC page telling that DT is the respective list to
> contact about your application. Or that me or Mark or Bjorn are... Where

Hello Krzysztof,

well it is actually said here.
https://github.com/LinuxFoundationGSoC/ProjectIdeas/wiki/Contributor-Application-Template
> On the GSoC pages, there is list of people from Linux Foundation to
> reach. Unfortunately I do not know with whom else you could contact, but
> I am sure that Linux kernel maintainers are not the ones to discuss it.
> GSoC is Google's or Linux Foundation program, nothing to do with us.
> 
> Best regards,
> Krzysztof

However lets drop this i submitted my proposal today so, beside
this i got one questions that is it okay to convert bindings
outside gsoc. Thanks for your help and sorry if i wasted your
time.


Best regards
 Shihao

Re: request for guidence

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

On 19/03/2026 10:17, ShiHao wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2026 at 03:15:56PM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> 
>> I could not find any GSoC page telling that DT is the respective list to
>> contact about your application. Or that me or Mark or Bjorn are... Where
> 
> Hello Krzysztof,
> 
> well it is actually said here.
> https://github.com/LinuxFoundationGSoC/ProjectIdeas/wiki/Contributor-Application-Template


I guess this part:
"ask on the mailing list or in the IRC channel of the appropriate workgroup"

This is not the mailing list of that workgroup. I also do not know what
is the mailing list of that GSoC workgroup - I think there is none.

>> On the GSoC pages, there is list of people from Linux Foundation to
>> reach. Unfortunately I do not know with whom else you could contact, but
>> I am sure that Linux kernel maintainers are not the ones to discuss it.
>> GSoC is Google's or Linux Foundation program, nothing to do with us.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Krzysztof
> 
> However lets drop this i submitted my proposal today so, beside
> this i got one questions that is it okay to convert bindings
> outside gsoc. Thanks for your help and sorry if i wasted your
> time.

Just remember we do not need any AI/LLM conversions, because that part
is already done. All TXT bindings are already converted that way.

Best regards,
Krzysztof