Re: GSoC 2024 contributor news - restarting office hours

[Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>]

On Thu, May 2, 2024 at 9:00 PM Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> We were really excited and grateful for all of the Google
> Summer-of-Code (GSoC) applicants received this year. It was the most
> applicants for GSoC and the most we've ever received for Linux perf
> tools as part of the Linux foundation. Given the number of applicants,
> organizers held proposals to a high bar and we're sorry for all those
> who applied but failed to get a spot - we tried to argue for more
> spots. You are of course welcome to contribute to Linux perf outside
> of GSoC and everyone is here to help with that. Thank you for the
> contributions you've already made!
>
> We are excited to say that Howard Chu's proposal on perf trace and BTF
> for GSoC was accepted. The GSoC program officially starts on May 27th
> and now is a community bonding period [1].
>
> In the past to allow an open interaction with everyone in the project
> we've held weekly office hours/syncs with GSoC contributors. The
> office hours have often had wider discussions on perf event topics. It
> is difficult to pick a time/date for the office hours so if people
> have thoughts on organization then we'd love to know. Perhaps we can
> alternate time slots, or have more than one. I previously did a google
> forms survey and a timezone convenient to Europe was selected, but
> then we had very little attendance from people in that timezone.
> Somewhat selfishly this time I'd like a time slot that is convenient
> to the mentors and Howard.

Reminder that we're just under 2 weeks away from GSoC coding starting
so we need to make a decision on a day/time to hold office hours - or
multiple times if needs be.

Thanks,
Ian

> Thanks,
> Ian
>
> [1] https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline