GSoC 2024 contributor news - restarting office hours

GSoC 2024 contributor news - restarting office hours

[Ian Rogers]

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.

Thanks,
Ian

[1] https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline

Re: GSoC 2024 contributor news - restarting office hours

[Ian Rogers]

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

Re: GSoC 2024 contributor news - restarting office hours

[Ian Rogers]

On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 11:12 PM Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

We're under a week away now. Would 8am (PST GMT-7), 12pm noon (GMT-3),
11pm (GMT+8) on Wednesdays work for people?

Thanks,
Ian

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