Re: [lsb-discuss] Linux wireless GSoC 2010 project ideas

[Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@ispras.ru>]

Till,

Are you going to setup a wiki page to collect proposed GSoC projects for
the LF application this year?
Something similar to [1].

[1] http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Google_Summer_of_Code_2009

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Regards,
Alexey


Till Kamppeter wrote:
> Great to hear from you.
>
> I will apply again for the LF entering as a mentoring organization and I 
> will add your projects to the list of proposed projects for the LF 
> application.
>
>     Till
>
> P. S.: Do you know someone with knowledge in data compression? I will 
> run a project at OpenPrinting which is about data compression.
>
>
> Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>   
>> Google has confirmed it will have a Google Summer of Code for 2010
>> [1]. Last year we had a few projects suggested (4) and accepted (3)
>> under the Linux Foundation sponsoring organization umbrella [2].
>> Unfortunately out of the three projects that were approved only one
>> completed successfully, that of the adding AP support to Network
>> Manger. I haven't seen specific updates to the progress of that but I
>> do know some patches were indeed submitted to help with this effort.
>> Perhaps the student can elaborate more.
>>
>> The other projects that did not pass are up as suggestion for this
>> year again, but am hoping there are more. If you do have a project
>> idea please just go ahead and add your idea to the list of possible
>> projects [3]; you don't have to fill out a full page for it for now
>> but the more details you can add the better. If the Linux Foundation
>> does give us a few slots I recommend we be a little more strict about
>> acceptance criteria since our failure rate was pretty high (2/3) and
>> it would be better to see other projects get accepted if we do not
>> have the confidence our projects will be completed. One possibility to
>> help with the success rate of our projects might be to narrow the
>> scope down a little more. I think the testing and GeoClue project
>> might have been a little too ambitious and although we did have pretty
>> excited students we saw no progress at all.
>>
>> If you have ideas for projects just feel free to add to the wiki. We
>> should strive to get all project ideas finalized by the middle of
>> February, latest the end of February. Hopefully towards the end of
>> February we can see who would be willing to mentor each project.
>> Google plans on starting to accept would-be-mentor organization
>> applications on  March 8th so we'll need our ideas finalized well
>> before that so we can send them as suggestions to the Linux Foundation
>> to see if we can get a few good project candidates accepted.
>>
>> [1] http://groups.google.com/group/google-summer-of-code-discuss/browse_thread/thread/d839c0b02ac15b3f
>> [2] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/GSoC/2009
>> [3] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/GSoC/2010
>>
>>   Luis
>>
>>     
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