From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753676AbZCMC7c (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:59:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751218AbZCMC7X (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:59:23 -0400 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:35166 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750843AbZCMC7W (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:59:22 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:57:06 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Till Kamppeter Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tech-board@lists.linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [Tech-board] Google Summer of Code 2009: Linux kernel project ideas Message-ID: <20090313025706.GB5385@kroah.com> References: <49B995BB.8020108@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49B995BB.8020108@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 12:07:39AM +0100, Till Kamppeter wrote: > Hi, > > last year we had also mentored two Linux kernel projects as part of the > Linux Foundation's participation in the Google Summer of Code and these > projects got successfully completed. What projects were they? > Also this year the Linux Foundation is applying as a mentoring > organization. To get the best chances to get accepted, we will need a > project idea list which a variety of projects. > > In addition, the Linux kernel is a big project always searching for new > developers and having work to be done. > > Therefore I ask you whether you are interested to mentor GSoC students > to work on some kernel projects. If so, please add your project ideas to > our ideas list: > > https://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Google_Summer_of_Code_2009 > > Best would be to add them before the org application deadline tomorrow, > Friday, March 13, 7pm UTC, so that the people from Google find a rich > ideas list when selecting the orgs. > > If the kernel is entering as a mentoring organization by itself, please > tell. Then we will remove the kernel group from our ideas list. I don't see any change from the past few years when this has come up in the past with regards to projects relating to the kernel. Do you know of any? Also, please note that Portland State University has traditionally sponsered a few kernel projects every year for quite some time now with very good results, so there is some competition there... (ob disclosure, I'm a mentor for PSU's GSoC group.) thanks, greg k-h