Re: [Qemu-devel] Call for GSoC 2017 mentors & project ideas

["Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>]

Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com> writes:

> QEMU will be applying to Google Summer of Code again this year.
>
> Do you want to help some of the most talented university students
> begin contributing to open source by working on our codebase and
> joining our community?
>
> We need to put together a list of project ideas by February 9:
> http://qemu-project.org/Google_Summer_of_Code_2017#Project_Ideas

Will Outreachy point here as well or are we going to be duplicating
ideas? I seem to recall a lot of copy and pasting last time.

Could we not write a page-per-project and use categories with
transclusion on the wiki?

> Active contributors are invited to post project ideas.  The project
> should be doable in 12 weeks by someone fluent in C programming but
> not familiar with the codebase.  Good project ideas have a clear
> scope, few dependencies, a high chance of being merged, and can be
> broken down into smaller steps.
>
> For background on why QEMU participates in GSoC and how it works,
> check out my KVM Forum presentation:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNVCX7YMUL8
> https://vmsplice.net/~stefan/stefanha-kvm-forum-2016.pdf
>
> KVM and Jailhouse are invited to participate under the QEMU umbrella
> organization.
>
> Please let me know if you have any questions.
>
> Stefan


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Alex Bennée