Hi all,
After several weeks of review and discussion, the application and
selection period for the 2014 Google Summer of Code is over. 4,420
students proposed a total of 6,313 projects for this summer. From
those, 1,307 students have been accepted [1], and Linaro is one of the
190 Open Source projects that will be working with students this year.
In our first year as a GSOC mentoring organisation, we received 17
applications and Google allocated us 3 slots for student projects. It
was quite a challenge to pick just 3 projects from the excellent
field, and it's a shame that the limited number of slots meant we had
no choice but to disappoint some people. Thanks to all those who
applied!
I'm delighted to announce our 3 chosen interns for 2014:
* Gaurav Minocha is a graduate student at the University of British
Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. His project is Linux Flattened Device
Tree Self-checking, mentored by Grant Likely from Linaro's Office
of the CTO.
* Ricardo de Freitas Gesuatto is a student at Federal University of
São Carlos (UFSCar), Brazil. He will be working on a project
entitled "Lightweight IP Stack on top of OpenDataPlane", mentored
by Maxim Uvarov from the Linaro Networking Group.
* Varad Gautam is a student at Birla Institute of Technology and
Science, Pilani, India. He will be Porting UEFI to Low-Cost
Embedded Platform (BeagleBoneBlack). Leif Lindholm from the Linaro
Enterprise Group will be mentoring.
Please join me in welcoming these three new engineers to the Linaro
team!
We have a GSOC wiki ready for our students to use at
https://gsoc.linaro.org/
and hopefully they will start adding content there soon about
themselves and their projects (hint!). In the meantime, we have more
information about our original proposals and the GSOC program in the
main Linaro wiki [2].
Starting today, the next phase of the program is the so-called
"bonding period". Students are encouraged to get to know people within
Linaro (especially their mentors!) and prepare to start work on their
projects, whatever is needed. The official start of the work period
for GSOC is May 19th, and it runs through to August 18th. [3] We will
give updates on progress through the summer, and we're hoping to talk
about our results at the next Linaro Connect in September.
Good luck, folks!
[1] http://google-opensource.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/students-announced-for-goog…
[2] https://wiki.linaro.org/SummerOfCode2014
[3] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2014
Cheers,
--
Steve McIntyre steve.mcintyre(a)linaro.org
<http://www.linaro.org/> Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs
Hi to Gaurav, Ricardo and Varad!
I've just made sure that you're all signed up for the mailing list
here. By all means change your subscriptions to use a more-preferred
email address, but please stay subscribed somehow as this is the
easiest way to get in touch.
First of all, congratulations on being accepted for the Google Summer
of Code 2014 and welcome to Linaro! Now the real hard work
starts... :-)
Today (22nd April) is the start of the bonding period. You're strongly
encouraged to get to know your mentors and prepare for your summer
project. Exactly what that entails is up to you and your mentors, but
try to spend some time and be ready. It's also worth signing up for
other Linaro mailing lists related to your project, and please join us
on the various IRC channels too if you can. freenode.org, #linaro-gsoc
is a good place to be.
Timings
=======
Google's timeline page at
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2014
is an important thing to use - it contains all the key dates for the
summer. Key highlights:
* 22nd April - Bonding period start
* 19th May - Official project start
* 27th June - Midterm evaluation deadline
* 11th August - Suggested "pencils down" date
* 22nd August - Final evaluation deadline, code submissions to Google
Resources
=========
We have a GSOC-specific wiki set up at
https://gsoc.linaro.org/
with some boiler-plate text in place so far. Hopefully you *should* be
able to register for accounts and add some text about yourselves and
your projects now. Please try and do that ASAP, and let me know if you
have any problems with that.
I'd like to encourage you to post to the Linaro mailing lists, and
definitely to blog about what you're working on! planet.linaro.org is
our obviously-named blog aggregator - please point me at your
Linaro-related feeds and I'll get you added there.
In terms of code hosting, please work out with your mentors the best
system / place to do that. Your code needs to be public, so obvious
possibilities are places like github.
If you've got random questions that you're not sure who to ask, please
ask here on the linaro-gsoc list, or on IRC, or we have a more generic
linaro-mentors mailing list (and matching #linaro-mentors IRC channel)
too.
Reporting
=========
On top of the mandatory mid-term and final evaluations that Google
require, once you've started the main coding phase we will ask you to
send in a weekly progress report describing how you're getting
on. Please send them to the mailing list. They don't have to be
*vastly* detailed, but please keep us up to date on what you're doing!
Your mentor should be on top of this even more, but how and how often
you talk to them is up to you and them to work out - irc, mail, phone,
skype, hangouts are all an option here. Your (primary) mentor should
also introduce you to secondary mentor(s) in case of vacation etc. -
please ask!
Problems?
=========
If you have issues, don't get down. Ask us - we're here to help. We
don't bite! Obviously, your mentor should be your first port of call
if you need anything. If there are problems there, by all means
contact me and the other admins:
Steve McIntyre <steve.mcintyre(a)linaro.org>
Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm(a)linaro.org>
Wookey <wookey(a)linaro.org>
and we'll do what we can to help. If there's still an issue at that
point, please talk to the GSOC admins at Google and they'll help to
resolve things.
We're expecting a lot of work from you this summer, but we also
understand that you're not that experienced and this could be quite
daunting! The main thing is - please stay in touch. If you go quiet
and we can't talk to you then that's the worst option.
In case of emergency, let us know. If you haven't already provided
them, please give me emergency contact phone numbers privately (or to
the list if you're happy for them to be public!). I doubt we'll need
them, but it's best to have them *just in case*. I'll happily give you
my own number in return.
Finally
=======
Welcome aboard! I hope you all have a fun summer and achieve some
great results in your projects!
Cheers,
--
Steve McIntyre steve.mcintyre(a)linaro.org
<http://www.linaro.org/> Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs
Hi folks,
The nice people at Google have given us *3* slots for student projects
this summer. Based on past experience and guidance this year, they've
been very generous to us. Let's do our best to not let them down!
Cheers,
--
Steve McIntyre steve.mcintyre(a)linaro.org
<http://www.linaro.org/> Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs
