Hi folks!
[ TL;DR - GSOC2015 is on - give us project ideas, links below! ]
After a lovely successful summer in 2014, I'm starting to put together
Linaro's application for the 2015 iteration of Google's Summer of Code
programme. Last year, we were allocated three student projects and two
of them went very well. Based on that, there's a great chance we'll be
accepted again as a mentoring organisation for this year and maybe
even get more project slots.
There's a lot more information about the GSoC on their 2015 site [1],
but as a quick summary for those who may have not come across it
before:
* Lots of Open Source projects sign up as mentoring organisations
* Lots of students apply for summer internships
* Google pay salaries for some of those students to work alongside
existing developers in the mentoring organisations
The idea is that more students get an interesting summer job working
on Open Source, ideally to the benefit of both the students and the
projects involved.
The window for mentoring organisation applications opens while we're
in Hong Kong during Connect next month, and I'll get Google's
requisite paperwork done then. Before that, however, I've started on
the rest of the stuff we need, and I need help from you!
Projects
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I'm certain that there are some good potential project ideas in Linaro
that would suit the Summer of Code, but I don't know about all of
them! So... if you know of a project in Linaro where:
a) a student could do some useful work;
b) we have somebody prepared to act as a mentor
then please let us know about it. Fill in some details on our project
ideas page [2] so that we have something for Google and the students
to come and look at! The more ideas we can suggest for summer projects
like this, the more likely we are to be accepted by Google when they
come to pick this year's mentoring organisations.
Mentors and admins
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We additionally need people to sign up as potential mentors - if
you've got a project idea then that's lovely. Even if you don't but
you think you could mentor a student anyway on some project, please
sign up anyway [3] and talk to us!
Helpfully, the beginning of the GSOC process also clashes with my
1-month sabbatical this year (visiting Australia straight after
Connect, yay!), so I'm looking for volunteers to help with admin this
year. Leif Lindholm has already volunteered again for 2015, but it
might be nice to have somebody else from a different physical office
too! Talk to me...
More information
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There's massively more information about Linaro and GSOC in the wiki
right now at [3], but if that doesn't answer all your questions then
please ask me or other folks on the linaro-gsoc(a)lists.linaro.org or on
the #linaro-gsoc IRC channel...
[1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2015
[2] https://wiki.linaro.org/SummerOfCode2015/ProjectIdeas
[3] https://wiki.linaro.org/SummerOfCode2015
Cheers,
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Steve McIntyre steve.mcintyre(a)linaro.org
<http://www.linaro.org/> Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs
