Hi again folks!
Applications are open now for GSOC 2015 mentoring organisations, and
I'm going to be entering Linaro today/tomorrow. If you'd like to be
involved as a mentor or admin then please visit our wiki page
https://wiki.linaro.org/SummerOfCode2015
or if you have a project idea that you'd like to suggest for a student
for the summer then go ahead and propose it at
https://wiki.linaro.org/SummerOfCode2015/ProjectIdeas
Bonus points for ideas for students to work on a 96boards related
project!
Oh, and if you're at Connect this week then please keep an eye out for
Varad Gautam, one of our successful students from 2014. He's around
this week and I'm sure he'd love to talk to people about his project
and what he's doing now... :-)
On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 07:10:33PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>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
>========
>
>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
>==================
>
>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
>================
>
>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,
>--
>Steve McIntyre steve.mcintyre(a)linaro.org
><http://www.linaro.org/> Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs
Cheers,
--
Steve McIntyre steve.mcintyre(a)linaro.org
<http://www.linaro.org/> Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs
Hi all,
I'm Madushan Nishantha from Sri Lanka.
I'm interested in participating GSoC 2015 with one of linaros projects. I
already looked at the project "Android Board Bringup" with the HiKey board
and currently talking to the people on linaro-gsoc irc about it.
In the meantime I'd like to know if there is any projects or ideas related
to project ARA because I'm very excited to see ARA succeed.
I'd be thankful for any help regarding these two things.
A little about me:
I have a fairly good understanding and experience about C and C++
programming. I've worked with Perl, Python ans Shell scripting. I have
experiences with AOSP/Cyanogen build systems because a while back I tried
to port Firefox OS to my smartphone. And I work with Linux daily.
Thank you.
--
*Faithfully,*
*Madushan Nishantha,*
*Student at Faculty of Engineering,*
*University of Peradeniya.*
*Sri Lanka.*
