Hi folks!
[ TL;DR - GSOC2016 is on - give us project ideas, links below! ]
I'm starting to put together Linaro's application for the 2016
iteration of Google's Summer of Code programme. We've been accepted as
a mentoring organisation once before, in 2014, and I'm hoping that
we'll be accepted again as a mentoring organisation for this year.
There's a lot more information about the GSoC on their 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 19 Feb 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!
We're also looking for volunteers to help with admin this year. Leif
Lindholm and Wookey have already provisionally volunteered again for
2016, 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] https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/
[2] https://wiki.linaro.org/SummerOfCode2016/ProjectIdeas
[3] https://wiki.linaro.org/SummerOfCode2016
Cheers,
--
Steve McIntyre steve.mcintyre(a)linaro.org
<http://www.linaro.org/> Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs
Hi,
I am keen on working on the project "ARM 64 developer environment
based on Ubuntu Core for DragonBoard™ 410c" with Linaro for GSOC-2016
as a student.
In the announcement made by Canonical at the below link -
http://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/02/24/canonical-to-offer-powerful-arm-64-bi…
this project aligns to the initiative. I would request potential
mentors to guide me for the same.
More details about the project below -
=== ARM 64 developer environment based on Ubuntu Core for DragonBoard™ 410c ===
* 'Mentors: NOT CONFIRMED
* Description: DragonBoard™ 410c by Arrow Electronics, features the
64-bit Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 410 quad-core processor. This project
aims to produce ARM-based 64-bit images for Ubuntu Core by
incorporating the Dragonboard BSP(linker script (linkcmds), GCC
customization script (e.g. bsp_specs), and startup code) into Ubuntu
Core build system directly.
* Desirable skills: C, BSP, Board Bringup
* Goal/Deliverable: This will be the very first ARM-based 64-bit
development board and SoC available for Ubuntu Core, offering makers
and Internet of Things (IoT) innovators an affordable, powerful yet
flexible development environment, which can scale from ARM-based
servers to embedded solutions. This offering builds on the DragonBoard
410c positioning as a standardised development board for the ARM
ecosystem and reference platform for Ubuntu Core on ARM 64-bit. This
means that future updates of the OS will be available for the
DragonBoard 410c, making a stable development environment.
Regards,
Saket Sinha
Sorry for the typo in subject - Linaro and Google Summer of Code, 2016
Regards,
Saket Sinha
On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 2:13 AM, Saket Sinha <saket.sinha89(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Steve,
>
> This is to inquire as to whether Linaro would be participating in
> Google Summer of Code this year ?
>
> The Mentoring Organization applications will be accepted for GSOC 2016
> from Feb 9.
>
> https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline
>
> Regards,
> Saket Sinha
Hi Steve,
This is to inquire as to whether Linaro would be participating in
Google Summer of Code this year ?
The Mentoring Organization applications will be accepted for GSOC 2016
from Feb 9.
https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline
Regards,
Saket Sinha
Hi all (bcc to "everyone"),
Just a quick notice to let everyone know that unfortunately Linaro was
not selected as a mentoring organisation for Google Summer of Code 2015.
Let's try again in 2016!
/
Leif
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.*
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
So, our two students have hopefully finished up on Monday 18th. Leif
is away but has given me his final evaluation for Varad so I can file
it for him. Grant, are you OK to file the final evaluation for Gaurav?
Cheers,
--
Steve McIntyre steve.mcintyre(a)linaro.org
<http://www.linaro.org/> Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs
Hi all,
This is my progress so far:
=== Week 1 ===
* Read U-Boot SPL code for AM335x to figure how it could be used to load
custom
binaries.
* Set up the BeagleBone Black, experiment with U-Boot command line.
* Started reading the available ARM Packages in edk2 to see what all can be
reused.
=== Week 2 ===
* Saw portions of the StarterWare code to see how it does things.
* Wrote a bare metal application to print a character stream over UART as
per the
TRM [1], facing some problems with initialization.
=== Next ===
* Debug the bare-metal binary, otherwise load it from U-Boot instead of MLO
* Study the HisiPkg code and start implementing features for AM335x
according to UEFI specs.
[1] http://fpaste.org/106566/32870140/
