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@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,