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-google-summer-of.html
[2] https://wiki.linaro.org/SummerOfCode2014
[3] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2014
Cheers,
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Steve McIntyre steve.mcintyre@linaro.org
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