Welcome Gautam, Ricardo and Varad, good luck :-)

Regards,

Amit Khare 

On 23 April 2014 11:25, Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org> wrote:

Hi Gautam, Ricardo and Varad,

Welcome, and congratulations!! :)

Best regards,
~Sumit.

On 22 April 2014 17:05, Steve McIntyre <steve.mcintyre@linaro.org> wrote:
> 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,
> --
> Steve McIntyre                                steve.mcintyre@linaro.org
> <http://www.linaro.org/> Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs
>

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Thanks and regards,

Sumit Semwal
Graphics Engineer - Graphics working group

Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs

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Regards,

Amit Khare