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@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,