From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...>
Subject: Google's Summer of Code?
 [10]Date: Mar 4, 2:45 pm 2008

Hi all,

Are there any plans to send an application of Linux kernel as a mentor
organization for Google's Summer of Code this year? I think there are
probably a lot of students interested in hacking on the kernel. And
no, I am not volunteering to send that application but I would be
interested in being a mentor.

			Pekka
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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>
Subject: Re: Google's Summer of Code?
 [10]Date: Mar 4, 3:35 pm 2008

On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Pekka Enberg wrote:
>
> Are there any plans to send an application of Linux kernel as a mentor
> organization for Google's Summer of Code this year? I think there are
> probably a lot of students interested in hacking on the kernel. And
> no, I am not volunteering to send that application but I would be
> interested in being a mentor.

We haven't done it before (afaik), and I don't think we've had anybody 
sign up to suggest a project and mentor it. It's probably worth talking to 
people in other projects that have done the gsoc thing before. 

And no, I'm not going to do that "mentor organization" application thing 
either, but there's bound to be *somebody* who wants to do it. Maybe it 
could even be done as part of the Linux-foundation drive (currently LSB 
and OpenPrinting, no kernel projects). See

	https://www.linux-foundation.org/en/Google_Summer_of_Code [11]

and maybe we can add a kernel thing to there.

		Linus
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From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...>
Subject: Re: Google's Summer of Code?
 [11]Date: Mar 4, 3:55 pm 2008

Hi Linus,

On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Pekka Enberg wrote:
>  > Are there any plans to send an application of Linux kernel as a mentor
>  > organization for Google's Summer of Code this year? I think there are
>  > probably a lot of students interested in hacking on the kernel. And
>  > no, I am not volunteering to send that application but I would be
>  > interested in being a mentor.

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 9:35 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>  We haven't done it before (afaik), and I don't think we've had anybody
>  sign up to suggest a project and mentor it. It's probably worth talking to
>  people in other projects that have done the gsoc thing before.
>
>  And no, I'm not going to do that "mentor organization" application thing
>  either, but there's bound to be *somebody* who wants to do it. Maybe it
>  could even be done as part of the Linux-foundation drive (currently LSB
>  and OpenPrinting, no kernel projects). See
>
>         https://www.linux-foundation.org/en/Google_Summer_of_Code [12]
>
>  and maybe we can add a kernel thing to there.

Well, to that particular someone out there, please let me know where
to sign up as a mentor. I am also wondering if such a high profile
project as the kernel can get away with not having a "project ideas"
list which would make things real easy for the administrator(s)...

                                 Pekka
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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...>
Subject: Re: Google's Summer of Code?
 [12]Date: Mar 4, 4:13 pm 2008

On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 21:55:14 +0200
"Pekka Enberg" <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote:

> I am also wondering if such a high profile
> project as the kernel can get away with not having a "project ideas"
> list which would make things real easy for the administrator(s)...

http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelProjects [13]

There are surely many more things we could put there.

I receive a dribble of emails about the setrlimit64/getrlimit64 one, so
people are looking at it, and are looking to do work.  (I haven't usefully
responded to those emails, btw - am not sure how my name got on that one -
probably Ulrich would be better).


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From: Justin C. Sherrill <justin@...>
Subject: Soc 2008 - we're in!
 [13]Date: Mar 17, 10:13 pm 2008

http://code.google.com/soc/2008/dragonfly/about.html [14]

Yay us!  There were a number of people who had spoken up before; now is
your chance - Sdävtaker, Robert Luciani + Danwei, Jost Tobias
Springenberg, and Vita "CiV" Cizek were the names I had down.

If you are an interested student, now is the time to check the Ideas page
on the wiki (link below) or come up with a project of your own.  Students
will be able to apply to the Summer of Code starting on March 25th though
March 31st, so please use the intervening time to get it together.

If you end up as a mentor, there's a few mailing lists that Google runs
that would be good to watch.  I'll post details on that when we know how
many mentors we have.

More info:
http://code.google.com/opensource/gsoc/2008/faqs.html [15]

Ideas page:
http://wiki.dragonflybsd.org/index.cgi/GoogleSoC2008 [16]

Google post:
http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2008/03/meet-your-mentors.html [17]
(link yoinked from Hubert Feyrer)


From: Justin C. Sherrill <justin@...>
Subject: GSoC 2008 - mentors signup
 [17]Date: Mar 23, 11:31 pm 2008

If you are planning to be a mentor for a Summer of Code project, please
sign up here for the mentors mailing list:

http://groups.google.com/group/google-summer-of-code-mentors-list [18]

If you've already signed up, your subscription should be set up tomorrow.


From: Justin C. Sherrill <justin@...>
Subject: Re: GSoC 2008 - mentors signup
 [18]Date: Mar 24, 12:06 am 2008

Also!

If you are a potential mentor and you have not done so yet:

http://code.google.com/soc/mentor_step1.html [19]

Get yourself registered as a mentor for the Summer of Code project.  Once
you are in there, check off DragonFly in the "My Profile" section.

You will need a Google Account if you don't have one:

http://www.google.com/accounts [20]

This will add you to the list of mentors in the Google Summer of Code web
application, so you can review/be attached to projects.

A guide is available if you want more information:

http://groups.google.com/group/google-summer-of-code-announce/web/guide-to-the-gsoc-we... [21]

From: Murray Stokely <murray@...>
Subject: [FreeBSD-Announce] Summer Programming Opportunities for Students (Summer of Code)
 [21]Date: Mar 17, 6:21 pm 2008

The FreeBSD Project is happy to again participate in Google's Summer
of Code program.  This program provides 00 in funding to allow
students to spend the summer writing open source software.  If you or
someone you know would be interested in this program, please visit our
website at :

  http://www.freebsd.org/projects/summerofcode.html [22]

There you will find a large list of interesting projects in diverse
areas of modern Unix operating system development.  Some example tasks
involve writing kernel/networking regression test suites, working on
peripheral device driver infrastructure, improving multibyte character
support, improving the IPv6 support in userland utilities, and much
more.

You will also find a list of senior developers who have agreed to act
as mentors to interested students.  Once you have identified a project
and a mentor, you should complete a proposal and submit it to Google
before the March 31 deadline.

Thanks,

        - Murray
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From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@...>
Subject: Google Summer of Code 2008 is on!
 [24]Date: Mar 18, 12:21 am 2008

Git has been accepted to Google Summer of Code 2008, our second
year particpating in this exciting program.

  http://code.google.com/soc/2008/git/about.html [25]

There is a nice categorized list of the other 175 accepted
organizations listed here:

  http://genmapp.org/gsoc/mentors_by_category.htm [26]


Students interested in applying to Git for this year's summer of
code should look at the program FAQ, and especially the timeline:

  http://code.google.com/opensource/gsoc/2008/faqs.html [27]
  http://code.google.com/opensource/gsoc/2008/faqs.html#0.1_timeline [28]

Student applications are March 24th through March 31st.  But you
can start getting active now.


Interested students should take a look at our ideas page and
application template:

  http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/SoC2008Ideas [29]
  http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/SoC2008Template [30]

Students can directly contact a potential mentor by email or #git
on IRC, or to start discussing a project of interest on the mailing
list itself.  All Git related projects are welcome, so if you have
an interesting idea not listed on our ideas page, speak up!


Anyone who has been here a while and is interested in being a
mentor, please contact me off-list and I'll give you the details.
We want mentors who are passionate about the student project they
are paired up with, and who know that particular part of Git well
enough to help a student who is new to Git (and open source) do
something really exciting this summer.

-- 
Shawn.
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