Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933646AbYCDT44 (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Mar 2008 14:56:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933376AbYCDTzU (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Mar 2008 14:55:20 -0500 Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.198.188]:4428 "EHLO rv-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761051AbYCDTzS (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Mar 2008 14:55:18 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=M6bs9Z4ipMIxzBwzV+qWsA+G/wMN+dvKIFxF1tP8/jiIxMRYxp14ULKXH88wKQEs9Q0mRnZ1T4f/xmHXt7I2J5x3lsK0q8CBkQzNTdVC3t+sPWb1hpq2YizIZaR2eIQKiysUGx0QKa2SgJaooFpjYV9dq/YHZSOEK9VtfuuVFpg= Message-ID: <84144f020803041155k222c13ecu13c8c9534ced87e5@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 21:55:14 +0200 From: "Pekka Enberg" To: "Linus Torvalds" Subject: Re: Google's Summer of Code? Cc: "Linux kernel mailing list" , "Andrew Morton" , "Ingo Molnar" , "Vegard Nossum" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <84144f020803041045i70bbb05l6983bd14c5bcc91a@mail.gmail.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 41fdc82767799c71 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1639 Lines: 35 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 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 > > 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/