Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933792AbYCDUXk (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Mar 2008 15:23:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1763672AbYCDUX2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Mar 2008 15:23:28 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:35381 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762925AbYCDUX1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Mar 2008 15:23:27 -0500 Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 15:23:03 -0500 From: Rik van Riel To: "Alexey Zaytsev" Cc: "Pekka Enberg" , "Linus Torvalds" , "Linux kernel mailing list" , "Andrew Morton" , "Ingo Molnar" , "Vegard Nossum" Subject: Re: Google's Summer of Code? Message-ID: <20080304152303.2a041814@cuia.boston.redhat.com> In-Reply-To: References: <84144f020803041045i70bbb05l6983bd14c5bcc91a@mail.gmail.com> <84144f020803041155k222c13ecu13c8c9534ced87e5@mail.gmail.com> Organization: Red Hat, Inc X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.1.0 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2342 Lines: 51 On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 23:05:34 +0300 "Alexey Zaytsev" wrote: > On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 10:55 PM, Pekka Enberg wrote: > > 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. Actually, I have a list of possible projects online already: http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelProjects The list is on a wiki and "unfiltered", so we may need to look into the quality of the proposals a bit more before Summer of Code, and/or accept proposals by the Summer of Code volunteers and help them make sure their proposals are useful. > Maybe the Kernelnewbies should stand up as the mentoring organisation? Kernelnewbies is just a community of people, without much organization. However, I would be happy to coordinate a group of mentors for Linux kernel Summer of Code as well as be a mentor for the kernel subsystems that I know something about. If we can find mentors to cover most of the kernel (volunteers? anyone?), we can do a good enough job of mentoring the students that we could sign up for Summer of Code. Summer of Code could also be a good way to get some kernel related work done, for example LTP tests for kernel subsystems that do not have a test suite yet. Maybe not the most interesting work, but it can be very educational as well as useful - that and $5000 may be enough to motivate students to get some of this "boring work" done :) -- All Rights Reversed -- 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/