Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753577Ab0A1WGw (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:06:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752039Ab0A1WGv (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:06:51 -0500 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.156]:2080 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751408Ab0A1WGu (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:06:50 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=fYlQP2GizvJ1h4BPov7ulwxF25ikb5Hi56d5MqZu5BARnpG7j+LtYVbWWYdqCNXKig VLFVYIfqiFeayd3uIra661tplxJYUNk2xODMtcUw86w4yEmA9BAGG2IPyPLIcjW0lXDJ cJWowKTznusyuieB8KZjAANgzEJYfLmx1SULQ= Message-ID: <4B620A72.7050202@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:06:42 +0100 From: Till Kamppeter User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090817) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" CC: linux-wireless , Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lsb-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: Linux wireless GSoC 2010 project ideas References: <43e72e891001281338u5f05307ble5360c3dac6ab9a2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <43e72e891001281338u5f05307ble5360c3dac6ab9a2@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2803 Lines: 57 Great to hear from you. I will apply again for the LF entering as a mentoring organization and I will add your projects to the list of proposed projects for the LF application. Till P. S.: Do you know someone with knowledge in data compression? I will run a project at OpenPrinting which is about data compression. Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > Google has confirmed it will have a Google Summer of Code for 2010 > [1]. Last year we had a few projects suggested (4) and accepted (3) > under the Linux Foundation sponsoring organization umbrella [2]. > Unfortunately out of the three projects that were approved only one > completed successfully, that of the adding AP support to Network > Manger. I haven't seen specific updates to the progress of that but I > do know some patches were indeed submitted to help with this effort. > Perhaps the student can elaborate more. > > The other projects that did not pass are up as suggestion for this > year again, but am hoping there are more. If you do have a project > idea please just go ahead and add your idea to the list of possible > projects [3]; you don't have to fill out a full page for it for now > but the more details you can add the better. If the Linux Foundation > does give us a few slots I recommend we be a little more strict about > acceptance criteria since our failure rate was pretty high (2/3) and > it would be better to see other projects get accepted if we do not > have the confidence our projects will be completed. One possibility to > help with the success rate of our projects might be to narrow the > scope down a little more. I think the testing and GeoClue project > might have been a little too ambitious and although we did have pretty > excited students we saw no progress at all. > > If you have ideas for projects just feel free to add to the wiki. We > should strive to get all project ideas finalized by the middle of > February, latest the end of February. Hopefully towards the end of > February we can see who would be willing to mentor each project. > Google plans on starting to accept would-be-mentor organization > applications on March 8th so we'll need our ideas finalized well > before that so we can send them as suggestions to the Linux Foundation > to see if we can get a few good project candidates accepted. > > [1] http://groups.google.com/group/google-summer-of-code-discuss/browse_thread/thread/d839c0b02ac15b3f > [2] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/GSoC/2009 > [3] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/GSoC/2010 > > Luis > -- 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/