Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756101Ab0A1XPw (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:15:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755781Ab0A1XPv (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:15:51 -0500 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.157]:7600 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755589Ab0A1XPu (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:15:50 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=B8niujvszzxz8XP5YDIohS7vcjSS9X2e57XkPuRXVYgXFcGInwketOm0cXLMW5tWnr 7SkuiwKNbh8dgx+UFGwUqahwrC1HiZPh0Za+7b0h8UKB8o5jS4U2xqCbmvC2zsHGI4Ix uue4Se0+gi2I1OJsIWRlx4N41txrnw341QsmA= Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:15:47 +0100 From: Frederic Weisbecker To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: linux-wireless , Till Kamppeter , Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lsb-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org, Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: Linux wireless GSoC 2010 project ideas Message-ID: <20100128231545.GH18683@nowhere> References: <43e72e891001281338u5f05307ble5360c3dac6ab9a2@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43e72e891001281338u5f05307ble5360c3dac6ab9a2@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3461 Lines: 67 On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 01:38:27PM -0800, 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 I'm sorry if I'm a bit off-topic. But as I see this announce, I'm wondering about the topics for the google summer of code in the wider scope of the entire kernel. I'm a student and there are fair chances I'll be free for this summer so I start to think about applying. Are there currently some plans concerning other kernel areas? That doesn't mean I wouldn't be interested in a wireless project :) but there are many other areas that could host a Gsoc project too and I don't want to miss the whole variety of proposals. I guess we also can, as applying students, propose subjects too. Provided we find a mentor for the given project, which makes the things harder in this direction I fear. Anyway, what would be the right place to submit such proposals? I have various ideas in mind, in topics such as tracing/profiling, realtime, among other things... (could be: "Do as much bkl bashing as you can in two months, have fun, be brave..."). Thanks. -- 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/