Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755570Ab0A1XwJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:52:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755272Ab0A1XwI (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:52:08 -0500 Received: from mail-fx0-f215.google.com ([209.85.220.215]:47836 "EHLO mail-fx0-f215.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751465Ab0A1XwG (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:52:06 -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=C6jRXAeoOf00dBZCN/PR1DqGHA2Nv8D77kIyCszhGhV/t4DnM3hdURAlKj7czrEKZk zuwkY09V4EwNuXXZNBDSq1F8x1xDHEAQyW+syT7JIxz6L+OTI9Jmmla37iNpAv/X8Tee hPWuqtghTiyYcJqvdU3+G10HOYWLsFPaiTApw= Message-ID: <4B62231F.5080104@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:51:59 +0100 From: Till Kamppeter User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090817) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" CC: Frederic Weisbecker , linux-wireless , 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 References: <43e72e891001281338u5f05307ble5360c3dac6ab9a2@mail.gmail.com> <20100128231545.GH18683@nowhere> <43e72e891001281523s56707279x896ab059e6d4e530@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <43e72e891001281523s56707279x896ab059e6d4e530@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: 2042 Lines: 51 No problem for students to suggest topics. We are not restricted to wireless in terms of kernel. We support kernel projects in general. Please give your suggestion as answer to this e-mail, doing "Reply to all", as I am not a kernel export, the other participants of this thread should have a look at the student's project ideas and help finding mentors. Till Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: >> 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? > > These would be under the Linux Foundation umbrella, the wireless stuff > I just posted is just for wireless. I do not believe we have a common > forum yet for general linux stuff. Till? > >> 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. > > The LF projects will be posted on the LF site. > >> 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. > > I don't see why not. > >> 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..."). > > I'll let Till answer :D > > 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/