Return-path: Received: from mail-px0-f182.google.com ([209.85.216.182]:60912 "EHLO mail-px0-f182.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752029Ab0A1XXi (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:23:38 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20100128231545.GH18683@nowhere> References: <43e72e891001281338u5f05307ble5360c3dac6ab9a2@mail.gmail.com> <20100128231545.GH18683@nowhere> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:23:15 -0800 Message-ID: <43e72e891001281523s56707279x896ab059e6d4e530@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: Linux wireless GSoC 2010 project ideas To: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: linux-wireless , Till Kamppeter , Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lsb-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org, Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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