linux-kernel - Re: Google's Summer of Code?

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Message-ID: <20080304152303.2a041814@cuia.boston.redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 4 Mar 2008 15:23:03 -0500
From:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
To:	"Alexey Zaytsev" <alexey.zaytsev@...il.com>
Cc:	"Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Linux kernel mailing list" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@...il.com>
Subject: Re: Google's Summer of Code?

On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 23:05:34 +0300
"Alexey Zaytsev" <alexey.zaytsev@...il.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 10:55 PM, Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi> 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
> >  <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> 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 :)

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