[cab-discuss] GSoC

[Jim Grisanzio]

Garrett D'Amore wrote On 02/19/07 03:50,:
> As hopefully everyone knows by know, GSoC is on.  I am hoping that we
> can get the OGB elections done quickly, because I believe setting up
> GSoC projects should be one of the early priorities for the new OGB.
> 
> I wasn't privy to how last year's GSoC for OpenSolaris was run (last
> year I was a mentor for NetBSD).  Did the project provide project
> suggestions for students, or were the proposals purely student suggested?
> 
> It might be nice to have some ideas for students to look at.
> 


Hi ...


Last year there were three threads on this that I know of:

http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=7878&tstart=0
http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=7866&tstart=0
http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=7962&tstart=0

Things were rushed last year, but we decided to pool our ideas as one 
community and apply for x projects, rather than having the individual 
communities within OpenSolaris apply separately.

After the conversations, we applied for 10 projects, and we were awarded 
two: http://code.google.com/soc/opsol/about.html

Idea wiki: http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/Summer_of_Code

 From what the mentors and students said afterwards, the two projects 
seemed to be successful, as well.

I think if the OpenSolaris community were to participate in this program 
again this year, someone would have to start a conversation about it on 
opensolaris-discuss, some ideas would have to be flushed out, a strategy 
of engagement agreed upon, etc. I'm not sure the OGB could be a 
"mentoring organization" under the SoC rules (as I remember them from 
last year), but I suppose the Board could appoint someone or request 
someone from Sun to serve in that role. In other words, I think the 
mentoring organization has to be a legal organization, but I haven't 
read this year's rules.

Jim