Hi John, On 10 February 2015 at 19:29, John Hawley <[email protected]> wrote: > > In a more general sense I've gone ahead and started the bare bones page at > > http://elinux.org/Minnowboard:GSoC2015 > > if you've got an idea and are willing to mentor, add it and talk to me > about it. I have some extra requirements on how I run GSoC orgs: > > - We generally group mentor, so you'll never be off on your own as a mentor > - I require IRC interviews with students (we've found this exceedingly > helpful in the past) > - We require weekly check-ins with the students > > Beyond that I'm pretty flexible. I'm going to get some of my ideas up, > sounds like Michael's got one as well. Hopefully there's some more > ideas out there!
I added an idea, let me know if it seems suitable. Regards, Simon > > > - John > > On 02/08/2015 01:12 PM, Michael Jones wrote: > > John, > > > > This will not be broadly interesting, but… just in case there is another > > crazy out there... > > > > If any student wanted to work on an open source Haskell PMBus Library for > > MinnowBoardMax running Ubuntu, I’d be happy to mentor. I have working > > starter code I can donate so they don’t have to start from scratch, and > > documentation on how to build up a system, install the compilers, etc. > > > > I am sure there aren’t too many functional programmers that are into > > embedded stuff, but if there is one out there, I am happy to mentor. > > Perhaps some student that is into robotics at a school with some functional > > programming classes and research going on. Some previous Haskell experience > > is a must. > > > > Google does some functional programming, so they might have some interest. > > They also use PMBus. > > > > Supporting projects might be to implement SMBALERT driver support for Atom. > > I think there is SMBALERT support for iMX. Haskell does not support ARM > > well, so completing SMBus support for Atom helps. > > > > Mike > > > > On Feb 8, 2015, at 12:15 AM, John Hawley <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Hey Everyone, > >> > >> So Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is fast approaching, and I wanted to > >> gauge interest in having the MinnowBoard project participate. There's > >> two things that we would need to start figuring out about now: who is > >> interested in mentoring a student, and what projects do we have that > >> students could work on. Some general ideas I've had that might be of > >> interest: > >> > >> - Integrate iPXE into the firmware load for the MinnowBoard MAX > >> Means pulling the existing Realtek driver out, integrating iPXE > >> into the existing Tianocore build system and making sure that > >> all works > >> > >> - Work on a kernel proposal to help make GPIO numbering more stable by > >> adding dsdt support and alternative names for gpios > >> > >> We've actually got a fairly broad range of things we could mentor for, > >> it's mostly a question of - what are people interested in seeing get > >> done for making MinnowBoard easier / better to use, and are their folks > >> interested in stepping up and mentoring? > >> > >> - John 'Warthog9' Hawley > >> _______________________________________________ > >> elinux-MinnowBoard mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.elinux.org/mailman/listinfo/elinux-minnowboard > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > elinux-MinnowBoard mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.elinux.org/mailman/listinfo/elinux-minnowboard > > > _______________________________________________ > elinux-MinnowBoard mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.elinux.org/mailman/listinfo/elinux-minnowboard _______________________________________________ elinux-MinnowBoard mailing list [email protected] http://lists.elinux.org/mailman/listinfo/elinux-minnowboard
