Hi Mark,

We did, not enough and just a bit too late. ;)

A few people started the trend (including me), but we didn't have enough
organization to propose a good number of interesting projects in time. Most
of the comments was about the quality of the work and the time spent on
mentoring being too much.

This year, I followed the work of some students on the LLVMLinux group and
the mentoring time spent was very little. The results of other LLVM
projects (ex. Flang) speak for themselves. I wanted to reiterate that the
benefits of the GSOC almost always outweigh the costs, even if the project
is not successful, but most are.

It's good to have corporate backing (ie. you ;), and I think we should
start planning for the next year much sooner (maybe even during the US
Connect) and have some incentive plan to foster mentors inside Linaro. It's
a great way to involve the community in working with Linaro towards the
common goal, and to recruit candidates in subsequent years with proven
track with Open Source *and* Linaro.

cheers,
--renato



On 23 September 2013 13:57, Mark Orvek <mark.or...@linaro.org> wrote:

> Renato,
>
> We did apply to GSOC this year but our proposal was not selected.  I
> agree, we should apply again next year.
>
> Mark
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 5:38 AM, Renato Golin <renato.go...@linaro.org>wrote:
>
>> One example of the kind of results that come from a GSOC project:
>>
>> http://flang-gsoc.blogspot.ie/2013/09/end-of-gsoc-report.html
>>
>> Might be worth thinking about it next year?
>>
>> cheers,
>> --renato
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