Hi On Tue, Jan 6, 2026 at 1:47 AM Stefan Hajnoczi <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear QEMU and KVM communities, > QEMU will apply for the Google Summer of Code internship > program again this year. Regular contributors can submit project > ideas that they'd like to mentor by replying to this email by > January 30th. > > About Google Summer of Code > ----------------------------------------- > GSoC (https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/) offers paid open > source remote work internships to eligible people wishing to participate > in open source development. QEMU has been doing internship for > many years. Our mentors have enjoyed helping talented interns make > their first open source contributions and some former interns continue > to participate today. > > Who can mentor > ---------------------- > Regular contributors to QEMU and KVM can participate as mentors. > Mentorship involves about 5 hours of time commitment per week to > communicate with the intern, review their patches, etc. Time is also > required during the intern selection phase to communicate with > applicants. Being a mentor is an opportunity to help someone get > started in open source development, will give you experience with > managing a project in a low-stakes environment, and a chance to > explore interesting technical ideas that you may not have time to > develop yourself. > > How to propose your idea > ------------------------------ > Reply to this email with the following project idea template filled in: > Rather than replying to this mail, I sketched some ideas of things I have in mind on the wiki directly: https://wiki.qemu.org/Internships/ProjectIdeas/RDPUSB https://wiki.qemu.org/Internships/ProjectIdeas/VFIOUSER https://wiki.qemu.org/Internships/ProjectIdeas/ModernHMP https://wiki.qemu.org/Internships/ProjectIdeas/mkosiTestAssets I will try to reach the various people involved in those related projects to see if they are reasonable proposals. We have a lot of ideas on the wiki ( https://wiki.qemu.org/Internships/ProjectIdeas/), that have various status.. I wonder if they wouldn't be better under qemu.git docs/ with some form, so we could send patches to discuss them instead. Arf, a QEMU Enhancement Proposal, I have too much ideas :)
