On 2014-04-24 08:19, Jan Kiszka wrote: > On 2014-04-23 11:25, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: >> Dear QEMU, Libvirt, and KVM communities, >> We are participating in Google Summer of Code 2014 >> (http://google-melange.com/) and Outreach Program for Women >> (http://opw.gnome.org/). Both programs fund candidates to work on our >> open source projects for 12 weeks this summer. > > To follow up on this: I'm currently looking for optional tiny "warmup" > tasks for our QEMU students during the bonding period (till May 18). If > you have any trivial issues or extensions in mind that someone could > address within a few days or even hours, that would be perfect. It could > even be something like "reformat the printing of these messages" or so. > > We used this mechanism last year with the KVM student quite > successfully. The idea is to give the student very early a chance to get > in contact with the community and with the patch submission & review > procedure. So the focus is more on dealing with patches than on solving > a technical problem in QEMU. If all works fine, this should encourage > her/him to work with the community right from the beginning, ask > question, post things early etc.
Thanks for all these suggestion so far! I personally wasn't able to look into them in details yet. A wish to the mentors and students: if someone picks up a task, please drop a note here so that we can avoid duplicate work! Jan
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