On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 02:59:07PM +0200, Simos Xenitellis wrote:
Hi All,
Here are some details for those that may be interested in taking part
in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2015 or one in a subsequent year.
Here is the page for GSoC 2015,
https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2015
Here is the page with the timeline (deadlines),
https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2015
GSoC is a project by Google that runs every year since about ten years
ago, and provides financial support for work on open-source projects.
It requires different open-source projects to apply as organizations
so that they can then accept students to work for them (the
open-source projects) over a period of three months during the summer.
The students get US$5500 and the mentor from the organization gets
US$500.
A prospective student needs to be a university student (tertiary
education in general). There is no limitation as to what cource they
are studying. They need to show proof that they are University
students in around May.
Last year, Emilio applied for GSoC through the organization Linux
Foundation and had Maxime as his mentor,
http://linux-sunxi.narkive.com/VYmpmy4Q/improve-allwinner-socs-support-on-mainline-linux
Sadly, this year the Linux Foundation was not accepted as an organization,
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/gsoc/google-summer-code-2015
In addition, Linaro, which also took part in GSoC 2014, was not
accepted this year.
This makes it a bit more difficult to find a suitable host
organization for linux-sunxi.
The list of the 2015 organizations is at
https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/list/public/google/gsoc2015
One option could be X.Org Foundation for graphics-related tasks.
X.Org was accepted for 2015.
Their list of project ideas is at http://www.x.org/wiki/SummerOfCodeIdeas/
They mention relevant projects such as accelerated video decoding for
some NVidia SoCs (Maxwell Accelerated Video Decoding), so it might
be viable to add something even for CedarX.
For this to work, it requires:
1. one or more students to volunteer to undertake such relevant projects.
2. a mentor to volunteer to oversee the work.
3. communication with the X.Org Foundation to accept the project in
their allocation of funded projects
The hard deadline for students to apply is Friday, 27th March 2015.
Simos
Yet another instance of you trying to play santa with other peoples
work? Have you even talked to the Xorg board members who are working on
this?
Let me ping my friend mupuf and find out.
Luc Verhaegen.
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