[libvirt] Call for mentors and project ideas for Google Summer of Code 2016

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 11:13:16AM +0100, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> On 25.01.2016 18:28, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > The QEMU wiki page for Google Summer of Code 2016 is now available here:
> > 
> > http://qemu-project.org/Google_Summer_of_Code_2016
> > 
> > QEMU will apply for Google Summer of Code 2016 (https://g.co/gsoc/).
> > If QEMU is accepted there will be funding for students to work on
> > 12-week full-time open source projects remotely from May to August
> > 2016.  QEMU provides a mentor for each student who gives advice and
> > evaluates their progress.
> > 
> > If you have a project idea, especially if you are a regular
> > contributor to QEMU and are willing to mentor this summer, please go
> > to this wiki page and fill out the project idea template:
> > 
> > http://qemu-project.org/Google_Summer_of_Code_2016
> > 
> > The project ideas list is part of the application so that QEMU can
> > participate in GSoC.  It's useful to have your project ideas on the
> > wiki by February 8th 2016.
> > 
> > If you have any questions about project ideas or QEMU applying to
> > GSoC, please reply to this thread.
> 
> Hey Stefan,
> 
> so as we spoke earlier in person, I think it's time for libvirt to try
> and apply as a separate organization.

Great!

> I went ahead and created similar GSoC ideas page for libvirt:
> 
> http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Google_Summer_of_Code_2016
> 
> My question is, is qemu willing to back libvirt in case we don't get
> selected and if so, should we duplicate the idea list into qemu wiki too?

I'm worried that this would look like orgs trying to game the system.

Are there project ideas that involve both QEMU and libvirt changes?  For
those I think it's fair to have them in both org's lists.  Anything that
is purely QEMU or libvirt shouldn't be duplicated.

Stefan
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