[libvirt] GSoC 2017

Martin Kletzander mkletzan at redhat.com
Thu Jan 5 08:20:27 UTC 2017


On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 09:37:44AM +0100, Michal Privoznik wrote:
>Hey,
>
>so we are approaching opening date for submitting orgnaization
>applications [1]. In order to have perfect application we need to show
>Google a list of ideas that students can work on (like they couldn't
>google it up, right? ;-)). You can find the list here [2]. Let me ask
>you kindly to go through it and:
>
>a) add whatever idea you feel is appropriate,
>b) if you have an idea but don't feel like mentoring, leave the 'Mentor'
>field empty and I will find somebody.
>
>There is still plenty of time left (I'll probably fill out the
>application form at the end of the month), but please don't leave it
>until the last hour.
>
>There were some changes to the program discussed on the Mentor Summit,
>but I don't see anything announced yet, so stay tuned. As for our
>organization, historically we had 1:N mapping of mentors and students
>(one mentor could have had one or more students). But last year we tried
>out 2:1 mapping and I found it better so probably we will stick to
>co-mentoring this year too (as everything, it's recommended not required).
>

I totally vote for 2:1, but keep in mind that for this to work perfectly
we need to *start* with it, not start 1:1 and then add the second one
later.  Ideally the second mentor should be there since the start of the
interview, IMHO.

>Happy new year!
>
>Michal
>
>1: https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline
>2: http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Google_Summer_of_Code_2017
>
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