Re: Google's Summer of Code?

[Pekka Enberg]

Hi Linus,

On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Pekka Enberg wrote:
>  > Are there any plans to send an application of Linux kernel as a mentor
>  > organization for Google's Summer of Code this year? I think there are
>  > probably a lot of students interested in hacking on the kernel. And
>  > no, I am not volunteering to send that application but I would be
>  > interested in being a mentor.

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 9:35 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  We haven't done it before (afaik), and I don't think we've had anybody
>  sign up to suggest a project and mentor it. It's probably worth talking to
>  people in other projects that have done the gsoc thing before.
>
>  And no, I'm not going to do that "mentor organization" application thing
>  either, but there's bound to be *somebody* who wants to do it. Maybe it
>  could even be done as part of the Linux-foundation drive (currently LSB
>  and OpenPrinting, no kernel projects). See
>
>         https://www.linux-foundation.org/en/Google_Summer_of_Code
>
>  and maybe we can add a kernel thing to there.

Well, to that particular someone out there, please let me know where
to sign up as a mentor. I am also wondering if such a high profile
project as the kernel can get away with not having a "project ideas"
list which would make things real easy for the administrator(s)...

                                 Pekka
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