Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 4 Mar 2008 21:55:14 +0200 | From | "Pekka Enberg" <> | Subject | Re: Google's Summer of Code? |
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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@linux-foundation.org> 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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