Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU was not selected for Google Summer of Code this year

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 10:11 PM, François Revol <address@hidden> wrote:
> On -10/01/-28163 20:59, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>> Sad news - QEMU was not accepted for Google Summer of Code 2012.
>>
>
> Shame, there is so much to do.
>
>> Students can consider other organizations in the accepted
>> organizations list here:
>>
>> http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/accepted_orgs/google/gsoc2012
>>
>> The list is currently not complete but should be finalized over the
>> next few days as organizations complete their profiles.
>
> I just heard Haiku is on the accepted list.
>
> Last year a student worked on finishing the VirtualBox guest additions I
> started writing:
> https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/scgtrp/2011-09-05_vbox_guest_additions_slightly_late_final_progress_report
>
> It should be possible to come up with a project involving QEMU on Haiku
> if anyone is interested.
> While there is an existing QEMU port, I'm not sure in what state it
> currently is.
>
> QEMU proved useful to Haiku developers up to now, cf.
> http://revolf.free.fr/beos/quf-haiku-qemu-abstract.pdf

Thanks François.  Just like QEMU was planning to offer libvirt and kvm
an umbrella org, it may well be possible for students to do
QEMU-related projects for other orgs.

>>
>> Students and mentors who wanted to participate with QEMU will be
>> disappointed.  I am too but there are many factors that organizations
>> are considered against, we have not received information why QEMU was
>> rejected this year.
>
> Well, ReactOS tried and failed several times to be accepted without
> being given any reason, if that is of any comfort.

Yep, we will definitely try next year.

Stefan