[Qemu-devel] Re: Google Summer of Code 2011

[Luiz Capitulino]

On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 16:06:20 +0100
Alexander Graf <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
> On 28.01.2011, at 21:10, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> 
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > GSoC 2011 has been announced[1]. As we were pretty successful last year,
> > I think we should participate again. I've already created a wiki page:
> > 
> > http://wiki.qemu.org/Google_Summer_of_Code_2011
> > 
> > We should now populate it with projects and people willing to be mentors
> > should say so (or just add a project)[2].
> > 
> > Also, I'd like to do something different this year, I'd like to invite
> > libvirt people to join. There are two ways of doing this:
> > 
> > 1. They join in the program as a regular mentoring organization, or
> > 
> > 2. They join with QEMU
> > 
> > The second option means that libvirt can suggest and run its own projects
> > (preferably with QEMU relevance), but from a GSoC perspective, the project
> > will be part of the QEMU org.
> 
> Keep in mind that every full org gets a free trip to the west coast for 2 
> people ;). So splitting up means we could almost do a mini-summit at the 
> google campus on google's expenses ;).

Actually, they have a limited budget and if you live too far (say, in Brazil),
the trip might not be 100% free :)

> Please coordinate that with Carol. Apparently traction for GSOC is declining 
> (according to last year's summit). So there might be plenty of available 
> slots this year. So I'd say sign up separately for now and if you don't get 
> accepted, just join forces with us!

Yes, that's a good plan and I fully agree that we get more benefits if we
apply separately. It's a call to libvirt's people.