Hi All, Here are some details for those that may be interested in taking part in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2015 or one in a subsequent year.
Here is the page for GSoC 2015, https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2015 Here is the page with the timeline (deadlines), https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2015 GSoC is a project by Google that runs every year since about ten years ago, and provides financial support for work on open-source projects. It requires different open-source projects to apply as "organizations" so that they can then accept students to work for them (the open-source projects) over a period of three months during the summer. The students get US$5500 and the mentor from the organization gets US$500. A prospective student needs to be a university student ("tertiary" education in general). There is no limitation as to what cource they are studying. They need to show proof that they are University students in around May. Last year, Emilio applied for GSoC through the organization "Linux Foundation" and had Maxime as his mentor, http://linux-sunxi.narkive.com/VYmpmy4Q/improve-allwinner-socs-support-on-mainline-linux Sadly, this year the Linux Foundation was not accepted as an "organization", http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/gsoc/google-summer-code-2015 In addition, Linaro, which also took part in GSoC 2014, was not accepted this year. This makes it a bit more difficult to find a suitable host organization for linux-sunxi. The list of the 2015 organizations is at https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/list/public/google/gsoc2015 One option could be "X.Org Foundation" for graphics-related tasks. X.Org was accepted for 2015. Their list of project ideas is at http://www.x.org/wiki/SummerOfCodeIdeas/ They mention relevant projects such as accelerated video decoding for some NVidia SoCs ("Maxwell Accelerated Video Decoding"), so it might be viable to add something even for CedarX. For this to work, it requires: 1. one or more students to volunteer to undertake such relevant projects. 2. a mentor to volunteer to oversee the work. 3. communication with the X.Org Foundation to accept the project in their allocation of funded projects The hard deadline for students to apply is Friday, 27th March 2015. Simos -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "linux-sunxi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
