On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 16:06:20 +0100 Alexander Graf <ag...@suse.de> 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.
