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>From: Jim Grisanzio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] Google Summer of Code: Call for
OpenSolaris Participation
>To: Peter Tribble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Peter Tribble wrote:
On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 19:34, Jim Grisanzio wrote:
Ben opened a page on the Genunix wiki:
http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/Summer_of_Code
I accidentally went to www.genuix.org. Hm.
A couple of points:
I'm not sure that content or marketing count. Or localizatio
On 4/20/06, Jim Grisanzio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks, Justin. My understanding is that Simon Phipps has applied for
> Sun's projects and that he's been interacting with Google. I've cc'd him
> here.
The right folks on Google's end are looking into this.
Thanks! -- justin
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Justin Erenkrantz wrote:
On 4/20/06, Jim Grisanzio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Great ideas for OpenSolaris participation in the Google Summer of Code,
guys. The list of participating organizations at Google's site is
growing, but so far OpenSolaris is not approved yet. I think we need one
page t
On 4/20/06, Jim Grisanzio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Great ideas for OpenSolaris participation in the Google Summer of Code,
> guys. The list of participating organizations at Google's site is
> growing, but so far OpenSolaris is not approved yet. I think we need one
> page to list all these proj
On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 19:34, Jim Grisanzio wrote:
>
> Ben opened a page on the Genunix wiki:
> http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/Summer_of_Code
I accidentally went to www.genuix.org. Hm.
A couple of points:
I'm not sure that content or marketing count. Or localization/i18n.
Google expli
Great ideas for OpenSolaris participation in the Google Summer of Code,
guys. The list of participating organizations at Google's site is
growing, but so far OpenSolaris is not approved yet. I think we need one
page to list all these project ideas to show Google what we have to
offer (many orga
Jim Grisanzio wrote:
hey, guys.
Google has announced its 2006 Summer of Code:
http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html
I am sure OpenSolaris based distributions like SchilliX, Nexenta and
BeleniX would have a lot of projects to offer.
I just spoke to Moinak, he is keen on putting Belen
Jim Grisanzio wrote:
hey, guys.
Google has announced its 2006 Summer of Code:
http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html
Since X.Org is participating directly, we will probably focus X
efforts via their projects, to benefit the entire X community.
The current X.Org suggestion list is at:
Young Song wrote:
Jim,
I18n community could potentially offer some localization projects.
Localization includes translation (from English to various languages)
and functional/linguistic testing. Any subset thereof or all can be
potential projects, if students are interested.
Excellent, thank y
Jim,
I18n community could potentially offer some localization projects.
Localization includes translation (from English to various languages)
and functional/linguistic testing. Any subset thereof or all can be
potential projects, if students are interested.
There wasn't a detailed discussion on o
I exchanged some mail with Eric Schrock recently and he gave me some
ideas about how the ZFS guys could potentially participate in this. From
Eric: here are some ZFS suggestions of varying complexities:
- new compression algorithms
- new checksum algorithms
- block allocation visualization/opti
> "MP" == Michael Pogue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
MP> I think that it would be a great Summer of Code project, to
MP> investigate what it would take to get full utilization (32 CPU's) on
MP> a T1000 building Open Solaris. And then, contribute the changes
MP> back to OpenSolaris, speeding up
Michael Pogue wrote:
I'm not suggesting a new OpenSolaris Project, although that
would certainly be one way to do it. I'm just suggesting a Google
Summer of Code project.
Ok, that seems reasonable. It doesn't have to be tied to something we
already have set up.
If it ends up being just one
Tom Erickson wrote:
Sounds like fun. I'm the Chime project owner, and I think Chime is a
good fit for a student who likes programming in Java. It's a new
project, so there's lots of ways it can be improved :-) For example
- A student interested in data visualization could gain experience with
The Content Project would like to offer our services to this effort. We
could potentially mentor a student working on some coding project in one
of the other projects or communities. Perhaps that student could write
up something on the subject and go through the peer-review process for
an artic
>> The Chime project will be a good introduction to DTrace. Some of the
>> ideas above may require expertise from the community or a more specific
>> problem statement. Anyone who has tried the tool and has a suggestion,
>> please share it.
>
> better tooling/visualization on top of DTrace is de
Dan Price wrote:
I don't see why there has to be a 1:1 mapping between opensolaris
projects and SoC ideas.
No need at all, really. I just tossed that out as a starter because we
already have 40 communities and 20 projects going and those leaders may
want/need help from student developers o
> - A student interested in data visualization could gain experience with
> JFreeChart, a SourceForge project used by Chime, and design some new
> display types besides the existing bar and line graphs.
> - There's a client/server prototype optionally used by Chime that
> someone could replac
Sounds like fun. I'm the Chime project owner, and I think Chime is a
good fit for a student who likes programming in Java. It's a new
project, so there's lots of ways it can be improved :-) For example
- A student interested in data visualization could gain experience with
JFreeChart, a Sourc
Jim Grisanzio wrote:
Michael Pogue wrote:
I have a suggestion: in another current thread, "Build times for Open
Solaris", there's discussion about build parallelism on a Niagara
(T1000), and how we don't get much benefit in build time beyond 4 CPUs.
I think that it would be a great Summer o
I'm not suggesting a new OpenSolaris Project, although that
would certainly be one way to do it. I'm just suggesting a Google
Summer of Code project.
If it ends up being just one Summer of Code student that takes this on,
then a full-blown OpenSolaris Project for one person might be overkill.
In
I'm not sure yet which internal Sun group could do this. But, since this could potentially improve
the build process for everybody, I think that figuring this out would be very much worth it. I'm
willing to help!
Since Niagara is one of the first machines with this much on-chip parallelism (b
On Mon 17 Apr 2006 at 02:24PM, Jim Grisanzio wrote:
>
> Michael Pogue wrote:
> >I have a suggestion: in another current thread, "Build times for Open
> >Solaris", there's discussion about build parallelism on a Niagara
> >(T1000), and how we don't get much benefit in build time beyond 4 CPUs.
>
Michael Pogue wrote:
I have a suggestion: in another current thread, "Build times for Open
Solaris", there's discussion about build parallelism on a Niagara
(T1000), and how we don't get much benefit in build time beyond 4 CPUs.
I think that it would be a great Summer of Code project, to inv
Hi Mike,
This looks to be a good project. Student should get access to T1000
box. Which group within Sun can give T1000 access to student?
thanks
M.Sridhar
Michael Pogue wrote On 04/17/06 01:59 PM,:
I have a suggestion: in another current thread, "Build times for Open
Solaris", there's
Michael Pogue wrote:
I have a suggestion: in another current thread, "Build times for Open
Solaris", there's discussion about build parallelism on a Niagara
(T1000), and how we don't get much benefit in build time beyond 4 CPUs.
I just retracted that statement... It does improve with more
pa
I have a suggestion: in another current thread, "Build times for Open Solaris", there's discussion
about build parallelism on a Niagara (T1000), and how we don't get much benefit in build time beyond
4 CPUs.
I think that it would be a great Summer of Code project, to investigate what it would
hey, guys.
Google has announced its 2006 Summer of Code:
http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html
This is the second summer where Google has engaged student developers
worldwide to participate on a variety of open source projects under this
mentoring program. OpenSolaris has applied to be one
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