Hi all,

Just to let you know, I created a combined landing page for the next Outreachy 
and GSoC rounds at http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round12%2B2016GSoC 
<http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round12+2016GSoC>
I will be chasing owners of projects to see whether these are still applicable. 
And of course new projects are also welcome. Please add them to the respective 
pages, or propose them against this thread.

Also, for Hypervisor projects, I created 
http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Outreachy/Hypervisor 
<http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Outreachy/Hypervisor> which still has to be 
populated based on suggestions from past mentors. What we agreed on, is to add
a) Some blurb on HW recommendations and how to check and then to get back to 
the project owner with a log to make sure the applicant has the hardware to 
work on the correct project
a.1) What is unresolved due to uncertainty of general viability and debugging 
issues, is whether we should recommend nested virt as a development environment 
(either locally, or in a VM that the project could get for an applicant) 
b) A test that checks whether an applicant has been able to build xen from 
source and run xen: the idea is to ask them to insert a debug statement into 
the code and then provide the log as proof. This seems to have been one of the 
big hurdles for many applicants, that have struggled
c) More information on what to ask for in terms of bite-size projects

Best Regards
Lars

> On 9 Feb 2016, at 12:36, Lars Kurth <lars.kurth....@gmail.com 
> <mailto:lars.kurth....@gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> GSoc mentor organisation applications are opening and as such we need to get 
> our project list into shape: the current list of projects are at 
> http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_Development_Projects 
> <http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_Development_Projects> and 
> https://github.com/mirage/mirage-www/wiki/Pioneer-Projects 
> <https://github.com/mirage/mirage-www/wiki/Pioneer-Projects>
> 
> The application deadline is Feb 19th, by which we need to have a good list of 
> projects.
> 
> I also wanted to address some challenges we had around Hypervisor projects 
> and necessary hardware and track that in the GSoc landing page, which I will 
> put together based on conversations with mentors
> 
> So what we need is:
> a) Weed out any old and stale projects (of which we have a few)
> b) Add some new ones, if appropriate
> 
> I will also need a co-administrator for the GSoC application
> 
> Best Regards
> Lars

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