Adding gluster-users as well. On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 6:44 PM, Kaushal M <kshlmster at gmail.com> wrote:> We haven't had any noise regarding GSOC this year in the Gluster > community and haven't done anything regarding it so far (AFAIK). > > The student registration for GSOC-2014 is closing on 21st March [1], > so we still have a little over 1 week to do something. > > Ideally, with Gluster progressing from a project to an organization > with multiple projects, we'd have liked to participate as our own > organization this time, but it isn't possible. We can still > participate as a project under the Fedora umbrella, as we've done > previously. > > There are already two entries for GlusterFS in the Fedora ideas page > for GSOC-2014 [2]. These have been copied over from the previous year. > As these were skipped over last year, I feel that these ideas weren't > particularly attractive to the students. > > This mail is a call to the community for new ideas (could be something > from the trello backlog board [3]) and for mentors for these ideas, > and after we have these done a publicity drive. > > Let's try to whatever is possible now to get on the GSOC train this year. > > ~kaushal > > [1] - https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2014 > [2] - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_coding_ideas_for_2014#Applications_for_programmers > [3] - https://trello.com/b/mczS4DKw/glusterfs-backlog