Nouveau - Mar 2019 - X.Org GSoC 2019 - Student Application Period

I'm happy to announce that the X.Org Foundation has been chosen to
participate in this year's GSoC program!

Students have from now until April 9th to submit their proposals.

Students will be looking at https://www.x.org/wiki/SummerOfCodeIdeas/ and
https://www.x.org/wiki/ToDo/ for ideas. Please take a moment to review those
lists to see:

- are these valid ideas?
- should items be removed?
- are there items that can be added?

Also, please consider signing up to mentor. All the student enthusiasm in the
world can't be put to any use if there are no mentors. A mentor only needs
to
provide technical direction and grading, all other aspects of the program will
be handled by myself.

If you have any updates to the ideas pages or are interested in mentoring,
please get in touch!

Students:

Application requirements:
 * Applicants meet Google's requirements for participation in Summer of
Code.
 * Applicants are in regular and close contact with their X.Org mentors and the
community (IRC, email)
 * Applicants know their target programming language.
 * Applicants must successfully upstream a simple patch to demonstrate they know
the process.
 * Applicants are willing to blog weekly and interact with the community
(failure to do so will result in a fail at the next review)

Check out https://www.x.org/wiki/GSoCApplication/ for information about how to
apply.

[-everyone except nouveau]

Just looked over the projects... they all seem valid, but are there
people who could realistically mentor a GSoC student for these? IMHO
unless mentors can be identified, these should all be archived.

Cheers,

  -ilia

On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 10:32 AM Trevor Woerner <twoerner at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> I'm happy to announce that the X.Org Foundation has been chosen to
> participate in this year's GSoC program!
>
> Students have from now until April 9th to submit their proposals.
>
> Students will be looking at https://www.x.org/wiki/SummerOfCodeIdeas/ and
> https://www.x.org/wiki/ToDo/ for ideas. Please take a moment to review
those
> lists to see:
>
> - are these valid ideas?
> - should items be removed?
> - are there items that can be added?
>
> Also, please consider signing up to mentor. All the student enthusiasm in
the
> world can't be put to any use if there are no mentors. A mentor only
needs to
> provide technical direction and grading, all other aspects of the program
will
> be handled by myself.
>
> If you have any updates to the ideas pages or are interested in mentoring,
> please get in touch!
>
> Students:
>
> Application requirements:
>  * Applicants meet Google's requirements for participation in Summer of
Code.
>  * Applicants are in regular and close contact with their X.Org mentors and
the community (IRC, email)
>  * Applicants know their target programming language.
>  * Applicants must successfully upstream a simple patch to demonstrate they
know the process.
>  * Applicants are willing to blog weekly and interact with the community
(failure to do so will result in a fail at the next review)
>
> Check out https://www.x.org/wiki/GSoCApplication/ for information about how
to apply.
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On Tue 2019-03-26 @ 10:40:49 AM, Ilia Mirkin wrote:
> Just looked over the projects... they all seem valid
Thank you for taking the time to have a look and provide feedback!
> but are there
> people who could realistically mentor a GSoC student for these? IMHO
> unless mentors can be identified, these should all be archived.
Attracting mentors is probably the hardest part of running GSoC. Perhaps if a
student shows interest in a given topic, someone might be inspired to sign up
as a mentor?

Keeping the list of ideas up-to-date and finding mentors are the two things
I'm hoping to make a noticeable improvement to this year. It also ties in
strongly with:

	https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freedesktop/freedesktop/issues/76

Best regards,
	Trevor