[Gluster-users] GSOC-2014 and the Gluster community

[Kaushal M]

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