Thanks Marc for the kickoff mail! We (everybody else) should do a little bit more than we have done yet to make this happen ;)
I'd like to participate as student again, rather doing a flashrom than a coreboot project, but we will see. I talked to Carl-Daniel and he will not have time to really mentor anybody (but me, due to obvious reasons (there was very little mentoring going on the first time) ;)
If there would be another student interested in flashrom I would be able and like to mentor him. Sadly, doing both is not possible... at least not officially. I am not sure how to solve this yet (e.g. by registering as mentor only after we have found a suitable student), but OTOH I fear it will not be a problem anyway (i.e. lack of interest in flashrom).
I'll try to figure out some more flashrom project ideas, talk with Carl-Daniel and update our last year's page (http://flashrom.org/GSoC) and help with the cb wiki too.
I think it would be a good idea to gather information on who wants to help and how, therefore... http://www.coreboot.org/GSoC#People_involved Maybe we could also schedule an IRC meeting of these, maybe in the next days?
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 10:17 AM, Stefan Tauner stefan.tauner@student.tuwien.ac.at wrote:
Thanks Marc for the kickoff mail! We (everybody else) should do a little bit more than we have done yet to make this happen ;)
I'd like to participate as student again, rather doing a flashrom than a coreboot project, but we will see. I talked to Carl-Daniel and he will not have time to really mentor anybody (but me, due to obvious reasons (there was very little mentoring going on the first time) ;)
If there would be another student interested in flashrom I would be able and like to mentor him. Sadly, doing both is not possible... at least not officially. I am not sure how to solve this yet (e.g. by registering as mentor only after we have found a suitable student), but OTOH I fear it will not be a problem anyway (i.e. lack of interest in flashrom).
I'll try to figure out some more flashrom project ideas, talk with Carl-Daniel and update our last year's page (http://flashrom.org/GSoC) and help with the cb wiki too.
I think it would be a good idea to gather information on who wants to help and how, therefore... http://www.coreboot.org/GSoC#People_involved Maybe we could also schedule an IRC meeting of these, maybe in the next days? -- Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner
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Hi Stefan,
As you are currently a student, you should take advantage of the program as a student. I appreciate your offer to mentor and we will certainly lean on you for support for flashrom (gsoc or not).
Thanks for adding http://www.coreboot.org/GSoC#People_involved.
Without more interest from mentors, I don't think that we(I) will apply. Honestly, I don't want to go through the effort of the application if we don't have a good backing of mentors, projects, and documentation to attract students. I am looking to our community to help attract new developers to coreboot. Mentoring isn't hard work, but it does take attention every week and we must start now. We need to work on our wiki and project planning. We need to help students become more successful with coreboot by laying out some of the details and anticipating the difficulties members have. The lack of interest is is a bit ironic, as we have had more contributions to coreboot than ever before. coreboot on shipping devices from AMD, Google, and others. Honestly, I'm disappointed that we can't identify good projects and guidance for new firmware developers. (This is something I struggle with myself). Without good complete project ideas, applying for GSoC is pointless.
Org application deadline is March 29th.
Please put forward coreboot, flashrom, and payload ideas.
Regards, Marc
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