I am very proud because I have great news: we have 3 students joining the flashrom community to do projects!
Aarya will be doing a GSoC project “Optimize Erase-Function Selection” with Thomas (Mentor), Simon (backup Mentor) and Nikolai.
Chinmay will be doing a GSoC project “Refactor arguments parser” with Felix (Mentor), Anastasia (backup Mentor) and Evan.
Joursoir is joining as an independent contributor and will be working on a project “Restructure shutdown functions and remove global state” with me and Thomas. This will be a more open-ended project and largely a continuation of the effort I was doing last year.
Anyone who is also interested in supporting the projects and our students, yes please, you are very welcome! :)
Aarya, Chinmay, Joursoir,
it would be really great if you can join the next flashrom dev meeting on 2nd June, so that we can say hello to each other! Info in this thread: https://mail.coreboot.org/hyperkitty/list/flashrom@flashrom.org/thread/5EMHJ...
Between today and 2nd June you will be talking to your Mentors and discussing project plans in more detail. Please prepare: look at the timeline (https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline) and tell if you plan for example vacations so that we can adjust the project schedule.
You will have a conversation with your Mentor(s) once a week. You will need to post to the mailing list at least once a week, to share with the community what’s going on your project.
Remember if you have any questions, you can always ask your Mentor(s) and/or me or Felix. Especially if you are confused, not sure what to do: keep calm and talk to your Mentor(s) or Admin(s).
So, what to do now? Celebrate! ;) And then prepare for next week's conversation with your Mentors.
Good Luck!