Dear all,
I am now predominantly interested in general feedback on this idea rather than jumping straight into technicalities of how to divide students and such. So do people like this idea? Should we proceed with it?
I definitively support this idea. Actually, I have been discussing it with Jakub for several months already and we originally planned to discuss it with others during FOSDEM. But there is no reason to hesitate now, of course. My two cents: * I think we can host the information pages and also the idea page of the umbrella organization on the microkernel.info website. I believe it is a suitable quasi-neutral location. * We should discuss whether we will encourage or discourage the participating organizations in the umbrella organization to also submit their individual GSoC applications. I personally think that there is nothing wrong with that, but as already said many times, nobody outside Google actually knows what are the Google's criteria for selecting the organizations into GSoC, thus anything could harm our chances in principle. * My original suggestion was to name the umbrella organization after microkernel.info. I acknowledge that naming it after the devroom has its appeal -- it is a more physical, tangible entity. However, I would also like to suggest that the umbrella should not be limited to those organizations that actively participate or have participated in the devroom, but it should be open to any project which could be considered a microkernel OS (by a broad definition). Any objections against that? [On the other hand, I believe that the active devroom participants will form the "hard core" of the umbrella :)] Best regards Martin Decky