Microkernel devrom as an umbrella organization in GSoC 2017

[Vasily A. Sartakov]

I am in.


> I originally wanted to bring this up at FOSDEM, but since the
> applications for the mentoring organizations to GSoC 2017 have already
> opened [1], I am expediting my question.
> 
> <TL;DR>
> Do you think that the microkernel projects that meet in the Microkernel
> devroom at FOSDEM every year, could and should try to do the Google
> Summer of Code 2017 together under the umbrella of the Microkernel devroom?
> </TL;DR>
> 
> To me this makes perfect sense. Let me elaborate. In the past the
> individual projects had mixed luck with being accepted into GSoC. While
> the reasons for not accepting a project in any given year may differ
> from project to project, I think the underlying reason is that there
> would simply be too many mentoring organizations representing operating
> system projects in general, and also too many microkernel operating
> system projects in particular. Instead, I think the trend should be to
> reduce the number of these mentoring organizations and group the
> projects under a single umbrella organization. For microkernels this
> umbrella organization could be the Microkernel devroom.
> 
> I have the impression that Google strongly prefers umbrella
> organizations over small individual projects such as ours. I simply
> believe we have bigger chance to get in together as an umbrella
> organization than as individual projects (even though that is, of
> course, possible too).
> 
> Some of you already use an umbrella organization to have basically a
> guaranteed access to the GSoC, but why not support this idea anyway and
> have your ideas list linked from two umbrella organizations?
> 
> The Microkernel devroom is an already established common entity
> promoting our common cause. Let us use its auspices also for Google
> Summer of Code and, in case of success, also the GSoC Mentor Summit.
> 
> 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?
> 
> [1]
> https://opensource.googleblog.com/2017/01/now-accepting-organization-applications.html

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Vasily A. Sartakov
sartakov at ksyslabs.org




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