Re: Call for GSoC and Outreachy project ideas for summer 2022

From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>,
	qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	"libvir-list@redhat.com" <libvir-list@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark Kanda <mark.kanda@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: Call for GSoC and Outreachy project ideas for summer 2022
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2022 18:52:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f7dc638d-0de1-baa8-d883-fd8435ae13f2@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJSP0QX7O_auRgTKFjHkBbkBK=B3Z-59S6ZZi10tzFTv1_1hkQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 1/28/22 16:47, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> Dear QEMU, KVM, and rust-vmm communities,
> QEMU will apply for Google Summer of Code 2022
> (https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/) and has been accepted into
> Outreachy May-August 2022 (https://www.outreachy.org/). You can now
> submit internship project ideas for QEMU, KVM, and rust-vmm!
> 
> If you have experience contributing to QEMU, KVM, or rust-vmm you can
> be a mentor. It's a great way to give back and you get to work with
> people who are just starting out in open source.
> 
> Please reply to this email by February 21st with your project ideas.

I would like to co-mentor one or more projects about adding more 
statistics to Mark Kanda's newly-born introspectable statistics 
subsystem in QEMU 
(https://patchew.org/QEMU/20220215150433.2310711-1-mark.kanda@oracle.com/), 
for example integrating "info blockstats"; and/or, to add matching 
functionality to libvirt.

However, I will only be available for co-mentoring unfortunately.

Paolo

> Good project ideas are suitable for remote work by a competent
> programmer who is not yet familiar with the codebase. In
> addition, they are:
> - Well-defined - the scope is clear
> - Self-contained - there are few dependencies
> - Uncontroversial - they are acceptable to the community
> - Incremental - they produce deliverables along the way
> 
> Feel free to post ideas even if you are unable to mentor the project.
> It doesn't hurt to share the idea!
> 
> I will review project ideas and keep you up-to-date on QEMU's
> acceptance into GSoC.
> 
> Internship program details:
> - Paid, remote work open source internships
> - GSoC projects are 175 or 350 hours, Outreachy projects are 30
> hrs/week for 12 weeks
> - Mentored by volunteers from QEMU, KVM, and rust-vmm
> - Mentors typically spend at least 5 hours per week during the coding period
> 
> Changes since last year: GSoC now has 175 or 350 hour project sizes
> instead of 12 week full-time projects. GSoC will accept applicants who
> are not students, before it was limited to students.
> 
> For more background on QEMU internships, check out this video:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNVCX7YMUL8
> 
> Please let me know if you have any questions!
> 
> Stefan
> 