[Nouveau] [Piglit] X.Org GSoC 2019 - Student Application Period

[Ilia Mirkin]

[-everyone except nouveau]

Just looked over the projects... they all seem valid, but are there
people who could realistically mentor a GSoC student for these? IMHO
unless mentors can be identified, these should all be archived.

Cheers,

  -ilia

On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 10:32 AM Trevor Woerner <twoerner at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm happy to announce that the X.Org Foundation has been chosen to
> participate in this year's GSoC program!
>
> Students have from now until April 9th to submit their proposals.
>
> Students will be looking at https://www.x.org/wiki/SummerOfCodeIdeas/ and
> https://www.x.org/wiki/ToDo/ for ideas. Please take a moment to review those
> lists to see:
>
> - are these valid ideas?
> - should items be removed?
> - are there items that can be added?
>
> Also, please consider signing up to mentor. All the student enthusiasm in the
> world can't be put to any use if there are no mentors. A mentor only needs to
> provide technical direction and grading, all other aspects of the program will
> be handled by myself.
>
> If you have any updates to the ideas pages or are interested in mentoring,
> please get in touch!
>
> Students:
>
> Application requirements:
>  * Applicants meet Google's requirements for participation in Summer of Code.
>  * Applicants are in regular and close contact with their X.Org mentors and the community (IRC, email)
>  * Applicants know their target programming language.
>  * Applicants must successfully upstream a simple patch to demonstrate they know the process.
>  * Applicants are willing to blog weekly and interact with the community (failure to do so will result in a fail at the next review)
>
> Check out https://www.x.org/wiki/GSoCApplication/ for information about how to apply.
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