On 04/14/2015 10:33 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 04/13/2015 03:26 AM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: >> Hi, >> >> <https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2015> states >> that by 13Apr "Mentoring organizations should have requested slots via >> their profile in Melange by this point. " >> >> This would mean that a long list of possible proposals and a short >> list of "we must have these students for our organization" proposals >> need to exist. >> >> Looking over the submissions, it would seem that a possible long list >> would include (in no particular order): >> >> + A Single installer ISO that delivers a functional Xen4 stack on CentOS 6 >> >> Gautam has participated in a couple of discussions and responded to >> mentor's (George) queries >> >> + Implement and create new documentation toolchain >> >> Both Lei Yang and Kunal have provided well thought out proposals and >> have responded to mentor feedback >> >> + Develop a kpatch delivery mechanism >> >> Vladislav and Louis have been involved in conversations and responded >> to questions from mentor >> >> + RootFS Build Factory for CentOS >> >> Mandar has worked on the proposal and seems to have put in effort to >> create a good scope >> >> + On Premise Vagrant Boxes Hosting System >> >> I would defer to the mentor about whether this proposal is well scoped and ready >> >> + Cloud in a box >> >> There is a proposal from Asad which has been reviewed by Rich as well scoped. >> >> Comments, feedback would be appreciated. Karsten, do you have an >> estimate of the number of slots to request? >> >> /sankarshan >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > Lightweight Cloud Instance Contextualization Tool by Tamer Tas :: i > dont see this in the list, he's had a good solid proposal as well, did > he not make the list ? > > CC'ing in Haikel for comments. > > > - KB > > > This is the proposal he put together: https://gist.github.com/TamerTas/4da68c6eba31f53b4790 A couple of things : - he is pretty clear about the problem space - he has demonstrated an ability to execute ( he actually wrote up some PoCs ) - he's clearly used the cloud before, and has a reasonable understanding around cloud-init codebase ( and cloudbase-init ) if we can, we should include him. I'd say he's a strong 'will get it done' candidate. -- Karanbir Singh, Project Lead, The CentOS Project +44-207-0999389 | http://www.centos.org/ | twitter.com/CentOS GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc