[CentOS-gsocadmin] Proposal short-list and slots for organizations

Tue Apr 14 09:38:14 UTC 2015
Karanbir Singh <kbsingh at centos.org>

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):
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>> +  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
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>> + 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
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> 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.

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