[MinnowBoard] GSoC 2015 - Is there interest?

[John Hawley]

In a more general sense I've gone ahead and started the bare bones page at

http://elinux.org/Minnowboard:GSoC2015

if you've got an idea and are willing to mentor, add it and talk to me
about it.  I have some extra requirements on how I run GSoC orgs:

- We generally group mentor, so you'll never be off on your own as a mentor
- I require IRC interviews with students (we've found this exceedingly
helpful in the past)
- We require weekly check-ins with the students

Beyond that I'm pretty flexible.  I'm going to get some of my ideas up,
sounds like Michael's got one as well.  Hopefully there's some more
ideas out there!

- John

On 02/08/2015 01:12 PM, Michael Jones wrote:
> John,
> 
> This will not be broadly interesting, but… just in case there is another crazy out there...
> 
> If any student wanted to work on an open source Haskell PMBus Library for MinnowBoardMax running Ubuntu, I’d be happy to mentor. I have working starter code I can donate so they don’t have to start from scratch, and documentation on how to build up a system, install the compilers, etc.
> 
> I am sure there aren’t too many functional programmers that are into embedded stuff, but if there is one out there, I am happy to mentor. Perhaps some student that is into robotics at a school with some functional programming classes and research going on. Some previous Haskell experience is a must.
> 
> Google does some functional programming, so they might have some interest. They also use PMBus.
> 
> Supporting projects might be to implement SMBALERT driver support for Atom. I think there is SMBALERT support for iMX. Haskell does not support ARM well, so completing SMBus support for Atom helps.
> 
> Mike
> 
> On Feb 8, 2015, at 12:15 AM, John Hawley <john.hawley at intel.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hey Everyone,
>>
>> So Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is fast approaching, and I wanted to
>> gauge interest in having the MinnowBoard project participate.  There's
>> two things that we would need to start figuring out about now: who is
>> interested in mentoring a student, and what projects do we have that
>> students could work on.  Some general ideas I've had that might be of
>> interest:
>>
>> - Integrate iPXE into the firmware load for the MinnowBoard MAX
>> 	Means pulling the existing Realtek driver out, integrating iPXE
>> 	into the existing Tianocore build system and making sure that
>> 	all works
>>
>> - Work on a kernel proposal to help make GPIO numbering more stable by
>> adding dsdt support and alternative names for gpios
>>
>> We've actually got a fairly broad range of things we could mentor for,
>> it's mostly a question of - what are people interested in seeing get
>> done for making MinnowBoard easier / better to use, and are their folks
>> interested in stepping up and mentoring?
>>
>> - John 'Warthog9' Hawley
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