GSoC Organisations announced, Ganglia selected for 2014

Google has just published the list of organisations for Google Summer of Code 2014

It is no surprise that big projects like Debian and Fedora are all back again.

On the other hand, I am delighted to announce that the Ganglia project is participating this year. We have started publishing a list of project ideas and we are keen to start having discussion with potential students and anybody who would like to participate in our mentoring team. We have also invited the RRDtool community to be part of this big adventure because RRDtool is such a critical element of Ganglia's success.

My Debian project ideas

I've also published a couple of project ideas on the Debian wiki before the organisations were confirmed:

• Recursively building Java dependencies from source (automatically)
• WebRTC portal for the Debian community

As I am part of the admin team for Ganglia, these Debian projects can only go ahead if there are some additional mentors willing to participate in them. Please contact me if either of these projects is interesting for you. You don't have to be a Debian Developer to be a mentor for Debian. Given the highly generic nature of these projects, particularly the Java one, they could also be mentored under the umbrella of another organisation. The Java project is particularly suitable for any Linux distribution or project relying on many JARs and all distributions and Java users are likely to extract some benefit from it.

Deadlines approaching

GSoC works on a strict calendar, please see the dates here if you would like to participate as a mentor, co-mentor or student.