GSoC topics (was Re: Thoughts about FOSDEM 2017)

Hello again,

• Martin Decky (HelenOS) briefly presented the idea of forming an open-source microkernel umbrella organization, i.e., to increase the chance of acceptance to GSoC. Admittedly, we (Genode Labs) haven't planned to apply to GSoC (we tried once but were rejected with no feedback). However, personally, I'd support the idea of a joint application of the larger community. Martin and Jakub proposed to use the FOSDEM devroom and thereby the same community that is behind microkernel.info as umbrella organization. This sounds sensible to me as this community already exists to the mutual benefit of everyone involved, and is open for everyone to join. I wonder, do you (the people of the Genode community) have an opinion about this idea, and GSoC in general?

the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) initiative of Jakub Jermar and Martin Decky prompted me to update Genode's "Challenges" page, which may be taken as the basis for GSoC topics:

http://genode.org/about/challenges

Cheers Norman