Hi all,
GSoC finished on 18 August and the students all received their results from Google on Friday. Each student worked on a different part of Ganglia and they have all made useful contributions to the project. There is a brief list of their projects on my own blog[1], more details will appear on their blogs over the weeks ahead. It is really exciting that some of them have expressed interest in continuing with some aspect of this work beyond the GSoC program. I just want to thank all those who contributed to the program. Unlike many of the other voluntary contributions that people make in free software, GSoC has a series of deadlines to ensure it runs efficiently within the students' summer. Thanks to everybody who made extra effort to ensure things worked within this rigid timetable. Special thanks to: - the mentors (Nick, Rajat, Robert) - my co-admins (Bernard and Nick) - all the prospective mentors who helped evaluate possible students - all the other developers and users who supported the students on the mailing list, IRC and Github feedback - all the students themselves: - Oliver - internal Ganglia metrics - Rana - NVIDIA GPU monitoring - Zhi An - JMXetric and gmetric4j - Chandrika - ganglia-nagios-bridge and PyNag - Plamen Dimitrov - RRD plugin for the R project and of course a big thanks Google, who have continued to pour money into this free software program for 10 years in a row. This year Ganglia was allocated five students and results were generally good. It is quite possible Google would select Ganglia to participate again in 2015 or a future year. I can't say for certain whether I will volunteer to be an admin for Ganglia in GSoC 2015. It would be useful to get feedback from people about whether Ganglia should apply for involvement again and who would like to join the mentoring team. Now might be a useful time to start thinking about whether another round of Ganglia GSoC will align with any of your business plans and objectives for 2015 and also be on the lookout for any opportunities to attract suitable students. Having these things worked out in advance makes it much easier when the official GSoC selection period begins. Regards, Daniel 1. http://danielpocock.com/help-needed-reviewing-ganglia-gsoc-changes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ _______________________________________________ Ganglia-general mailing list Ganglia-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-general
