Le 22 mars 2013 00:42, "Charles Plessy" <[email protected]> a écrit : > > Le Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 02:38:03PM +0100, olivier sallou a écrit : > > > > Student will need a cloud access for experiments, and this > > is unfortunately not free. > > Amazon provide a free (mini) instance but storage capacity of this small > > instance may be too limited for such experiments and setup. > > > > Does it include automatic image generation scripts (from a Debian > > desktop/server and not cloning an image) or "just" connecting to an Amazon > > instance, add some scripting and save as new image ? > > > > First solution would be a perfect solution (for me and others), but is more > > complex, expecially with amazon. > > > > If additional co-mentors are required for the project, I can help (if any > > student proposal is valid...). > > Hi Olivier and everybody, > > many thanks to all of you for proposing free access to Cloud infrastructures. > > For the Google Summer of Code 2013, the entry I placed on the web is a call > for a bottom-up proposal. If I fit as a mentor, I am intersted to mentor it. > If this call attracts a good student that matches better other mentors, I > will be happy to do nothing and use the resulting system at work :) And of > course I am totally open to co-mentoring. > > Some projects proposals this year are more top-down, and they only need to > attract a good student to get good chances to get a slot. With the call I > made, we need a good proposal made by a good student, which will be rarer. My > interest is to see what students can propose and use this as a starting point. > But if you have a clear vision of what could be done, please do not hesitate > (in consultation with the Debian GSoC team) to add a more detailed proposal. > Also, while I have a strong interest for bioinformatics in the Cloud, if at the > moment of giving slots, there is a stronger proposal for scientific computing > or image management, then it will make sense to select this one if slots are > few. I will not bite or rant; the key outcome should be a student who > succeeded and wants to keep contribute in Debian, regardless of what the > project produced. > > Lastly, I made the following addition to the wiki page. > > The project's deliverable must be useable on Free platforms, and the > proposal needs to explain which infrastructure[1] will be used during the > development. > > [1] https://lists.debian.org/caewx8osp6lu15cxg2tahntfmepvtlgwqg6jflvs8xri2w3t...@mail.gmail.com > > I hope it clarifies enough, and that the link will help the students to find > the propositions for sponsored access
Those sponsored access would be perfect for student/project (and it is cool to see so many offers for Debian, thanks to all). It must indeed be clear for students that they may make use of an infracstructure with no cost for the project. Thanks Olivier > > Cheers, > > -- > Charles Plessy > Debian Med packaging team, > http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med > Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] >
