Hi I think writing a Container Storage Interface (CSI) for Kubernetes could be a good idea. Regards
On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 1:00 PM Giles Sirett <giles.sir...@shapeblue.com> wrote: > Hi all > > It would be great if the CloudStack project were able to get a few Google > Summer of Code [1] students this year to work on projects within our > community. We've had a number of previous GSoC students (examples at [2] ), > who have worked on innovative features/ projects within cloudstack and have > then gone on to become significant contributors to Cloudstack . > > > In order to be able to attract students to work on Cloudstack, we need 2 > things: > > 1. A number of candidate projects for students to work on. Students > browse all GSoC the candidate projects and choose one that interests them- > effectively every organisation is competing for the students interest. > These projects therefore need to be reasonably interesting looking projects > to attract potential students. The students spend approximately 9 weeks > coding, so the projects need to be appropriately scaled > 2. Somebody prepared to mentor the student throughout the duration of > the project (usually the person who suggests the project) > > The student application period starts 29 March [3] > The ASF has registered itself as a mentor organisation with Google , > allowing individual Apache projects to list candidate projects for > students to work on. A wiki page [4] has been created at the ASF level to > allow ASF projects to list their ideas for students > > > I'm happy to coordinate this from a Cloudstack perspective. > If others are happy with this approach, then I ask for two things at this > stage: > > > 1. Could people suggest appropriate projects. This could be a piece of > integration that you've always considered and not got around to or could be > an improvement that you've always wanted to do. If people can reply to this > thread with ANY ideas, it would be a good start (irrespective of whether > you wish to be a mentor or not) > 2. At the same time, could people say whether they'd be prepared to be > a student mentor or not > > > > > [1] https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/ > > > [2] > > https://blog.netapp.com/blogs/mentoring-with-google-summer-of-code-and-lessons-in-cloudstack/ > https://dzone.com/articles/cloudstack-google-summer-code > > https://opensource.googleblog.com/2014/07/gsoc-students-create-google-compute.html > > > [3]https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/how-it-works/#timeline > > [4] > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/COMDEV/GSoC+2021+Ideas+list > > > > Kind regards > Giles > > > giles.sir...@shapeblue.com > www.shapeblue.com > 3 London Bridge Street, 3rd floor, News Building, London SE1 9SGUK > @shapeblue > > > >
