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| Please see the [https://www.gnome.org/outreachy/ Outreachy homepage] for an introduction to the program. | Please see the [[https://www.gnome.org/outreachy/|Outreachy homepage]] for an introduction to the program. |
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| '''Round 12''' is coming up soon. It's too early to send patches to the outreachy kernel mailing list, but please consider working through the other parts of the tutorial if you are intersted in applying. | The application period for '''Round 17''' is '''now open'''! Please follow the [[https://kernelnewbies.org/OutreachyfirstpatchSetup| setup directions]] and complete the [[Outreachyfirstpatch|first patch tutorial]] before submitting patches to the mailing list. |
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| We are looking for round 11 [:OutreachySponsor:funding sponsors] and Linux kernel [:OutreachyMentor:mentors]. Please see the linked FAQ pages if you want to help out. | '''Important Update''' This year, applicants are expected to check their [[https://www.outreachy.org/apply/eligibility/|eligibility]] before getting started with patch submissions. |
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| Welcome Outreachy applicants! Our [:OutreachySponsor:round 11 sponsors] have generiously donated funds for internships for women, genderqueer, genderfluid, or genderfree people, and residents and nationals of the United States of any gender who are Black/African American, Hispanic/Latino, American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, or Pacific Islander to work on the Linux kernel. The kernel is the most basic layer of the Linux operating system. It encompasses many things: hardware drivers, filesystems, security, task scheduling, and much more. | Welcome Outreachy applicants! Our [[OutreachySponsor|round 17 sponsors]] have generously donated funds for internships for women, genderqueer, genderfluid, or genderfree people, and residents and nationals of the United States of any gender who are Black/African American, Hispanic/Latino, American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, or Pacific Islander to work on the Linux kernel. The kernel is the most basic layer of the Linux operating system. It encompasses many things: hardware drivers, filesystems, security, task scheduling, and much more. '''News''' This year, we ask that you send all patches to the appropriate staging driver maintainers, as well as to the outreachy mailing list. See [[FirstKernelPatch#submit+a+patch|Submit a patch]] for more information. '''For IIO patches, be sure to send them to linux-iio@vger.kernel.org''' |
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| The application period for Outreachy Round 11 is September 29 to November 2. Please fill your [https://live.gnome.org/OutreachProgramForWomen#Application_Process application] by '''November 2''', and complete your kernel patch by '''November 2''' also (7pm UTC on both dates). Applicants that do not complete the first patch will not be considered for an internship. Please take a look at our [:OutreachyApply:application FAQ] for more info on how to fill out your application. | The application period for Outreachy Round 17 is September 19, 2018 to November 6, 2018. Please fill your [[https://outreachy.gnome.org/|application]] by '''November 6''', and complete your kernel patch by '''November 6''' also (7pm UTC in both cases). Applicants that do not complete the first patch will not be considered for an internship. Please take a look at the [[https://www.outreachy.org/apply/|application FAQ]] for more info on how to fill out your application. |
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| * Join the [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/outreachy-kernel outreachy-kernel mailing list] * Join the #opw IRC channel on irc.gnome.org |
* Join the [[https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/outreachy-kernel|outreachy-kernel mailing list]] * Join the #outreachy IRC channel on irc.gnome.org |
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| * Read our [:OutreachyApply:instructions for applying], and apply by November 2. * Use our [:Outreachyfirstpatch:tutorial] to send in your first kernel patch by November 2. |
* Read our [[https://www.outreachy.org/apply/|instructions for applying]], and apply by November 6. * Use our [[Outreachyfirstpatch|tutorial]] to send in your first kernel patch by November 6. |
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| Some projects may have small tasks you can complete as part of the application process. '''Do not''' start on these tasks until after you complete the [:Outreachyfirstpatch:first patch tutorial] and Greg Kroah-Hartman has accepted at least ten of your cleanup patches and two of your patchsets. In order to ensure applicants aren't working on the same task, we need your help in coordinating who is working on what task. Please see the [:OutreachyTasks:Outreachy tasks page] for details before starting on a task! | Some projects may have small tasks you can complete as part of the application process. '''Do not''' start on these tasks until after you complete the [[Outreachyfirstpatch|first patch tutorial]] and Greg Kroah-Hartman has accepted at least ten of your cleanup patches and two of your patchsets. In order to ensure applicants aren't working on the same task, we need your help in coordinating who is working on what task. Please see the [[OutreachyTasks|Outreachy tasks page]] for details before starting on a task! |
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| = Round 11 projects = Round 10 projects are available [:OutreachyRound10:here]. For each project, if you click on the proposer's name, you may find more information. |
= Round 17 projects = Previous projects, from round 16 projects are available [[OutreachyRound16|here]]. For each project, if you click on the proposer's name, you may find more information. |
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| == ADXL377 Triple Axis Accelerometer IIO driver == ''Mentor:'': [:OctavianPurdila:Octavian Purdila], [:DanielBaluta:Daniel Baluta] |
== Adding support for stateless codecs in the Virtual Codec Driver (vicodec) == ''Mentor:'': Hans Verkuil and Helen Koike == dri-devel aka kernel GPU subsystem == ''Mentor:'': [[Daniel_Vetter|Daniel Vetter]], Mansi Navare and Harry Wentland == Improving stable patch testing in the Linux Kernel == ''Mentor:'': Sasha Levin == Improve Linux kernel support for running as a guest on the Hyper-V hypervisor == ''Mentor:'': Michael Kelley and Long Li == Enhance graphic experiences for Linux VMs on Hyper-V == ''Mentor:'': Haiyang Zhang |
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| A driver allows applications to communicate and control hardware devices. Each development cycle, driver changes account for more than a half of the total Linux kernel code changes. | |
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| The goal of this project is to write a driver for Analog Devices ADXL377 triple axis accelerometer using the Industrial I/O interface. In the first part of the project you will get familiar with the hardware and the IIO then implement raw readings from the device. After upstreaming the code we will enhance the driver with support for buffered readings, power management and interrupts. We will provide you the hardware setup necessary to test the driver. If you are applying to this project please make sure to solve the [:IIO_tasks:IIO tasks]. == Staging driver cleanup == ''Mentor:'': [:GregKH:Greg Kroah-Hartman] This project will dive into a few specific drivers in the staging tree, doing more than just basic code formatting cleanup. The goal will be to help change the code to make it acceptable for merging into the "real" portion of the kernel. If possible, hardware will be provided for the code being worked on. == nftables == ''Mentor:'': [:pablo:Pablo Neira Ayuso] nftables provides a replacement for the very popular {ip,ip6,arp,eb}tables tools. nftables reuses most of the Netfilter components such as the existing hooks, connection tracking system, NAT, userspace queueing, logging among many other features. So we have only replaced the packet classification framework. nftables comes with a new userspace utility ''nft'' and the low-level userspace library ''libnftnl''. The goal will be to help finish the translation layer software that converts from the iptables syntax to nftables, complete some simple missing features and fixing bugs whenever possible. For more information on nftables, please check: http://wiki.nftables.org == Ceph-related kernel code cleanup == ''Mentor:'': [:AlexElder:Alex Elder] The Ceph project implements a scalable and fault-tolerant network based storage system. Portions of Ceph reside in the Linux kernel, presenting either a block device or a file system interface backed by Ceph storage accessed over the network. This project involves doing cleanup of the Ceph-related kernel code. The work will range from very easy fixes (like typo's and coding style) to more more substantive (refactoring functions and source files). Typically this kind of work identifies bugs as well, and if so those will be fixed (or at least documented). More information can be found [:OutreachyProjects/CephCleanup:here]. == y2038 cleanup in drivers == ''Mentor:'' [:ArndBergmann:Arnd Bergmann] The concept of 'time' in Linux is encoded in many different ways, but the most common one is based on the 'time_t' type that counts the number of seconds that have passed since Jan 1, 1970. This type is currently defined as 'long', which on 32-bit systems is a signed 32-bit number that will overflow on Jan 19 2038 and likely cause existing systems to stop working, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem. On 64-bit systems, the problem is solved for the most part because 'long' is a 64-bit number that will not overflow for billions of years, but there are some important missing pieces such as file systems that store time in 32-bit quantities on disk as well support for 32-bit user space binaries running on 64-bit kernels. Solving this problem in general is a huge effort involving lots of changes in the kernel as well as in user space. This project focuses on the kernel side, can be nicely split up into many small subtasks and is a prerequisite for doing the user space changes. There are currently 2003 instances of 'time_t', 'struct timespec' and 'struct timeval' in the kernel, and we are going to replace all of them with other types. Any isolated in-kernel uses of these types can be replaced with 'ktime_t' or 'struct timespec64'. For any interface to user space (typically an ioctl command or a system call) that passes a data structure based on these types, we have to keep the existing interface working and introduce an alternative interface that can be used by newly built user space programs. [:y2038:] has a deeper introduction to the topic and will be updated with more detailed subtasks over time. == Project == ''Mentor:'': [:WikiName:Mentor names] Brief project description. |
Please check the [[https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/linux-kernel/| Linux kernel page]] on the Outreachy website for detailed project descriptions. |
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| * Join the [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/outreachy-kernel outreachy-kernel mailing list] * Join the #opw IRC channel on irc.gnome.org |
* Join the [[https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/outreachy-kernel|outreachy-kernel mailing list]] * Join the #outreachy IRC channel on irc.gnome.org |
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| * Read our [:OutreachyApply:instructions for applying], and apply by November 2. * Use our [:Outreachyfirstpatch:tutorial] to send in your first kernel patch by November 2. * After you have sent several cleanup patches and at least one patchset, choose a [:OutreachyTasks:small task] to complete. |
* Read our [[https://www.outreachy.org/apply/|instructions for applying]], and apply by October 30. * Use our [[Outreachyfirstpatch|tutorial]] to send in your first kernel patch by October 30. * After you have 10 cleanup patches and at least two patchsets, choose some [[OutreachyTasks|small tasks]] to complete. |
Outreachy (formerly FOSS Outreach Program for Women (OPW) and Project Ascend Alumni)
Please see the Outreachy homepage for an introduction to the program.
The application period for Round 17 is now open! Please follow the setup directions and complete the first patch tutorial before submitting patches to the mailing list.
Important Update This year, applicants are expected to check their eligibility before getting started with patch submissions.
Welcome Outreachy applicants! Our round 17 sponsors have generously donated funds for internships for women, genderqueer, genderfluid, or genderfree people, and residents and nationals of the United States of any gender who are Black/African American, Hispanic/Latino, American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, or Pacific Islander to work on the Linux kernel. The kernel is the most basic layer of the Linux operating system. It encompasses many things: hardware drivers, filesystems, security, task scheduling, and much more.
News This year, we ask that you send all patches to the appropriate staging driver maintainers, as well as to the outreachy mailing list. See Submit a patch for more information. For IIO patches, be sure to send them to linux-iio@vger.kernel.org
How to apply
The application period for Outreachy Round 17 is September 19, 2018 to November 6, 2018. Please fill your application by November 6, and complete your kernel patch by November 6 also (7pm UTC in both cases). Applicants that do not complete the first patch will not be considered for an internship. Please take a look at the application FAQ for more info on how to fill out your application.
If you are interested in being a Linux kernel intern, please:
Join the outreachy-kernel mailing list
- Join the #outreachy IRC channel on irc.gnome.org
- Join the #kernel-outreachy IRC channel on irc.oftc.net
Read our instructions for applying, and apply by November 6.
Use our tutorial to send in your first kernel patch by November 6.
Participating Linux kernel projects
Applicants for all projects should have basic experience with C or C++ and boolean algebra. Optionally, we would love it if you have basic operating system knowledge, know your way around a Linux/UNIX command line, and/or know the revision system called git. Please note that these three skills can be learned during the internship.
Some projects may have small tasks you can complete as part of the application process. Do not start on these tasks until after you complete the first patch tutorial and Greg Kroah-Hartman has accepted at least ten of your cleanup patches and two of your patchsets. In order to ensure applicants aren't working on the same task, we need your help in coordinating who is working on what task. Please see the Outreachy tasks page for details before starting on a task!
Round 17 projects
Previous projects, from round 16 projects are available here. For each project, if you click on the proposer's name, you may find more information.
Adding support for stateless codecs in the Virtual Codec Driver (vicodec)
Mentor:: Hans Verkuil and Helen Koike
dri-devel aka kernel GPU subsystem
Mentor:: Daniel Vetter, Mansi Navare and Harry Wentland
Improving stable patch testing in the Linux Kernel
Mentor:: Sasha Levin
Improve Linux kernel support for running as a guest on the Hyper-V hypervisor
Mentor:: Michael Kelley and Long Li
Enhance graphic experiences for Linux VMs on Hyper-V
Mentor:: Haiyang Zhang
Please check the Linux kernel page on the Outreachy website for detailed project descriptions.
Yeah, that sounds cool!
If you are interested in being a Linux kernel intern, please:
Join the outreachy-kernel mailing list
- Join the #outreachy IRC channel on irc.gnome.org
- Join the #kernel-outreachy IRC channel on irc.oftc.net
Read our instructions for applying, and apply by October 30.
Use our tutorial to send in your first kernel patch by October 30.
After you have 10 cleanup patches and at least two patchsets, choose some small tasks to complete.