On 24/04/2012, at 9:41 PM, Mo Morsi <
mmorsi@redhat.com> wrote:
> Hey all, I want to congratulate and introduce everyone to Samridh whose
> proposal [1] was selected to work on Aeolus as part of the Google Summer
> of Code.
>
> I also want to introduce Nitesh and Furhan, who'se Aeolus proposals [2]
> [3] were also very strong but unfortunately were not selected due to the
> limited number of slots we had available in the GSoC. Nitesh graciously
> volunteered to still dedicate some time to help us out with the project
> over the summer which is more than appreciated. I would like to thank
> them both for their hard work on their proposals up to this point (all
> three have been in regular contact to learn and setup the Aeolus
> framework and determine what the project needs going forward).
>
>
> Matt and I are starting to work with them to implement their strategies
> to contribute to the project. Samridh is going to start by looking at
> expanding aeolus-cli, currently we have image support and Martyn / Petr
> are now adding support for providers and provider accounts. As part of
> the GSoC project we will continue expanding this to support hardware
> profiles, instances, and other conductor entities.
>
> Nitesh is going to be working towards implementing a QT based
> desktop-interface to the conductor API. He will begin by setting up a
> new project on github w/ the basic QT application layout and expanding
> it from there to support Conductor capabilities. He will also be looking
> at expanding the conductor API to add new features as needed.
>
> Overall I'd like to welcome them to the project and am looking forward
> to helping drive there proposals and projects forward and continuing to
> expand the community, especially at the student / collegiate level. You
> may notice some traffic from them via email and irc in the upcoming
> weeks / month, and I ask that when possible the existing developers help
> them out with any questions they may have in getting familiar w/ our
> design, implementation, and contributor workflow.
>
> Should be a great Summer of Aeolus! :-)
>
> -Mo
>
>
> [1]
>
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GSOC_2012/Student_Application_Samridh90/Bringing_the_Cloud_to_the_Fedora_Desktop
>
> [2]
>
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GSOC_2012/Student_Application_niteshnarayan/Bringing_the_Cloud_to_the_Fedora_Desktop
>
> [3]
>
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GSOC_2012/Student_Application_furhanshabir