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Applying to Google Summer of Code

Borrowed from See for more advice. Actual application page is


How does a mentoring organization apply?

The organization should choose a single administrator to submit its application via the GSoC web app between March 9-13, 2009.

Philip Balister has agreed to be the administrator. Jason Kridner and Cathy Wicks will help prepare the application.

What should a mentoring organization application look like?

Link ID


Group Name

Home Page URL

Public Email


Describe your organization. is a volunteer community behind building powerful, open, and embedded devices based on the OMAP3530. The vision is to enable much lower-power and lower-cost computing platforms that can be embedded into designs with confined spaces, limited batteries, and innovative user interfaces (web browsers available in every situation). The design is "open source hardware" with all of the schematic, bill-of-materials, layout, etc. shared for building other devices. The software is open source software generated by the community, such as the Angstrom Distribution, Ubuntu, and other Linux distributions. Compiler tools are free and the board is available at a low cost.

Texas Instruments sponsors some related activities and the first members of the community were TI employees, but the collaboration base is now over 1,400 members on the mailing list and almost 3,000 individual developers having purchased development hardware around the world. Existing projects include 3 different Android builds, Ubuntu, Angstrom, FFmpeg, MythTV, and much more (about 40 projects registered at

Why is your organization applying to participate in GSoC 2009? What do you hope to gain by participating?

We hope to grow our developer base, allowing for and stimulate interest in embedded and heterogeneous multi-core software development environments that provide long-term power and performance advantages over the limited use cases of desktop and mobile computers.


What is the main IRC channel for your organization? #beagle



No, did not participate in past GSoCs.


No, did not apply for past GSoCs.

What license(s) does your project use?

For this project, we should use new and simplified BSD.


What is the URL for your ideas page?


About you

  1. What is your name?
  2. What is your email address?
  3. What is your eLinux wiki username?
  4. What is your IRC nickname?

About your project

  1. What is the name of your project?

You and the community

  1. If your project is successfully completed, what will its impact be on the community? Give 3 answers, each 1-3 paragraphs in length. The first one should be yours. The other two should be answers from members of the community, at least one of whom should be a GSoC mentor. Provide email contact information for non-GSoC mentors.


  1. We want to make sure that you can set up a development environment before the summer starts. Please post an image of your running BeagleBoard on Flickr to the BeagleBoard group and provide a link. If you need a board, please send indicate so in your application and, if approved, we'll loan you a board to complete this portion. Please feel free to visit our IRC channel, #beagle on, and ask for help.
  2. Is there anything else we should have asked you?

What is your plan for dealing with disappearing contributors?

What is your plan for dealing with disappearing members?




Cathy Wicks <c-wicks ti com>