LTTng

h1. Google Summer of Code 2015

Google Summer of Code is a global program that offers students stipends to write code for open source projects. 

The LTTng project will participate in GSoC for a third year in 2015!

h1. Guidelines for students applying to GSoC

Here a few guidelines and advice for aspiring applicants to GSoC:

* *Submit* your application to Google by *March 27 2015 19:00 UTC*.

* *Join* the IRC #lttng channel on OFTC (irc://irc.oftc.net/lttng) to discuss your application and project ideas.

  Since IRC and the "mailing list":http://lists.lttng.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lttng-dev are our usual means of communication, applicants who have shown initiative in reaching out to the community will be favored during the applications review process.

To get involved in the LTTng project, see our "community page":http://lttng.org/community/#getting-involved!

* *Subscribe* to the lttng-dev "mailing list":http://lists.lttng.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lttng-dev.

* *Break the ice!* Try submitting a patch for simple issues such as typos, documentation improvements or simple bug fixes

> * The LTTng "bug tracker":http://bugs.lttng.org/projects/lttng/issues?sort=priority%2Cid%3Adesc is a good starting point.

* *Give the toolchain a try* with some of your personal projects and show us a use case (performance issue, ease of debugging, etc.) that *your* project idea would solve.

* *Read the LTTng "blog":http://lttng.org/blog* for inspiration.

Perhaps you have ideas to improve LTTng''s usability? Discuss them with us, you might just have found yourself a summer project! 

*Don''t panic!* Some parts of the LTTng project can be quite daunting. We don''t expect applicants to be familiar with all the concepts behind the LTTng codebase. We''re always happy to help.

Additional tips for a successful application: "The DOs and DON’Ts of Google Summer of Code: Student Edition":http://google-opensource.blogspot.de/2011/03/dos-and-donts-of-google-summer-of-code.html

h1. Project Ideas

*Coming soon!*