gsoc: Add summary of GSoC Kick-off meeting, May 27, 2024

Signed-off-by: Razvan Deaconescu <[email protected]>

discussions/gsoc/2024-05-27.md

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+datetime: 2024-05-27T17:00:00+02:00
+location: Online, Discord (https://bit.ly/UnikraftDiscord), the `#monkey-business` voice channel
+teams:
+  - gsoc
+participants:
+  - Răzvan
+  - Sergiu
+  - CristiV
+  - RăzvanV
+  - RaduN
+  - ȘtefanJ
+  - Cezar
+  - Luca
+  - MariaP
+  - Spriprad
+  - Ujjwal
+  - Yang
+  - Mihnea
+---
+
+### Agenda
+
+- GSoC'24 schedule
+- Mentor and mentee intro
+- Unikraft development process
+- Mentor / mentee expectations
+- General project development & resources: meetings, channels, communication, (draft) PRs
+- Q&A
+- (Technical) Project breakout rooms
+
+### Discussions
+
+Timeline:
+
+* https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline
+* https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2024
+
+Public:
+
+* https://github.com/unikraft/gsoc/blob/staging/gsoc-2024/ideas.md
+
+Resources:
+
+* periodic online live meetings
+* `meeting-notes` repository: https://github.com/unikraft/meeting-notes/tree/staging/discussions/gsoc
+  * keep a meeting summary
+* Discord channel
+* GitHub
+  * GitHub projects
+  * repository (source code)
+  * draft PRs (source code, discussions)
+
+Contributions:
+
+* submission / review process: https://unikraft.org/docs/contributing/
+  * PRs: run `checkpatch.pl`, properly test, provide extensive details on issues
+* coding conventions: https://unikraft.org/docs/contributing/coding-conventions
+
+Expectations:
+
+* ask as often and as quick as possible questions on Discord, do not wait for meetings
+* be responsive to mentor requests for progress, technical questions, any other clarifications
+* announce a week before if a level of unavailability (vacation or anything else)
+* keep a good look on the project timeline and on GSoC'24 timeline (midterm evaluation, final evaluation)
+* provide feedback, suggestions to mentors if any sort of personal / technical issues
+* carefully read and follow the contributing and coding guidelines
+* create work early on (draft PRs, issues, documentation) and provide access to mentors
+* take part in:
+  1. GSoC project specific meetings
+  1. periodic technical meetings relevant to your project
+  1. community meeting - to be announced
+* be active in community: look at questions, provide support if able to
+* create a blog post once every 3 weeks (4 blog posts in total): https://github.com/unikraft/docs
+
+### TODOs and Decisions
+
+* Mentors: be part of periodic meetings with mentees
+* Mentors: keep active connections with mentees, ask them about 2-3 days how is it going, whether there are blocking points
+* Mentees: start working on projects
+* Mentees: have weekly time allocated for GSoC'24 starting with Monday, May 27, 2024 (the official start date)
+* Mentees: take part in relevant meetings; be active on Discord; create early / draft PRs
+* Mentees: create a blog post once every 3 weeks (4 blog posts in total): https://github.com/unikraft/docs
+* Mentors / Mentees: be pro-active in communicating with the other party
+* Mentees: (recommendation, not mandatory) keep logs of activities
+* RD: Schedule booting and synchronization-smp meeeting.
+* RD: Schedule community all hands on deck meeting.