Panel Discussion: Outreachy Linux Kernel Internship Report – Alison Schofield & Karolina Stolarek, Intel Corporation; Rebecca Mckeever, Collabora; Sevinj Aghayeva & Jaehee Park, University Students; Deepak Radhakishan Varma
Come learn about the great accomplishments of our Outreachy Linux Kernel interns! Outreachy offers open-source internships to people subject to systemic bias and impacted by underrepresentation in the technical industry where they are living. Alison Schofield, the Linux Kernel Community Coordinator, offers a program overview, followed by intern presentations showcasing their projects and experiences with Outreachy! Karolina Stolarek describes laying the groundwork for memblock simulator, a test suite for boot time memory allocator. Next, Rebecca Mckeever shares her work extending the memblock simulator to increase test coverage and usability. Sevinj Aghayeva and Jaehee Park each present their projects in the networking subsystem where they contributed API and self-test improvements. And Deepak Varma shares his experience using Coccinelle to improve the Linux Kernel. We are excited to have Outreachy mentors joining the virtual panel this year. Linux kernel experts Stefano Brivio, David Hildenbrand, Roopa Prabhu, Mike Rapoport, and Ira Weiny, offer reflections on the mentorship experience.
