[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD Summer of Code Projects Announced

[Murray Stokely]

The FreeBSD Project is pleased to announce its participation in the
Google "Summer of Code" program designed to introduce students to open
source software development.

The FreeBSD Project received over 350 applications, amongst which 18
projects have been selected for funding.

Unfortunately, due to the limited number of spots available, we were
unable to fund many first rate applications.  However, we encourage
students to work together with us all year round.  The FreeBSD Project
is always willing to help mentor students learn more about operating
system development through our normal community mailing lists and
development forums.  Contributing to an open source software project
is a valuable component of a computer science education and great
preparation for a career in software development.

More information about the student projects is available from the
FreeBSD Summer of Code Wiki here :

  http://wikitest.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/SummerOfCode2005

The Wiki will soon be updated with information about downloading the
work in progress with CVSup.

We'd like to close by thanking Google for their generosity and
congratulating the 18 talented students below.

- The FreeBSD Summer of Code Mentors

--

Student: Anders Persson <anders at cs.ucla.edu>
Summary: FreeBSD userland/kernel interface cleanups
Mentor:  Brooks Davis <brooks at FreeBSD.org>

Student: Andrew Turner <andrew at fubar.geek.nz>
Summary: Integrate BSD Installer
Mentor:  re@, ru@, jhb@

Student: Brian Wilson <polytopes at gmail.com>
Summary: UFS Journalling
Mentor:  scottl@

Student: Chris Jones <chris.jones at ualberta.ca>
Summary: Gvinum 'move', 'rename', etc..
Mentor:  le at FreeBSD.org, phk at FreeBSD.org

Student: Christoph Mathys <cmathys at bluewin.ch>
Summary: Rewriting CVSup in C, the Csup project
Mentor:  mux at FreeBSD.org

Student: Csaba Henk <csaba.henk at creo.hu>
Summary: SSH based networking filesystem
Mentor:  scottl at FreeBSD.org

Student: Dario Freni <saturnero at freesbie.org>
Summary: FreeSBIE integration
Mentor:  murray at FreeBSD / re at FreeBSD.org

Student: Emiliano Mennucci <s223560 at studenti.ing.unipi.it>
Summary: pluggable disk scheduler
Mentor:  luigi at FreeBSD.org

Student: Ivan Voras <ivoras at gmail.com>
Summary: GEOM Journaling Layer (gjournal),
Mentor:  phk at FreeBSD.org, pjd at FreeBSD.org

Student: Jason Young <dintsoft at gmail.com>
Summary: powerd,
Mentor:  bruno at FreeBSD.org, njl at FreeBSD.org

Student: Michael Bushkov <bushman at rsu.ru>
Summary: nsswitch / caching daemon
Mentor:  brooks at FreeBSD.org, nectar at FreeBSD.org

Student: Paolo Pisati <p.pisati at oltrelinux.com>
Summary: improve libalias
Mentor:  luigi at FreeBSD.org

Student: R. Tyler Ballance <tyler at tamu.edu>
Summary: Implement MacOS launchd(8) for FreeBSD
Mentor:  murray at FreeBSD.org

Student: RuGang Xu <rugang at gmail.com>
Summary: K kernel meta-language project
Mentor:  gnn at FreeBSD.org, phk at FreeBSD.org

Student: Samy Al Bahra <samy at kerneled.org>
Summary: MAC
Mentor:  rwatson at FreeBSD.org

Student: Victor Cruceru <victor.cruceru at gmail.com>
Summary: SNMP monitoring
Mentor:  harti at FreeBSD.org

Student: Yanjun Wu <yanjun03 at ios.cn>
Summary: SEBSD
Mentor:  rwatson at FreeBSD.org

Student: Emily Boyd <emily at emilyboyd.com>
Summary: website improvements
Mentor:  murray at FreeBSD.org