Interest in Contributing to FreeBSD

From: Islam Imad <islamimad404_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2025 04:53:05 UTC
Dear FreeBSD Team,
My name is Islam Imad, a computer science student at Suez Canal University
(Egypt).
I am very interested in operating systems. I have been learning about
operating systems and low-level programming, and I want to apply my
knowledge through open-source contributions.
I have taken the Operating Systems course from the University of Wisconsin
and studied Operating Systems: *Three Easy Pieces*. As part of this, I
implemented several related projects, including a Unix shell, an
interpreter, a heap memory allocator, and a MapReduce model.

In addition, I actively practice competitive programming—I have solved more
than 3000 problems across different online judges (candidate master on
Codeforces) and participated in on-site contests such as the Arab and
African Collegiate Programming Contests, which helped me strengthen my
problem-solving and algorithmic thinking skills.
I would greatly appreciate your guidance on how I can start contributing to
FreeBSD, and how best to align my skills with ongoing projects or future
GSoC opportunities.
Best regards,
Islam Imad
GitHub: https://github.com/Islam-Imad
Email: islamimad404@gmail.com