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Announcing NetBSD and the Google "Summer of Code" Projects 2008
April 21, 2008  For the fourth consecutive year, the NetBSD Project is

proud to participate in Google's "Summer of Code" program as a mentoring

organization and is pleased to announce the list of projects that have

been accepted for this summer. As in previous years, the task of

selecting a limited number of projects from over 50 student applications

wasn't easy. With almost as many mentors signed up as student

applications, ranking was done based on a number of criteria such as a

students knowledge, interest and enthusiasm, the scope and detail of the

proposal, the likeliness of the project succeeding etc.
In the end, the following projects were selected, listed in alphabetical

order by the student's last name:
    1. Project: Implement Ext3 file system support

       Student: Rus-Rebreanu Alin-Florin

       Mentor: Alistair Crooks
    2. Project: Create an in-kernel API for "packet classes"

       Student: Anish

       Mentor: Herb Peyerl
    3. Project: File system access utilities

       Student: Ysmal Arnaud

       Mentor: Antti Kantee
    4. Project: wscons: Expansion for wstablet in NetBSD

       Student: Jason W. Beaudoin

       Mentor: Petra Zeidler
    5. Project: Subfile Support for NetBSD

       Student: Adam Burkepile

       Mentor: Philip Nelson
    6. Project: Hurd translators

       Student: Marek Dopiera

       Mentor: Aymeric Vincent
    7. Project: Write and improve NetBSD LVM driver

       Student: Adam Hamsik

       Mentor: Brett Lymn
    8. Project: Implementation of RFC4380 (Teredo) in NetBSD

       Student: Arnaud Lacombe

       Mentor: David Young
    9. Project: Add support for UVC devices (USB web-cams)

       Student: Patrick Mahoney

       Mentor: Jared D. McNeill
   10. Project: DVB drivers and kernel framework

       Student: Jeremy Morse

       Mentor: Jared D. McNeill
   11. Project: pkgsrc: rewrite wrapper framework in C

       Student: Amitai Schlair

       Mentor: Johnny Lam
   12. Project: Improve syslogd

       Student: Martin Schuette

       Mentor: Christos Zoulas
   13. Project: Converting remaining regression tests to the Automatic Testing Framework

       Student: Lukasz Strzygowski

       Mentor: Julio Manuel Merino Vidal
   14. Project: Updated, customizable install tool for NetBSD

       Student: Zachary Wegner

       Mentor: Tim Rightnour
The NetBSD Project is proud and thankful to be awarded a significantly

increased number of slots by Google in this year's Summer of Code

compared to the previous years and all mentors will be working hard to

ensure the success of their projects. The distribution of projects may

provide our users with some interesting insights into the long-lasting

benefits of the Summer of Code program:
     o Two of the primary mentors in this year's Summer of Code were

       successful students themselves in previous years, passing the torch

       and allowing new students to benefit from the project in the same

       way they did.
     o Only three of the accepted students already are NetBSD

       developers, increasing the number of new potential developers

       (ie "new blood") introduced into the NetBSD community by 11.
     o Eight of the primary mentors in this year's Summer of Code have

       not mentored any projects in previous years, showing an increased

       interest in the developer pool to participate and guide students, to

       help shape new developers
In the next couple of days, the students will prepare their project

webpages, blogs and other outlets of information, introduce themselves

and their project to the NetBSD community during the community bonding

period before they start their exciting new work.
As in previous years, a number of very promising applications did not

make the cut, and the NetBSD Project would be very happy to accept

donations to make it possible to fund some of these projects outside the

Google Summer of Code program. Likewise, students are of course

encouraged to join the NetBSD community and work with us regardless of

immediate monetary benefits.
- -Jan Schaumann
The NetBSD Foundation
About NetBSD:
NetBSD, a free, secure, and highly portable descendant of the BSD UNIX

family, is one of the oldest open source operating systems. It is

available for many platforms, from 64-bit Opteron machines and desktop

systems to handheld and embedded devices. Its clean design and advanced

features make it excellent in both production and research environments;

its source is freely available under an unencumbering business-friendly

open source license. More information is available at

http://www.NetBSD.org/.
About Google's "Summer of Code":
To learn more about Google, the ``Summer of Code'' and other Open Source

projects within Google, visit http://www.google.com,

http://code.google.com/soc/ and http://code.google.com.
The NetBSD Foundations ``Summer of Code'' project page is available at

http://NetBSD-SoC.sourceforge.net/.
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