Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:01:50 +0200 From: "Nick Barkas" <snb@freebsd.org> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Please welcome our Summer of Code Students Message-ID: <ea65dd980804240201y4980611cs51e39878e76f7dee@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080422075642.GA72273@freebsdmall.com> References: <20080422075642.GA72273@freebsdmall.com>
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Hi everyone I'm Nick Barkas, and will be working on making memory usage for dirhash dynamic. I'm a master's student studying scientific computing at Kungliga Tekniska h=F6gskolan (Royal Institute of Technology) in Stockholm. I have been using FreeBSD for several years and I am very happy to get this chance to spend a lot of time hacking on it, learning more about what goes on in the kernel, and hopefully making UFS2 faster. I also work for a game company called Three Rings Design based in San Francisco. We use FreeBSD for most of our servers there, and I do backend software engineering and system administration. Thanks! Nick On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 9:56 AM, Murray Stokely <murray@freebsd.org> wrote: > Google announced today that they are funding 21 of our Summer of Code > applicants (out of over 100 applications). We had at least 10 highly > competitive applications that were not funded by Google, and we've > encouraged some of those students to work on FreeBSD this summer > anyway. We are very much looking forward to working with these > students this summer on the chosen FreeBSD related projects. So > without further ado, the student/mentor pairs are : > > * Dynamic memory allocation for dirhash in UFS2, > Sean Nicholas Barkas, mentored by David Malone > * TCP/IP regression test suite, > Victor Hugo Bilouro, mentored by George Neville-Neil > * Improved Wine support under FreeBSD, > Eric Durbin, mentored by Kristofer Paul Moore (PC-BSD) > * Allowing for Parallel builds in the FreeBSD Ports Collection, > David Forsythe, mentored by Mark Linimon > * Implementation of MPLS in FreeBSD, > Ryan French, mentored by Kip Macy > * Audit Firewall Events from Kernel, > Diego Giagio, mentored by Christian S.J. Peron > * Embedded FreeBSD project, > James Andrew Harrison, mentored by Warner Losh > * FreeBSD auditing system testing, > Vincenzo Iozzo, mentored by Attilio Rao > * Multibyte collation support, > Konrad Jankowski, mentored by Diomidis Spinellis > * Porting BSD-licensed Text-Processing Tools from OpenBSD, > Gabor Kovesdan, mentored by Max Khon > * Reference implementation of the SNTP client, > Johannes Maximilian Kuehn, mentored by Harlan Stenn (NTP) > * Improving layer2 filtering in FreeBSD, > Gleb Kurtsov, mentored by Andrew Thompson > * DTrace Toolkit on FreeBSD, > LIQUN LI, mentored by John Birrell > * NFSv4 ACLs, > Edward Tomasz Napierala, mentored by Robert Watson > * Adding .db support to pkg_tools --> pkg_improved, > Anders Nore, mentored by Florent Thoumie > * 802.11 Fuzzing and Testing, > Aniket Patankar, mentored by Sam Leffler > * TCP anomaly detector, > Rui Alexandre Cunha Paulo, mentored by Andre Oppermann > * Ports license auditing infrastructure, > Alejandro Pulver, mentored by Brooks Davis > * VM Algorithm Improvement, > Mayur Shardul, mentored by Jeffrey Roberson > * Enhancing FreeBSD's Libarchive, > Anselm Strauss, mentored by Timothy Kientzle > * Porting FreeBSD to Efika SoC (PPC bring up), > Przemek Witaszczyk, mentored by Rafal Jaworowski > > We are still in the process of getting them signed up for perforce and > wiki accounts and such, but eventually the students will create > project pages describing their plans and progress at : > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2008 > > Most of the students are still busy with coursework at the moment, and > so this is a community bonding period before the summer work is > supposed to begin. In the mean time if you want to send a note to > congratulate them you can mail them all at soc-students@FreeBSD.org. > > Thanks to everyone (over 60 committers registered this year!) that > helped review the student applications, and especially thanks to > Google for this significant investment in the the FreeBSD development > community. > > - Murray >
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