From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 15 17:49:12 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 190D51065676 for ; Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:49:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ssgriffonuser@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iy0-f182.google.com (mail-iy0-f182.google.com [209.85.210.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D88F08FC16 for ; Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:49:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iagz16 with SMTP id z16so3634807iag.13 for ; Sun, 15 Jan 2012 09:49:10 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=V8BuKXZYSVM4bsZB8vGuIpPwaoQz9/chIww3i32xBzY=; b=d2WWgszfbI3/9g9P/9Hw7V5bMWaYZeSQJPMbzA3ekpHPhl5VU5zt6LWK1CU24ri264 7QSlu8c45bSKHD47SJDgYz0aYgFn/MHwuqY0XaJznbtYhGbZK550IfABPJ/3vXpTD4JM sGBJp84+WX8Vomz8n1iWtcEyuv0YqZVFtpiBM= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.42.152.65 with SMTP id h1mr7609381icw.50.1326648258234; Sun, 15 Jan 2012 09:24:18 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.42.246.132 with HTTP; Sun, 15 Jan 2012 09:24:18 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 10:24:18 -0700 Message-ID: From: ss griffon To: Matthieu Hauglustaine Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2 years student project X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:49:12 -0000 On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 5:38 AM, Matthieu Hauglustaine wrote: > Dear all, > > We are a group of french CS students at Epitech, currently in 3rd year. > As part of our formation we have to start working on our end of > scholarship project. We will have 2 years to complete this project, > and the only obligation we have is to be "innovative". > The first step is to submit our subject for validation, and this must > be done for the end of the month, > > We would really like to take this opportunity to contribute to the > FreeBSD project. > Our formation is focused exclusively on the "learn by doing it > yourself" philosophy and we have many projects in different domains > behind us (mainly in c and c++). > > We've spent some time looking around the ideas presented on this page: > http://wiki.freebsd.org/IdeasPage. > Lots of these projects are extremely interesting and, among others, > "porting HFS+" and "Space Communication Protocol Standards" are on our > list of potential projects. > Maybe their are other unlisted ideas that would be nice student > projects while still useful to the community? > > However, what should be the first move here? Who should we contact? > Would someone with more experience in FeeBSD development take the role > of "mentor"? > > We are hoping for some guidance so we could be as effective as possible. > > Regards, > > Matthieu Hauglustaine > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" In my experience, working with virtualization is very fun and rewarding. Perhaps, working to get Windows or Linux running on BHyve (FreeBSD hypervisor) would be a fun project.