Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2015 21:36:33 -0500 From: Jonathon McDaniels <mcdanielsjr@mymail.vcu.edu> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Interested in GSOC - some advice? Message-ID: <54F51E31.8000606@mymail.vcu.edu>
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Hello freebsd-hackers mailing list! I'm a student at VCU currently enrolled as an information systems major with a CS minor - I'm currently a junior but I've not been able to work on my minor courses - to be honest. I've been teaching myself C for the past 8 months or so, I'm still at a rather rudimentary level, but I am confident I'll be ready to tackle some form of GSoC project by the start of the actual project side of things. Since there's only a matter of months left, however, what are some recommendations for getting to know FreeBSD that would make the best usage of my time in these months? Just so you have an idea of my background - I've been following FreeBSD off and on since around 2008 or so. I've been using it as a workstation OS for about 1-2 years, and a server OS for about 2-3. I've not submitted any diffs or anything yet because of a lack of understanding of the finer details of the FreeBSD kernel or userland, or its ports for that matter. Still, I've been able to comprehend and rewrite many of the BSD CLI tools just to see what does what. As far as what I have interest in advancing, I have interest in a lot of things, but I use FreeBSD because of its exceptional network performance and security, and its ports tree. So, with the registration opening in just a few scant weeks, any advice, words of encouragement, protips or whatnot? I'm pretty open-minded in regards to what I should focus on - I've mostly used my programming up to this point to simply advance farther in my knowledge of the language. Best Regards, Jonathon "Johnny" McDaniels
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