From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 25 09:20:51 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84BC01065677; Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:20:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stas@ht-systems.ru) Received: from smtp.ht-systems.ru (mr0.ht-systems.ru [78.110.50.55]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B8DE8FC2A; Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:20:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stas@ht-systems.ru) Received: from [78.110.49.49] (helo=quasar.ht-systems.ru) by smtp.ht-systems.ru with esmtpa (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1JpJki-0005rQ-8h; Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:57:56 +0400 Received: by quasar.ht-systems.ru (Postfix, from userid 1024) id 18961CD8E; Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:57:55 +0400 (MSD) Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:57:54 +0400 From: Stanislav Sedov To: vi0@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20080425125754.16ef8c45.stas@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4810C7A2.40206@semihalf.com> References: <4810C7A2.40206@semihalf.com> Organization: The FreeBSD Project X-XMPP: ssedov@jabber.ru X-Voice: +7 916 849 20 23 X-PGP-Fingerprint: F21E D6CC 5626 9609 6CE2 A385 2BF5 5993 EB26 9581 X-Mailer: carrier-pigeon Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, vi0 , ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My GSoC Intro... 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: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:20:51 -0000 On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:47:14 +0200 vi0 mentioned: > Hello everybody!!! > > My name is Przemek Witaszczyk and I am one of those very happy > FreeBSD GSoCers of 2008:) > > I am 25 years old and I come from Polad. Currently I'm working on > my PhD in the field of theoretical physics (AdS/CFT correspondence, > one nifty thing that came out from the superstrings theory...). MSc also > in theory, two years ago at Jagiellonian University, Krakow... > > My story of open source operating systems began in high school, > when I met Linux and was persuaded by the fact that you can never stop > configuring them:>. Since then I've checked out several OSes such like > Solaris, Tru64 and even Plan9, but no doubt FreeBSD was the one > I'd liked the most. > > So here I am. Partially by an accident I began working with embedded > systems developer, Rafal Jaworowski (and his UltraTeam:>), who > asked me if I'd liked to take a try in GSoC. So eventually we did it > and now with him as my Mentor I'm going to port FreeBSD to Efika - > a PPC based system on a chip eval board. What I expect the most > is learning as much as possible about the unix kernel and > getting to know with as many fbsd developers as possible. > And - to succeed, of course.. > Congrats! And good luck in your work! -- Stanislav Sedov ST4096-RIPE