Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 21:27:18 +0000 From: "Wojciech A. Koszek" <wkoszek@freebsd.org> To: dweimer@dweimer.net Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD in Google Code-In 2012? You can help too! Message-ID: <20121022212717.GC59689@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <ac226cc4141b5a8c4613afc7840707b5@dweimer.net> References: <20121016101957.GB53800@FreeBSD.org> <20121022174457.GB59689@FreeBSD.org> <ac226cc4141b5a8c4613afc7840707b5@dweimer.net>
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On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 03:08:27PM -0500, dweimer wrote: > On 2012-10-22 12:44, Wojciech A. Koszek wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 10:19:57AM +0000, Wojciech A. Koszek wrote: > >> (cross-posted message; please keep discussion on freebsd-hackers@) > >> > >> Hello, > >> > >> Last year FreeBSD qualified for Google Code-In 2011 event--contest > >> for > >> youngest open-source hackers in 13-17yr age range: > >> > >> http://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2012 > >> > >> It was successful. We gained one more FreeBSD developer thanks to > >> that > >> (Isabell Long) We're pondering participating in the contest this > >> year as > >> well. > >> > >> For now we only have 25 ideas. We need at least 100. > >> > >> I felt all members of the FreeBSD community should help, so please > >> submit > >> your own Google Code-In 2012 ideas here: > >> > >> http://www.emailmeform.com/builder/form/4aU93Obxo4NYdVAgb1 > >> > >> Examples of previously completed tasks: > >> > >> http://wiki.freebsd.org/GoogleCodeIn/2011Tasks > >> > >> Those of you who have Wiki access, please spent 2 more minutes and > >> submit > >> straight to Wiki: > >> > >> http://wiki.freebsd.org/GoogleCodeIn/2012Tasks > >> > >> I plan to send out next e-mail if there's any progress on this > >> project. > >> > >> Help will be appreciated. > >> > > > > Update: > > > > It looks pretty bad so far. Page: > > > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/GoogleCodeIn/2012Tasks > > > > Has 38 tasks so far out of which: > > > > ~30 would qualify. > > > > Consider this e-mail to be the last call for action. Otherwise we'll > > have to > > pull back and concentrate our efforts on GSOC instead. > > One thing I can think to add if it's not already been done and if its a > practical idea for the Google project, would be to update the mount_udf > command to support newer versions of UDF. It looks like as of FreeBSD 7 > that 1.02 & 1.50 are supported, I( haven't been able to find any more > recent documentation to support whether or not updates have been made > since then. > > I only know that server I have running 9.0, for the purpose of hosting > ISO images on the network so they are available to our ESX environment > for mounting as a local CDROM/DVD within virtual machines, and also > available as files over a network share, can't mount the some of the > more recent DVDs in the UDF format, but I am unsure which format they > are in, they could be 2.0, 2.5, or 2.6. I think it's too hard for Google Code-In (participants are 13--17), but submit this idea via web form. We can always end up doing copy&paste to GSOC section, which I think would be more appropriate. -- Wojciech A. Koszek wkoszek@FreeBSD.czest.pl http://FreeBSD.czest.pl/~wkoszek/
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