Re: FreeBSD Student Opportunities

On Tue, 2022-03-08 at 15:18, Jake Freeland <jake@technologyfriends.net> wrote:

> Hi there,

> I am currently a freshman majoring in computer science at the University of
> Minnesota. I've been actively maintaining at-home FreeBSD and other
> UNIX-like servers for years now, and I have recently started researching
> and tinkering with operating system development. Although I am certainly a
> beginner, I have already fallen in love with low-level programming and I am
> eager to experience what it's like to work on a large-scale team.

> On all the UNIX-like systems that I have worked with, I always find myself
> leaving the Linux world and coming back to BSD. I run FreeBSD on my desktop
> and I can attest to the cleanliness of the operating system itself and the
> user-friendliness that comes with the documentation.

> Over the last month I've contemplated writing this email, but I figured it
> would not hurt to ask. Are there any potential internship opportunities
> available among developers of FreeBSD?

> I would love to provide a resume and talk to a team member about my
> experience. I hope we can sort something out here. I am extremely excited
> to take my passion to the next level.

> Thank you for your time,
> Jake Freeland

Hi Jake,

Good timing.  We just learned yesterday that FreeBSD has been accepted
to participate in Google Summer of Code 2022.  That would be a nice
opportunity to test the waters and get paid for your work.  You can see
our current list of project ideas at
https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCodeIdeas.  If any of those projects
sound interesting, you can contact the associated mentor for more
information.

Here is the GSoC timeline:
https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline.

Perhaps also of interest is this document describing different ways to
contribute to FreeBSD.
https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/contributing/.

Feel free to reply to me directly with more questions.

Regards,

Joe