Re: FreeBSD Student Opportunities
- In reply to: Jake Freeland : "FreeBSD Student Opportunities"
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Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2022 21:22:57 UTC
On 3/8/22 12:48, Jake Freeland wrote: > 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 the developers of the FreeBSD team? > > 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. Hi Jake, one thing that comes to mind is apply to FreeBSD's Google Summer of Code cohort (assuming FreeBSD is accepted for 2022). You can learn more on the wiki here: https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCodeIdeas -pete -- Pete Wright pete@nomadlogic.org @nomadlogicLA