[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD Summer of Code Projects Announced

[Murray Stokely]

The FreeBSD Project is pleased to announce its participation in the
Google Summer of Code program designed to introduce students to open
source software development.

The FreeBSD Project received over 120 applications, amongst which 14
projects have been selected for funding.

Unfortunately, due to the limited number of spots available, we were
unable to fund many first rate applications.  However, we encourage
students to work together with us all year round.  The FreeBSD Project
is always willing to help students learn more about operating system
development through our normal community mailing lists and development
forums.  Contributing to an open source software project is a valuable
component of a computer science education and great preparation for a
career in software development.

More information about the student projects is available from the
FreeBSD Summer of Code Wiki here :

  http://wikitest.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2006

The Wiki will soon be updated with information about downloading the
work in progress with CVSup.

We'd like to close by thanking Google for their generosity and
congratulating the 14 talented students below.

- The FreeBSD Summer of Code Mentors

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Student:	Spencer Whitman
Summary: 	K - The Kernel meta-language
Mentor: 	Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at FreeBSD.org>
 
Student:	Shteryana Sotirova Shopova
Summary: 	Integrated SNMP monitoring
Mentor: 	Bjoern Alexander Zeeb <bz at FreeBSD.org>
 
Student:	Clement Lecigne
Summary: 	IPv6 stack vulnerabilities
Mentor: 	George Neville-Neil <gnn at FreeBSD.org>

Student: 	Roman Divacky
Summary: 	Linux emulator
Mentor: 	Alexander Leidinger <netchild at FreeBSD.org>
 
Student:	ADAM David Alan Martin
Summary: 	AutoFS on FreeBSD 6
Mentor: 	Benno Rice <benno at FreeBSD.org>

Student:	Gabor Kovesdan
Summary:	Improving FreeBSD Ports Collection
Mentor: 	Erwin Lansing <erwin at FreeBSD.org>
 
Student:	Ryan Beasley
Summary: 	Syncing with the 4Front Technologies OSS v4 API
Mentor: 	Ariff Abdullah <ariff at FreeBSD.org>
 
Student:	Paolo Pisati
Summary: 	Study, analyze and improve the interrupt handling
infrastructure in FreeBSD
Mentor:        John Baldwin <jhb at FreeBSD.org>
 
Student:	Yuan, Jue
Summary: 	Integrate Xen Support to FreeBSD
Mentor: 	Kip Macy <kmacy at FreeBSD.org>
 
Student:	Christopher Jones
Summary: 	Jail Resource Limits etc
Mentor: 	Kip Macy <kmacy at FreeBSD.org>
 
Student:	Michael Bushkov
Summary: 	Nss-LDAP importing and nsswitch subsystem improvement
Mentor: 	Hajimu UMEMOTO <ume at FreeBSD.org>
 
Student:	Markus Boelter
Summary: 	Bundled PXE Installer
Mentor: 	Paul Saab <ps at FreeBSD.org>
 
Student:	Dongmei Liu
Summary: 	Provide a set of default SeBSD policy for many common
network services on FreeBSD 6.0, develop a policy analyse tool and a
policy configure tools for SeBSD
Mentor: 	 Mike Silbersack <silby at FreeBSD.org>
 
Student:	Ivan Voras
Summary: 	FreeBSD GEOM Storage Virtualisation Layer (gvirstor)
Mentor: 	Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd at FreeBSD.org>