Please welcome our Summer of Code Students

[Nick Barkas]

Hi everyone
I'm Nick Barkas, and will be working on making memory usage for
dirhash dynamic. I'm a master's student studying scientific computing
at Kungliga Tekniska högskolan (Royal Institute of Technology) in
Stockholm. I have been using FreeBSD for several years and I am very
happy to get this chance to spend a lot of time hacking on it,
learning more about what goes on in the kernel, and hopefully making
UFS2 faster.

I also work for a game company called Three Rings Design based in San
Francisco. We use FreeBSD for most of our servers there, and I do
backend software engineering and system administration.

Thanks!
Nick

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 9:56 AM, Murray Stokely <murray at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Google announced today that they are funding 21 of our Summer of Code
>  applicants (out of over 100 applications).  We had at least 10 highly
>  competitive applications that were not funded by Google, and we've
>  encouraged some of those students to work on FreeBSD this summer
>  anyway.  We are very much looking forward to working with these
>  students this summer on the chosen FreeBSD related projects.  So
>  without further ado, the student/mentor pairs are :
>
>  * Dynamic memory allocation for dirhash in UFS2,
>   Sean Nicholas Barkas, mentored by David Malone
>  * TCP/IP regression test suite,
>   Victor Hugo Bilouro, mentored by George Neville-Neil
>  * Improved Wine support under FreeBSD,
>   Eric Durbin, mentored by Kristofer Paul Moore (PC-BSD)
>  * Allowing for Parallel builds in the FreeBSD Ports Collection,
>   David Forsythe, mentored by Mark Linimon
>  * Implementation of MPLS in FreeBSD,
>   Ryan French, mentored by Kip Macy
>  * Audit Firewall Events from Kernel,
>   Diego Giagio, mentored by Christian S.J. Peron
>  * Embedded FreeBSD project,
>   James Andrew Harrison, mentored by Warner Losh
>  * FreeBSD auditing system testing,
>   Vincenzo Iozzo, mentored by Attilio Rao
>  * Multibyte collation support,
>   Konrad Jankowski, mentored by Diomidis Spinellis
>  * Porting BSD-licensed Text-Processing Tools from OpenBSD,
>   Gabor Kovesdan, mentored by Max Khon
>  * Reference implementation of the SNTP client,
>   Johannes Maximilian Kuehn, mentored by Harlan Stenn (NTP)
>  * Improving layer2 filtering in FreeBSD,
>   Gleb Kurtsov, mentored by Andrew Thompson
>  * DTrace Toolkit on FreeBSD,
>   LIQUN LI, mentored by John Birrell
>  * NFSv4 ACLs,
>   Edward Tomasz Napierala, mentored by Robert Watson
>  * Adding .db support to pkg_tools --> pkg_improved,
>   Anders Nore, mentored by Florent Thoumie
>  * 802.11 Fuzzing and Testing,
>   Aniket Patankar, mentored by Sam Leffler
>  * TCP anomaly detector,
>   Rui Alexandre Cunha Paulo, mentored by Andre Oppermann
>  * Ports license auditing infrastructure,
>   Alejandro Pulver, mentored by Brooks Davis
>  * VM Algorithm Improvement,
>   Mayur Shardul, mentored by Jeffrey Roberson
>  * Enhancing FreeBSD's Libarchive,
>   Anselm Strauss, mentored by Timothy Kientzle
>  * Porting FreeBSD to Efika SoC (PPC bring up),
>   Przemek Witaszczyk, mentored by Rafal Jaworowski
>
>  We are still in the process of getting them signed up for perforce and
>  wiki accounts and such, but eventually the students will create
>  project pages describing their plans and progress at :
>
>   http://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2008
>
>  Most of the students are still busy with coursework at the moment, and
>  so this is a community bonding period before the summer work is
>  supposed to begin.  In the mean time if you want to send a note to
>  congratulate them you can mail them all at soc-students at FreeBSD.org.
>
>  Thanks to everyone (over 60 committers registered this year!) that
>  helped review the student applications, and especially thanks to
>  Google for this significant investment in the the FreeBSD development
>  community.
>
>         - Murray
>