Hi,
Now that Anand Babu is here, wouldn't it be worthwhile to discuss Google's Summer of Code as well ? Wouldn't it be neat if we can get some students to write code for GNU ?
Speaking of this, there's this old academic project of mine which is checked into hurdextras repository last week :
http://cvs.savannah.nongnu.org/viewcvs/jfs/?root=hurdextras
Though AB was not directly involved, I ought to buy him a chai or something for this - it was a talk given to him at my college that made me choose such a project. That old charm of his should surely still work great among current generation of students as well ;-)
Thanks, Sajith.
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Google's Summer of Code 2006 Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 13:26:48 -0400 From: Thomas Schwinge tschwinge@gnu.org To: hurd-devel@gnu.org, bug-hurd@gnu.org, l4-hurd@gnu.org
Hi!
For those who don't know it yet: Google's Summer of Code, URL:http://code.google.com/soc/, is a project organized by Google where capable students can sign up to work on tasks (software projects) that are offered my mentoring parties. A pecuniary aid is also involved. See the above URL for details (or ask me).
The GNU project is participating in this year's Summer of Code, which leads to question if the Hurd project, being part of the GNU project, is also going to offer some tasks and evaluate tasks which might possibly be submitted by the potential workmen themselves.
I could imagine handling the task of mentoring with the help of the whole Hurd community. That is, I'd be the official mentor for the projects we're going to submit. But for sure I'll need a backup who would at least care at the times I won't be available, especially for two weeks in August (which is near the end of the project), which I'll most probably spend with a concert band in Canada, perhaps without any possibilities to work on the Summer of Code stuff.
Who could also imagine being a mentor for the Summer of Code?
Possible projects I thought about submitting include `libchannel', `pfinet rewrite', `nfs / nfsd rewrite / enhancement', `GNU Mach on Xen'.
If you have ideas for other projects, please don't hesitate to tell me. It is also possible that you come up with suggestions for projects which you then consider yourself applying for.
Please hurry up with your answers; the deadline for submitting the proposals is quickly getting nearer.
Regards, Thomas