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Add list of specific project ideas for the Google Summer of Code endeavor.

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Also list mentors willing to supervise other projects in broad
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# $FreeBSD: www/en/projects/Makefile,v 1.22 2005/04/18 11:47:07 phk Exp $
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DOCS= projects.sgml
DOCS+= newbies.sgml
DOCS+= cvsweb.sgml
DOCS+= summerofcode.sgml
INDEXLINK= projects.html

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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" [
<!ENTITY base CDATA "..">
<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD$">
<!ENTITY title "FreeBSD Summer Projects">
<!ENTITY % includes SYSTEM "../includes.sgml"> %includes;
<!ENTITY % developers SYSTEM "../developers.sgml"> %developers;
]>
<html>
&header;
<p>The FreeBSD Project is excited to take part in the Google <a
href="http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html">Summer of Code
2005</a>. This project endeavors to fund students to contribute to
an open source project over the summer break.</p>
<a name="ideas"></a>
<h3 class="red">Example Proposal Ideas</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Integrate BSD Installer</strong> : Prepare a prototype
merge of the <a href="http://www.bsdinstaller.org/">BSD
Installer</a> as a complete replacement for the venerable FreeBSD
sysinstall program. Enough of the groundwork has been laid out now
that someone with a few months and some background could do a lot
of good work here, especially with adequate mentoring by more
senior FreeBSD developers.</li>
<li><strong>Bundled PXE Installer</strong> : It would be great to
have a bundled PXE installer. This would allow one to boot an
install server from a FreeSBIE live CDROM on one box, set the BIOS
on subsequent boxes to PXE boot, and then have the rest happen by
magic. This would be very helpful for installing cluster nodes,
etc.</li>
<li><strong>Fully Integrated SNMP monitoring</strong> : Plugins for
our BSNMP pieces to monitor useful system state, an SNMP client
that could pull and centralize the data gathering, render it,
etc.</li>
<li><strong>Integrate Xen Support</strong> : Support for the <a
href="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/">Xen virtual
machine monitor</a> is coming into FreeBSD -CURRENT, so the
installer could be updated to make it possible to setup a Xen
system with several FreeBSD nodes, etc.</li>
<li><strong>Rewrite CVSup in C</strong> : <a
href="http://www.cvsup.org">CVSup</a> is the CVS-Optimized
General-Purpose Network File Distribution System. It has been
used heavily for nearly 10 years to distribute the FreeBSD CVS
tree to mirrors around the world. CVSup was written in Modula-3
and a rewrite in C would encourage more users to improve it.
Additional requested features include understanding of Subversion
fsfs repositories and Perforce depots. <a
href="mailto:mux@FreeBSD.org">&a.mux;</a></li>
<li><strong>UFS Journalling</strong> : Add meta-data journalling to
the UFS filesystem. The goal is to increase the reliability and
speed of meta-data operations under the UFS filesystem.
Candidates should have at least a cursory understanding of
filesystem data structures (inodes, free lists, directories) and a
strong desire to learn more about such systems. This project will
be a major contributions to anyone's resume, but it is not for the
faint of heart. <a
href="mailto:alfred@FreeBSD.org">&a.alfred;</a>, <a
href="mailto:scottl@FreeBSD.org">&a.scottl;</a>, <a
href="mailto:hmp@FreeBSD.org">&a.hmp;</a></li>
<li><strong>Network Disk Device</strong> : Add the ability to
remotely access devices from one system to another. The goal is
to allow remote access to resources such as disks, sound devices,
and other miscellaneous pieces of hardware over the network.
Prospective candidates should have an understanding or interest in
remote procedure call systems, networking (TCP/IP), an interest to
learn how Unix device drivers work as well as process management
will be required. This project would be a good resume builder,
but is not for the faint of heart. <a
href="mailto:alfred@FreeBSD.org">&a.alfred;</a>.</li>
<!-- <li><strong>FreeBSD website redesign</strong></li> -->
<li><strong>Logical Volume Manager</strong></li>
</ul>
<a name="mentors"></a>
<h3 class="red">Mentors</h3>
<p>If you are interested in working on a project not explicitly
mentioned above, you may want to contact one of the potential
mentors below about writing a proposal in one of the following broad
categories.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Networking</strong> : <a
href="mailto:sam@FreeBSD.org">&a.sam;</a></li>
<li><strong>Filesystems</strong> : <a
href="mailto:scottl@FreeBSD.org">&a.scottl;</a></li>
<li><strong>GEOM</strong> : <a
href="mailto:phk@FreeBSD.org">&a.phk;</a></li>
<li><strong>Release Engineering / Integration</strong> : <a
href="mailto:re@FreeBSD.org">re@FreeBSD.org</a></li>
<li><strong>TrustedBSD / Security</strong> : <a
href="mailto:rwatson@FreeBSD.org">&a.rwatson;</a></li>
<li><strong>Pluggable Disk Schedulers</strong> : <a href="mailto:luigi@FreeBSD.org">&a.luigi;</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p>Additional projects may be found by browsing the <a
href="index.html">FreeBSD Development Projects</a> page or by
viewing some of the recent <a href="&base;/news/status">Developer
Status Reports</a>.</p>
<p>If your project is not selected for funding by Google, but you
still think you have a feasible project proposal, then please email
<a href="mailto:core@FreeBSD.org">core@FreeBSD.org</a>.</p>
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