The FreeBSD Project is proud to be taking part in the Google Summer of Code 2008. We received far more more high quality applications than there were spaces available, so it was a very tough decision to narrow it down to the 21 students selected for funding by Google.

The summer hasn't officially begun yet, but information about these student projects will be available from our Summer of Code wiki and all of the code will be checked into Perforce.

2008 Student Projects

• 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 Murray Stokely
• 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

FreeBSD Summer of Code Links

• FreeBSD Summer of Code 2008 Wiki - with links to student project pages.