The FreeBSD Project is proud to be taking part in the Google Summer of Code 2007. We received more high quality applications this year than ever before. In the end it was a very tough decision to narrow it down to the 25 students selected for funding by Google. The student projects are listed below. For more detailed information about the plans for each project, please see the FreeBSD Summer of Code 2007 wiki.

2007 Student Projects

• Project: GNOME front-end to freebsd-update(8)
  Student: Andrew Turner
  Mentor: &a.marcus;
   
• Project: Multicast DNS responder (BSD-licensed)
  Student: Fredrik Lindberg
  Mentor: &a.bms;
   
• Project: Unified ports / package system database backend
  Student: Garrett Cooper
  Mentor: &a.krion;
   
• Project: Super Tunnel Daemon
  Student: Matus Harvan
  Mentor: &a.mlaier;
   
• Project: Rewriting lockmgr(9)
  Student: Attilio Rao
  Mentor: &a.jeff;
   
• Project: Apple's MacBook on FreeBSD
  Student: Rui Paulo
  Mentor: &a.andre;
   
• Project: Security regression tests
  Student: Zhouyi ZHOU
  Mentor: &a.rwatson;
   
• Project: GVinum Enhancements
  Student: Ulf Lilleengen
  Mentor: &a.le;
   
• Project: Parallelization of the Ports Collection
  Student: Wade Wesolowsky
  Mentor: &a.pav;
   
• Project: TCP/IP regression test suite
  Student: Nanjun Li
  Mentor: &a.gnn;
   
• Project: Avoiding syscall overhead
  Student: Jesper Brix Rosenkilde
  Mentor: &a.scottl;
   
• Project: msdosfs Infrastructure
  Student: Brian Chu
  Mentor: &a.kib;
   
• Project: Port OpenBSD's sysctl Hardware Sensors framework
  Student: Constantine A. Murenin
  Mentor: &a.syrinx;
   
• Project: Distributed audit daemon
  Student: Alexey Mikhailov
  Mentor: &a.bz;
   
• Project: Generic input device layer
  Student: Maxim Zhuravlev
  Mentor: &a.philip;
   
• Project: bus_alloc_resources() Code Update
  Student: Christopher Davis
  Mentor: &a.imp;
   
• Project: BSD bintools project (Part I)
  Student: Kai Wang
  Mentor: &a.jkoshy;
   
• Project: Update of Linuxulator for Linux 2.6
  Student: Roman Divacky
  Mentor: &a.kib;
   
• Project: FreeBSD 'safety net' IO logging utility
  Student: Sonja Milicic
  Mentor: &a.le;
   
• Project: Provide an audit log analysis tool
  Student: Liu Dongmei
  Mentor: &a.rwatson;
   
• Project: Improve the FreeBSD Ports Collection Infrastructure
  Student: &a.gabor;
  Mentor: &a.sat;
   
• Project: PMC GUI
  Student: Mathieu Prevot
  Mentor: Joseph Koshy
   
• Project: http support for PXE
  Student: Alexey Tarasov
  Mentor: Ed Maste
   
• Project: Graphical installer for FreeBSD (finstall)
  Student: Ivan Voras
  Mentor: Murray Stokely
   
• Project: Porting Linux KVM to FreeBSD
  Student: Fabio Checconi
  Mentor: Luigi Rizzo
   

We would also like to recognize Christopher Lindsay who was originally selected for his BSD-licensed Text-Processing Tools project but had to withdraw from the program this summer.

FreeBSD Summer of Code Links

• FreeBSD Summer of Code 2007 Wiki - with links to student project pages.