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Robert Watson, Alfred Perlstein, Hiten Panda, Sam Leffler, Poul Henning Kamp, Garance Drosihn, and Tim Kientzle (hope I didn't forget anyone, you all saw the developers@ thread anyway).
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<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/projects/summerofcode.sgml,v 1.1 2005/06/01 20:59:16 murray Exp $">
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<!ENTITY title "FreeBSD Summer Projects">
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<p>The FreeBSD Project is excited to take part in the Google <a
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href="http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html">Summer of Code
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2005</a>. This project endeavors to fund students to contribute to
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an open source project over the summer break.</p>
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<a name="ideas"></a>
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<h3 class="red">Example Proposal Ideas</h3>
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<ul>
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<li><strong>Integrate BSD Installer</strong> : Prepare a prototype
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merge of the <a href="http://www.bsdinstaller.org/">BSD
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Installer</a> as a complete replacement for the venerable FreeBSD
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sysinstall program. Enough of the groundwork has been laid out now
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that someone with a few months and some background could do a lot
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of good work here, especially with adequate mentoring by more
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senior FreeBSD developers.</li>
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<li><strong>Bundled PXE Installer</strong> : It would be great to
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have a bundled PXE installer. This would allow one to boot an
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install server from a FreeSBIE live CDROM on one box, set the BIOS
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on subsequent boxes to PXE boot, and then have the rest happen by
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magic. This would be very helpful for installing cluster nodes,
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etc.</li>
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<li><strong>Fully Integrated SNMP monitoring</strong> : Plugins for
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our BSNMP pieces to monitor useful system state, an SNMP client
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that could pull and centralize the data gathering, render it,
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etc.</li>
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<li><strong>Integrate Xen Support</strong> : Support for the <a
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href="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/">Xen virtual
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machine monitor</a> is coming into FreeBSD -CURRENT, so the
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installer could be updated to make it possible to setup a Xen
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system with several FreeBSD nodes, etc.</li>
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<li><strong>Rewrite CVSup in C</strong> : <a
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href="http://www.cvsup.org">CVSup</a> is the CVS-Optimized
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General-Purpose Network File Distribution System. It has been
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used heavily for nearly 10 years to distribute the FreeBSD CVS
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tree to mirrors around the world. CVSup was written in Modula-3
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and a rewrite in C would encourage more users to improve it.
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Additional requested features include understanding of Subversion
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fsfs repositories and Perforce depots. <a
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href="mailto:mux@FreeBSD.org">&a.mux;</a></li>
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<li><strong>UFS Journalling</strong> : Add meta-data journalling to
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the UFS filesystem. The goal is to increase the reliability and
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speed of meta-data operations under the UFS filesystem.
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Candidates should have at least a cursory understanding of
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filesystem data structures (inodes, free lists, directories) and a
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strong desire to learn more about such systems. This project will
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be a major contributions to anyone's resume, but it is not for the
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faint of heart. <a
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href="mailto:alfred@FreeBSD.org">&a.alfred;</a>, <a
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href="mailto:scottl@FreeBSD.org">&a.scottl;</a>, <a
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href="mailto:hmp@FreeBSD.org">&a.hmp;</a></li>
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<li><strong>Network Disk Device</strong> : Add the ability to
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remotely access devices from one system to another. The goal is
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to allow remote access to resources such as disks, sound devices,
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and other miscellaneous pieces of hardware over the network.
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Prospective candidates should have an understanding or interest in
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remote procedure call systems, networking (TCP/IP), an interest to
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learn how Unix device drivers work as well as process management
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will be required. This project would be a good resume builder,
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but is not for the faint of heart. <a
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href="mailto:alfred@FreeBSD.org">&a.alfred;</a>.</li>
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<!-- <li><strong>FreeBSD website redesign</strong></li> -->
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<li><strong>Logical Volume Manager</strong></li>
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</ul>
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<a name="mentors"></a>
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<h3 class="red">Mentors</h3>
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<p>If you are interested in working on a project not explicitly
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mentioned above, you may want to contact one of the potential
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mentors below about writing a proposal in one of the following broad
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categories.</p>
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<ul>
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<li><strong>Networking</strong> : <a
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href="mailto:sam@FreeBSD.org">&a.sam;</a></li>
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<li><strong>Filesystems</strong> : <a
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href="mailto:scottl@FreeBSD.org">&a.scottl;</a></li>
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<li><strong>GEOM</strong> : <a
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href="mailto:phk@FreeBSD.org">&a.phk;</a></li>
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<li><strong>Release Engineering / Integration</strong> : <a
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href="mailto:re@FreeBSD.org">re@FreeBSD.org</a></li>
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<li><strong>TrustedBSD / Security</strong> : <a
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href="mailto:rwatson@FreeBSD.org">&a.rwatson;</a></li>
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<li><strong>Pluggable Disk Schedulers</strong> : <a href="mailto:luigi@FreeBSD.org">&a.luigi;</a>.</li>
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</ul>
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<p>Additional projects may be found by browsing the <a
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href="index.html">FreeBSD Development Projects</a> page or by
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viewing some of the recent <a href="&base;/news/status">Developer
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Status Reports</a>.</p>
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<p>If your project is not selected for funding by Google, but you
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still think you have a feasible project proposal, then please email
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<a href="mailto:core@FreeBSD.org">core@FreeBSD.org</a>.</p>
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