From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 23 23:10:50 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17CB1106566C for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:10:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lichave@gmail.com) Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com (wf-out-1314.google.com [209.85.200.170]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E41338FC21 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:10:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lichave@gmail.com) Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 25so2165569wfa.7 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:10:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=XBmAoaerMcbm2+w6+0G4tHaDTKf8bmtuBHZim5nKe/0=; b=fsjXyLI7nQ0uLrupKXzLzkcC+bfoEffew9YeWGw+V2/Gf9uB8hmuKzGuVoAEhupjyUEUUl/DfzBtE0gkkgWXMKQVu/VbHX2F9qppLJmbYKqEE8XExbG3pK9PyRygtLKFX+nv8pDV2ROvWcTeKrf/PKSq/xfHvxCimbb+Hd9tVh4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=nQ/xTCDve0Amc6zL5U15jY7qrV9BPia8SL2tG1gkMp3qFjv5A8gN1x2IabhzyrHPLwIgGU1lwI23qnSuV5IlYrSXKGgs5OnOaccLYo58yKx0n/puEml9OnmB40GKC3Ten2RxcvflpWkxmeXnJnD3sWp5CfUsY6t+e8vsIPXkg2s= Received: by 10.142.237.20 with SMTP id k20mr261774wfh.112.1208990748875; Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:45:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.143.165.15 with HTTP; Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:45:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <716a8d5f0804231545v5b3ba923u9f20b763fcea33cf@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:45:48 +0200 From: "Konrad Jankowski" To: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20080422075642.GA72273@freebsdmall.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080422075642.GA72273@freebsdmall.com> Cc: Subject: Re: Please welcome our Summer of Code Students X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:10:50 -0000 Greetings to all in the FreeBSD community! My long-time dream of joining has come! As for the introduction: I am a 3'rd year Informatics student at Gdansk University of Technology. My interests are low level (kernel, library) coding. (surprise!) I have some bigger projects on my account: 1. DOORS operating system (http://netg.pl/~doors/) and 2. DOORS C compiler (http://netg.pl/~doors/dcc/) One of my biggest concerns was always creating software that works everywhere and as expected. By that I mean: standardized interfaces, clean code and no dependence on exotic libraries. My another related concern is: documented and standardized hardware (things like 3D driver portability). I think in future I will try to contribute to FreeBSD in this area by porting more DRM drivers. Another thing, this time more FreeBSD related: we have some basic subsystems that not always behave as expected. I means USB for example. I will be happy in the future to help test and integrate patches. I am also a system administrator at Blue Media (http://www.bluemedia.pl/), my work was the reason I started working on collation. Nearly all of our systems work on FreeBSD, and now we are moving the database systems to it. In this project I will be working on collation in UTF-8 locales, more info soon on my wiki. I want to say one important thing: four years ago, when I began my journey with FreeBSD, I started to analyze the source, and I was amazed by the cleanliness and discipline found there. That's when I begun to refactor my coding style to resonate with that. Now I thing I have got much of this cleanliness and discipline myself, and I am very proud of it. That makes me even more happy I can contribute back! Thank you, Konrad Jankowski