From owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 22 03:02:44 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 412C21065679 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:02:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from nyi.unixathome.org (nyi.unixathome.org [64.147.113.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1F988FC30 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:02:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nyi.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E3315089C for ; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 04:02:38 +0100 (BST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at unixathome.org Received: from nyi.unixathome.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (nyi.unixathome.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id sAWt2CATgDhz for ; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 04:02:37 +0100 (BST) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (pool-72-78-223-75.phlapa.fios.verizon.net [72.78.223.75]) by nyi.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AA55F50A1B for ; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 04:02:37 +0100 (BST) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <8C56A107-2882-493A-8F29-D3DD4CE526F7@langille.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org From: Dan Langille Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:02:33 -0400 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.753) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:13:17 +0000 Subject: [FreeBSD-Announce] Three weeks to go X-BeenThere: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Project Announcements \[moderated\]" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:02:44 -0000 Hi, In three weeks, the BSD masses will be gathering in Ottawa for the 5th annual BSDCan. The schedule is phenomenal, even if I do say so myself. If you are interested in spreading the word about BSDCan, and getting your name out there, consider reporting on one or more of the talks for USENIX. Rik Farrow tells me that the summaries will be published in the August 2008 issue of ;login:. A summary can be as short as a paragraph or so. It's pretty easy, and Rik provides past summaries as examples. If you can type, you can do a summary. Sign up here: http://www.spirit.com/cgi-new/bsdcan08 If you have not made your plans for BSDCan 2008 yet, you better get started before all the good rooms are gone and you have to stay off-campus. :) -- Dan Langille -- http://www.langille.org/ dan@langille.org From owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 22 08:38:28 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: announce@FreeBSD.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 815) id 61FAF1065671; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:38:28 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:38:28 +0000 From: Murray Stokely To: announce@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20080422083828.GB48531@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-GPG-Key-ID: 1024D/0E451F7D X-GPG-Key-Fingerprint: E2CA 411D DD44 53FD BB4B 3CB5 B4D7 10A2 0E45 1F7D Cc: Subject: [FreeBSD-Announce] Congratulations to our Summer of Code Students X-BeenThere: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Project Announcements \[moderated\]" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:38:28 -0000 Google announced today that they are funding 21 Summer of Code students to work on FreeBSD. We had over 100 very competitive applications and so it was difficult to narrow it down to these 21 students. Each student will be paid by Google to spend the summer working on a specified FreeBSD project with an assigned senior developer to mentor them. More information about this program is available from http://code.google.com/soc. We are very much looking forward to working with these students this summer on the chosen FreeBSD related projects. So without further ado, the student/mentor pairs are : * 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 Kip Macy * 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 We are still in the process of getting these students signed up for perforce and wiki accounts and such, but eventually the students will create project pages describing their plans and progress at : http://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2008 Thanks to everyone (over 60 committers registered this year!) that helped review the student applications, and especially thanks to Google for this significant investment in the the FreeBSD development community. - Murray Stokely Robert Watson