Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:45:48 +0200 From: "Konrad Jankowski" <lichave@gmail.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Please welcome our Summer of Code Students Message-ID: <716a8d5f0804231545v5b3ba923u9f20b763fcea33cf@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080422075642.GA72273@freebsdmall.com> References: <20080422075642.GA72273@freebsdmall.com>
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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
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