Re: Summer of Code accepted proposals

["Nirmal Thacker" <thacker.nirmal@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:59 PM, Justin C. Sherrill
<justin@shiningsilence.com> wrote:
> Google listed the accepted proposals today!
>
>  http://code.google.com/soc/2008/dragonfly/about.html
>
>  For accepted students (and mentors):
>  We are now in the Community Bonding Period.  This is where students get
>  involved with DragonFly.  Get on kernel@, get on #dragonflybsd on EFnet,
>  start talking about projects.
>
>  Google has more about this time period:
>  http://googlesummerofcode.blogspot.com/2007/04/so-what-is-this-community-bonding-all.html
>
>  This is the time to ask questions about tools and styles, features and
>  ideas, and so on.
>
>  For students who didn't make the cut:
>  We'd still like to see your work.  We had a number of original proposals;
>  the hard limit was the number of mentors.  Patches and conversations with
>  students who aren't in GSoC at this point is welcome.
>
>  Here's the list of what made it in.  The proposals are available at the
>  Google SoC website page linked above.
>
>  Port DragonFly to the AMD64 architecture
>  by Jordan Gordeev, mentored by Thomas Edward Spanjaard
>
>  Extend Multi-Processing (MP) support
>  by Robert Luciani, mentored by Simon Schubert
>
>  Proportional Share userland Scheduling Algorithm
>  by Mayur Narayan Bhosle, mentored by Jeffrey Hsu
>
>  Anticipatory Disk I/O Scheduler for DragonFlyBSD
>  by Nirmal Thacker, mentored by Simon Schubert
Awesome!...Thanks a lot for this!

Looking forward to the Summer of Code!

Please let me know if I would need to start up with some stuff
already- school would get over in about 8 days and I could be
relatively free until then.

Nirmal

>
>  DragonFlyBSD – LiveCD with a DragonFly-specific X desktop, integrated into
>  nrelease build
>  by Louisa Luciani, mentored by Sascha Wildner
>
>  Enhance dma(8)
>  by Max Lindner, mentored by Matthias Schmidt
>
>  RFC3542 support on DragonFly BSD
>  by Dashu Huang, mentored by Hasso Tepper
>
>
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