Nominations for Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards

Nominations for the 5th Annual Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards are now being accepted. As in previous years the awards are open ended so nominations should also include the name of the award / achievement in addition to a nominated recipient (e.g. Best Lifetime Contributor, Community Builder, Tool Builder, Overall Hacker, etc..). Nominations are due by May 22, 2009 and will be judged by a committee before winners are presented with an award at OSCon 2009. (Via Google's Open Source Blog.)

50th BSD Video Posted: All DCBSDCon '09 Videos Live

Jason Dixon has made available the last 4 videos from DCBSDCon 2009. The last video marks the 50th video uploaded to the BSDConferences YouTube channel. This channel was created less than 5 months ago and now has 924 subscribers from authenticated YouTube users, and the videos have been viewed over 76,000 times by users from around the world (includes partial views).

The newest 4 videos are :

• Richard Bejtlich, Network Security Monitoring using FreeBSD
  
• Henning Brauer, Faster Packets: Performance Tuning in the OpenBSD Network Stack and pf.
  
• Jason Dixon, BSD is Still Dying (closing remarks)
  
• Chris Buechler, Network Perimeter Redundancy with pfsense
  

The average number of daily views is around 500, with significant spikes above 1,500 in the days after a popular new video is announced:
And the top 10 videos sorted by views (biased towards older videos that have been available longer) are :

• FreeBSD Kernel Internals, Dr. Marshall Kirk McKusick
  
• PC-BSD: FreeBSD on the Desktop
  
• New features in FreeBSD 7
  
• BSD is Dying, Jason Dixon, NYCBSDCon 2007
  
• ZFS in FreeBSD, by Pawel Jakub Dawidek
  
• FreeBSD, Building a Computing Cluster
  
• FreeBSD Profiling, Kris Kennaway, MeetBSD 2008
  
• Embedding FreeBSD, MeetBSD 2008
  
• BSD v. GPL, Jason Dixon, NYCBSDCon
  
• FreeBSD Network Stack Optimizations, Robert Watson
  

20 FreeBSD Summer of Code Students Announced

Leslie Hawthorne from Google today announced the students selected to participate in this year's Google Summer of Code. Among the 1,000 students from 70 countries participating in this program, 20 will be working on FreeBSD projects, 11 on NetBSD projects, and 5 on DragonFly BSD projects.

Keep an eye on the FreeBSD wiki and mailing lists for more information about these projects over the summer. Congratulations to Robert Watson, Brooks Davis, and Tim Kientzle for pairing up mentors and students for this year's FreeBSD applications :

• Student: alejandro pulver
  Project: Ports license infrastructure (part 2: integration)
  Mentor: Erwin Lansing


• Student: Ana Kukec
  Project: IPv6 Secure Neighbor Discovery - native kernel APIs for FreeBSD
  Mentor: Bjoern A. Zeeb


• Student: sylvestre gallon
  Project: USB improvements under FreeBSD
  Mentor: Philip Paeps


• Student: David Forsythe
  Project: Package tools rewrite via a new package library, with new features
  Mentor: Tim Kientzle


• Student: Fabio Checconi
  Project: Geom-based Disk Schedulers
  Mentor: Luigi Rizzo


• Student: Fang Wang
  Project: Implement TCP UTO
  Mentor: Rui Paulo


• Student: Gabor Kovesdan
  Project: BSD-licensed libiconv in base system
  Mentor: Xin LI


• Student: Ilias Marinos
  Project: Application-Specific Audit Trails
  Mentor: Robert Watson


• Student: marta carbone
  Project: Ipfw and dummynet improvements
  Mentor: Luigi Rizzo


• Student: Prashant Vaibhav
  Project: Reworking the callout scheme: towards a tickless kernel
  Mentor: Ed Maste


• Student: nikhil bysani
  Project: Porting NetworkManager to FreeBSD
  Mentor: Ed Schouten


• Student: gabor janos pali
  Project: Design and Implementation of Subsystem Support Libraries for Monitoring and Management
  Mentor: Oleksandr Tymoshenko


• Student: Satish Srinivasan
  Project: TrustedBSD Audit: Developing BSD licensed tools for importing, exporting from/to Linux audit log format and BSM.
  Mentor: Stacey Son


• Student: tatsiana severyna
  Project: puffs (pass-to-userspace framework file system) port for FreeBSD
  Mentor: Konstantin Belousov


• Student: edward napierala
  Project: Hierarchical Resource Limits
  Mentor: Brooks Davis


• Student: aditya sarawgi
  Project: Improving Second Extended File system (ext2fs) and making it GPL free.
  Mentor: Ulf Lilleengen


• Student: Zhao Shuai
  Project: FIFO Optimizations
  Mentor: John Baldwin


• Student: Zachariah Riggle
  Project: TCP\IP Regression Testing Suite
  Mentor: George Neville-Neil


• Student: gleb kurtsov
  Project: In kernel stackable cryptographic filesystem (ownfs)
  Mentor: Stanislav Sedov


• Student: tatsiana elavaya
  Project: ipfw ruleset optimization and highlevel rule definition language
  Mentor: Diomidis Spinellis

Videos from DCBSDCon Posted

Thanks to Jason Dixon and Will Backman, the first 8 videos from the first DCBSDCon are now available in the BSDConferences YouTube channel. The audio quality for these is better than many of the previous conference videos because Jason was able to sync the audio with a direct recording from the podium taken by Will. These videos were also made with pure open source tools such as avidemux, mplayer/mencoder and audacity. More information will be coming soon to the VideoProductionAndPublishing wiki.

In the mean time, enjoy these technical presentations from DCBSDCon 2009:

• Ken Caruso, Using BSD in SchmooCon Labs
  
• Robert Luciani, M:N Threading in DragonFly BSD
  
• Kurt Miller, Implementing pie on OpenBSD
  
• Isolating Cluster Jobs for Performance and Predictability, Brooks Davis
  
• Epitome, Marco Peereboom
  
• Process Isolation for NetBSD and OpenBSD, Kristaps Dzonson
  
• OpenBSD vs SMP, Threading, and Concurrency, Ted Unangst
  
• A Narrative History of BSD, Dr. Kirk McKusick