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