NetBSD Announces Accepted Summer of Code Projects

jschauma writes "The NetBSD Project is proud to announce the list of projects accepted for this year's Summer of Code. While the list of proposals was impressive and of particularly high quality, a choice of eight applications had to be made, yielding the following projects: "Support for journaling for FFS", "Support for MIPS64 ISA", "PowerPC G5 support", "Improved Writing to FileSystem Using Congestion Control", "TCP ECN support", "Fast_ipsec and ipv6", "pkg_install rewrite for pkgsrc" and "Improving the mbuf API and implementation". Details about each project will be posted to the NetBSD SoC SourceForge website."

A full list of Accepted Summer of Code projects

[neomage86]

is available here: http://code.google.com/soc/ [google.com] And I'm happy to note that my proposal (A Lisp Proof Checker) was accepted by PlanetMath! Overall, Google Spent about $3,000,000 funding over 600 Open Source projects! Thanks Google!!!

Re:A full list of Accepted Summer of Code projects

[xeon4life]

-1 Boasting ? :-(

Re:A full list of Accepted Summer of Code projects

[HitScan]

Yeah, all this goodie-goodie shit is worthless! They ought to use the money to hire the interns, pay to move them all to a single location, and force them to use Java all day under retina bleaching flourescent lights in tiny cubicles with tight deadlines and soul crushing mindless drone work! Get 'em ready to work for the man! That's how I'd spend it!

Or not.

Re:A full list of Accepted Summer of Code projects

[Tweekster]

Last time I checked Google is making money hand over fist. Their investors are very happy. In fact, Google could announce they are going to spend 10million dollars on cocaine and hookers and I dont think their investors would blink, they would just be like "alright, sounds good"

Re:A full list of Accepted Summer of Code projects

[westyx]

Actually, while they're making a fair bit of money, shareholders are not happy, as the level of money they're making isn't justifying the high price of the shares.

There's also the problem that while search is going gangbusters, it's the only part of their business that is going well, and that their addon services (google video etc) aren't getting the large takeup that their search has, leaving them vulnerable if something happens to the profitability of their search business.

Re:A full list of Accepted Summer of Code projects

[fistfullast33l]

Ironically enough, some of the SOC site is unreadable with IE 6. Anyone else notice when you click an application the site comes up with all the projects left justified underneath the links? Slashdot does that sometimes as well but usually a refresh helps it out. Here, it doesn't matter. Too bad my company doesn't have firefox readily available.

Google funding open source

[nacturation]

Google has also donated $10,000 [undeadly.org] to OpenBSD/OpenSSH. Looks like it's going to be a summer of code all around.
 

Re:Google funding open source

[WeArab]

Google is smarter than MS they are supporting what serves their needs and Open Source community as well.

go netbsd!

[kv9]

i can't wait for the fs congestion control [google.com]! good stuff.

FS Congestion Control

[alxtoth]

At the moment, the closest thing to "competition" is Sun's ZFS with dynamic stripping of writes over multiple devices. While stripped write was probably not designed for "Quality-of-Service" style implied by "Congestion Control", is definitively helping with better speed and reliability (copies on at least 2 devices). This could be as significant BSD advantage as was the immutable file flag.

will they support dual core G5?

[kiwipeso]

Please don't forget the dual and quad G5. Then we really will have global desktop domination.
At the very least, support iMac G5 fully.

Re:will they support dual core G5?

[TheRaven64]

It is worth noting that OpenBSD already has G5 support, with SMP support underway.

BPG (again) would have been nice

[Betabug]

Another summmer of work on BPG [sourceforge.net] - "An OpenPGP Privacy Toolkit for NetBSD" would have been nice. BPG is a BSD licensed implementation of the OpenPGP standard. In this time of global surveillance this project makes a lot of sense. We do have GPG, but choice is good in security applications.

Of course I'm to lame to look up if the same project can be accepted twice :-). BPG was in last years batch of NetBSD Summer of Code projects [netbsd.org].

Project for next year

[CAPSLOCK2000]

survive a slashdotting

mainstream-ifying

[robinesque]

So where is the project making Linux ready for mainstream desktop use? Come on, Google.

Re:mainstream-ifying

[Tadyla]

Well I'm a bit disapointed with linux being the main trend of Summer of Code. Open source is not only about linux it's also about applications.

Do any other firms do similar sponsorships?

[WoTG]

This Summer of Code program of Google's is brilliant. I'm amazed at how every major OSS project has gotten funding for at least a couple projects. Maybe it's time for other firms to start doing something similar, the Cottage Fever Coding program(?)... it would certainly be good for PR.