NetBSD's Google Summer of Code Projects 2011

The following projects have been chosen for Google Summer of Code™ this year (sorted by student's last name):

• Implementing the algorithms described in RFC 6056 within the NetBSD
• Student: Vlad Balan
• Mentor: Christos Zoulas

• Socket option to timestamp UDP packets in NetBSD kernel
• Student: Dmitry Cherkassov
• Mentor: Marc Balmer

• pkgsrc cross-building: connecting the dots
• Student: Efstathios Kamperis
• Mentor: Aleksej Saushev

• Add kqueue support to GIO
• Student: Dmitry Matveev
• Mentor: Julio Merino

• Userspace file system and device driver code sharing
• Student: Vyacheslav Matyushin
• Mentor: Alistair Crooks

• IPv6 support for NPF firewall
• Student: Zoltan Arnold Nagy
• Mentor: Martin Husemann, Mindaugas Rasiukevicius

• Add support for FreeBSD package format, RPM and Debian packages(if time allows) to pkgsrc
• Student: Anton Panev
• Mentor: Jeremy C. Reed

• Apropos replacement based on mandoc and SQLite's FTS
• Student: Abhinav Upadhyay
• Mentor: Jörg Sonnenberger

• In-kernel implementation of posix_spawn
• Student: Charles Zhang
• Mentor: Martin Husemann

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