Spend a great "Summer of Code" with NetBSD!

This announcement is for anyone interested to implement a Google Summer of Code project with NetBSD.

April 9th 2010 (19:00 UTC) will be the deadline for student applications.

In case you never have heard about "Summer of Code" (GSoC) before, Google provides a website with detailed information:

• http://socghop.appspot.com

You can also watch a video about why it is cool to be part of the GSoC community and what is necessary to participate:

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBRRR0BQyz0&feature=player_embedded#

If you want to apply you can suggest your own projects or pick up projects form the "NetBSD Summer of Code Projects" webpage:

• http://netbsd.org/contrib/soc-application.html
• http://netbsd.org/contrib/soc-projects.html

The NetBSD mentors of this year's GSoC have also presented some of their projects on the NetBSD mailinglists:

• Curses testframe
• Rewrite pkg_comp
• Improving sysinst, the NetBSD installer
• Improved Automounter Support
• Extending the libintl implementation with newer gettext features
• Full multibyte support
• Implement file system flags to scrub data blocks before deletion
• Optimize and speed-up ATF
• ATF: Reorganize ATF and improve modularity
• ifconfig on-line help & auto-completion
• Radiotap applications

We look forward to get you aboard with GSoC 2010!